[Mancubus]

So how do I make fred 'see' all the stuff added by mediavpS?

Background nebulas, shivan weapon variants etc? I mean when I open Fred2open  (using 3.6.10 now), it doesnt recognize any of that stuff. (literally shows only the retail nebulas in background editor and shows them looking like in retail fred2, crashes after using starfield.pof etc)After copying mediavpfiles to main fs2 directory seemed to do the tric, but caused numerous other problems (like mods not working properly espetially fsport and related) now I would appritiate Idiots explanation...

[General Battuta]

Create a shortcut to FRED2Open and add -mod mediavps to the command line.

[Mancubus]

Thanks. I couldn't get the shortcut part info anywhere...

[Sushi]

Yeah, it's a trick that people in the community tend to know, but isn't very prominently featured anywhere. We should probably fix that... either via a wiki article or maybe a pinned "FRED FAQ" kind of thread.

[redsniper]

We should make FRED use the launcher settings somehow, or add the ability to launch FRED from the launcher or something.

[Galemp]

Cross-platform replacement wxFRED is going to be integrated into the new FSO launcher. It will take a while, though.

[karajorma]

Yeah, it's a trick that people in the community tend to know, but isn't very prominently featured anywhere. We should probably fix that... either via a wiki article or maybe a pinned "FRED FAQ" kind of thread.

It's in my FAQ.

[Shade]

It's also on the "Common FRED Issues" page on the wiki, which I totally did not just update to have that info after reading this thread

[Shivan Hunter]

We should make FRED use the launcher settings somehow, or add the ability to launch FRED from the launcher or something.

According to this mantis entry, this will be appearing in 3.6.12.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, I believe Fury started agitating for that when we had to switch builds a lot during War in Heaven development and had to add the massive command line manually each time:

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C:\Games\FreeSpace2\fred2_open_3_6_13r_INF_SSE2.exe -mod blueplanetSVN,blueplanetSVN\test_bp2,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet2,blueplanetSVN\test_bp,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet,mediavps
This new system will be much easier.

[Shivan Hunter]

EPIC COMMAND LINE IS EPIC

really, I'd just have a shortcut to a program named "FRED_Open", and keep renaming the FRED build to that.

[General Battuta]

That would probably have worked, but if you had to switch to FRED for another mod (also using SVN), it's still a pain.

[Rodo]

frikking long command line

do you really need all those diferent mods?

[General Battuta]

For development, yes.

[Fury]

That's not even the longest one I was using.

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-mod blueplanetSVN\test_bp3,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet3,blueplanetSVN\test_bp2,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet2,blueplanetSVN\test_bp,blueplanetSVN\blueplanet,fsu\MV_Advanced,fsu\MV_Assets,fsu\MV_Effects,fsu\MV_Music,fsu\MV_Core
"fsu" dir is mediavps SVN.