[Lucika]

How can I make an objective to protect a ship? (in fact, an installation)
I've done it with a warship that after it destroyed its target it departed and the objective turned completed but here it won't work.

Well, that really depends on the mission. A simple not-is-destroyed-delay would trigger at the beginning of the mission, which you don't want. Instead you need to link it with another event later on that checks whether the installation is destroyed, such as:

and
-has-arrived-delay
--"Reinforcements"
-not
--is-destroyed-delay
---"Installation"

That would check whether the installation is destroyed at the end of the mission, when reinforcements arrive. Or you could set it to check if Alpha One has departed.

Does it mean a failure then if the installation is destroyed?

[eliex]

If you have set the survival of the installation as a primary objective, then yes.

[Galemp]

The directive will turn red if the installation is destroyed. How you want to work that objective into a 'failure' is up to you and the debriefing editor.

[Lucika]

What is the correct event to make a wingman send a message (name: WTF) when the player gets 1000 meter (or any other distance) near to a corresponding ship (name: X. Y.)?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

when
--> <
----->distance
--------><ship x>
--------><ship y>
----->1000
-->send-message
----><ship sending it or any wingman>
---->high
---->WTF

[Lucika]

when
--> <
----->distance
--------><ship x>
--------><ship y>
----->1000
-->send-message
----><ship sending it or any wingman>
---->high
---->WTF

Thx.

[Lucika]

I have some problems with the send-message-list. How on earth can I make it send more than 1 message? If I add data, then there is no more than an additional wingman.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

You have to add data once for each additional argument required.  So you need to have 4 pieces of data for every message in the list. 

[Lucika]

Whoa! That was fast! Thanks!

[eliex]

Also the add-data/number is quite useful in other arguments.
When I was a novice FREDder with the and/or arguments I put in for more than 2 ships
when-destroyed-delay
-or
--Ship 1
-- or
--Ship 2
-- or
--Ship 3
--Ship 4

With add data you can simply put in:

-or
--Ship 1
--Ship 2
--Ship 3

My ears went red with embarrassment when I realized how easy it was to do that when I found out.  Just a heads-up call.

[nostro_pl]

One more info: in send-message-list delay of the messages is shown in ms, not seconds   

[Lucika]

One more info: in send-message-list delay of the messages is shown in ms, not seconds   

Yup, I realized it pretty fast... Alpha 3 - high - -messagename- - 6000 - Alpha 3 - high ...

[Lucika]

Weirdo.
Error checker: " Special ship out of range for "Alpha" ".

What the hell? 

[karajorma]

I can tell you how to fix this but not what caused it.

Open  the mission in notepad and scroll down until you see #Wings.

You should find this below it.

Code: [Select]

$Name: Alpha
$Waves: 1
$Wave Threshold: 0
$Special Ship: 0 ;! Alpha 1
Special ship must be less than the number of ships in the wing.

[Lucika]

I can tell you how to fix this but not what caused it.

Open  the mission in notepad and scroll down until you see #Wings.

You should find this below it.

Code: [Select]

$Name: Alpha
$Waves: 1
$Wave Threshold: 0
$Special Ship: 0 ;! Alpha 1
Special ship must be less than the number of ships in the wing.

Thx. Caused nothing tho.

[karajorma]

What I mean is I have no idea what you did to get that error. Which means I can't tell you what to do to stop it happening again (or so I can fix it in code).

[Lucika]

Any idea what send-random-message sexp is good for?

[Galemp]

It picks from a  list of messages that you feed it. Think of it as a controlled version of the 'Watch your six!' or 'Good kill!' variations you get from your wingmen.

[Lucika]

It picks from a  list of messages that you feed it. Think of it as a controlled version of the 'Watch your six!' or 'Good kill!' variations you get from your wingmen.

I might create a lottery mission featuring the SJ Lottery. 5 random Shivan messages from 90, none of them are happy.

[Dilmah G]

I am totally gonna use that from now on