[ethaninja]

Hey guys, newbieninja here again with yet another newbie (probably dumb) question.

So I was following a FRED tutorial down to the teeth and everything worked fine, however I've put my maps in both maps and missions folder and I can't seem to find them ingame. I'm probably doing something wrong, but the tutorial doesn't cover people who've installed it on a different drive (at least I don't think it does). Does this mean I'm screwed if my game isn't on C: drive?

If it is, then I will definatly be screwed because I can't put it on my C: drive

[headdie]

welcome to the hlp

firstly you are right to put the mission file in the missions folder.  maps is used to place custom texture maps for ships.

once you have saved the mission launch the game go into the tech room.  in the top left corner of the screen is a small group of options the second one down is for playing one off missions.  when that comes up, I cant remember but I think it defaults to show you campaign missions you have played, in that case in the bottom left is a selector to switch between the active campaign missions and single missions, select that and it should show you your custom mission.

on a side note where are you saving the mission and are you running Freespace Open?
if it is ...\freespace\data\missions this is OK to a certain point but if you start creating lots of missions it can get difficult to keep track of them in the game and if you get into tabling and/or using community content with your missions it could affect the way the game works.  the normal community recommendation is to download FSO if you haven't and create a mod folder, something like ...\freespace\MyMod\data\... mirroring the data folder and use that so you don't accidentally affect how the retail campaigns work

[ethaninja]

welcome to the hlp

firstly you are right to put the mission file in the missions folder.  maps is used to place custom texture maps for ships.

once you have saved the mission launch the game go into the tech room.  in the top left corner of the screen is a small group of options the second one down is for playing one off missions.  when that comes up, I cant remember but I think it defaults to show you campaign missions you have played, in that case in the bottom left is a selector to switch between the active campaign missions and single missions, select that and it should show you your custom mission.

on a side note where are you saving the mission and are you running Freespace Open?
if it is ...\freespace\data\missions this is OK to a certain point but if you start creating lots of missions it can get difficult to keep track of them in the game and if you get into tabling and/or using community content with your missions it could affect the way the game works.  the normal community recommendation is to download FSO if you haven't and create a mod folder, something like ...\freespace\MyMod\data\... mirroring the data folder and use that so you don't accidentally affect how the retail campaigns work

Thanks.

Aye I've only got one mission in there.

I downloaded the mediavps 3.6.12 and I'm using that Launcher thing (It's like a paw icon with the number 2 or Z or something in it, which brings up a frontloader where I can select the MODS and such).

In the Tech Room all I've got is Freespace 2 campaign with a little star icon next to it that does nothing. Can't see anything else =/  It must be right in my face somewhere

once you have saved the mission launch the game go into the tech room.  

Ah yeah I'm a dumbass, I found them. I was going into the wrong room >.< That game has a hard menu to navigate Thanks a bunch man =)