[IPMASTER]

Would be nice to have a feature or something for testing missions. Maybe a button in FRED called "TEST MISSION" that launches the mission you are working on, without the need of going of going to the tech room and selecting it.

[Boomer20]

Would be nice to have a feature or something for testing missions. Maybe a button in FRED called "TEST MISSION" that launches the mission you are working on, without the need of going of going to the tech room and selecting it.

IIRC there was a test button in the original FRED2 but it never really worked properly (for me anyway).
Easiest way to do it is you have FRED2 and the game running at the same time, test run your mission and alt+tab to FRED. Or you play Freespace in window mode. However if you have the game running when you create a new mission it won't come up until you restart the game. I've always done the alt+tab approach and never really found it that time consuming.

[Droid803]

I worked for retail. Not for FSO since there's all those launcher options now.

[karajorma]

It should still work. Try it and mantis it if it doesn't.

Also as to your second part, that is one sort of idea I have for the newsletter. I'm thinking every month it'll rotate between a campaign review, FREDding tips/tutorial, and an interview with awesomely cool people.

I've been toying with the idea of writing some quick tutorials/tips for the newsletter at some point but I've been rather busy of late. Hopefully I'll have time in the near future.

[IPMASTER]

Okey, the Alt-tab idea have been my first one since the beginning, and if it isnt any other way to have a button like that. I would stay with that. Also -and i think is kinda a dream- would be awesome to have a "live editor", like you change anything in fred, and it appear "live" into the mission. 

[niffiwan]

It's only a partial solution, but you can press "g" from the FSO mainhall to rerun the last mission you played. I find this very useful when bughunting, it also works for the simple missions I've created in a text editor.

[Boomer20]

It's only a partial solution, but you can press "g" from the FSO mainhall to rerun the last mission you played.

This I did not know and will make mission testing that little bit quicker. However i just tried it and it doesn't seem to work for me.

It should still work. Try it and mantis it if it doesn't.

Just tried it and you can get into Freespace straight from FRED no problems so no worries there.

[niffiwan]

It's only a partial solution, but you can press "g" from the FSO mainhall to rerun the last mission you played.

This I did not know and will make mission testing that little bit quicker. However i just tried it and it doesn't seem to work for me.

Hmmm... are you using a release or debug build?  I'm practically always running debug these days...

[Boomer20]

That would explain it. Just tried it on debug build and it works there, just not on the release build. Cheers for that.
What are all the statistics up at the top right. (I don't think there too important for someone like me but I'm curious.)

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm out of date. By that I mean due to real life I am simply not as up to speed with the scps bigger additions to Fred and ship features. I could mod retail happily. I just haven't got the motivation to get 100% au'fay(sp?) with the fancy stuff.... Scripts in particular are alien and scary.

[niffiwan]

What are all the statistics up at the top right. (I don't think there too important for someone like me but I'm curious.)

They are various memory related stats, like RAM in use by models, textures, the video card, and I'm not sure about the two others

[karajorma]

That would explain it. Just tried it on debug build and it works there, just not on the release build. Cheers for that.
What are all the statistics up at the top right. (I don't think there too important for someone like me but I'm curious.)

Would anyone mind if we fixed that to work in non-debug builds?

[mjn.mixael]

That would explain it. Just tried it on debug build and it works there, just not on the release build. Cheers for that.
What are all the statistics up at the top right. (I don't think there too important for someone like me but I'm curious.)

Would anyone mind if we fixed that to work in non-debug builds?

Yusplz

[Lorric]

  from me, I'd certainly find that useful.

[Boomer20]

It would be very handy indeed.

Question: Although I'm not there yet, when I have finished creating my campaign, what would be the approach to asking for beta-testers?

[Axem]

What usually works is making a thread with a preview of sorts and asking for play-testers. Pretty pics are a must! You need to draw in beta testers just like an audience! (Of course some people will beta test anything!)

[Mito [PL]]

How about making a capship waypoint flight simulator and put it in FRED? It should simulate movement of a ship through the waypoint path. You just choose which ship(s) to move, which paths to use and speed to set a limit. When you press "start" the ship(s) move(s) on its path. "Pause" would pause (), "Stop" would return the ship to its previous position.

Just a thought

[IPMASTER]

How about making a capship waypoint flight simulator and put it in FRED? It should simulate movement of a ship through the waypoint path. You just choose which ship(s) to move, which paths to use and speed to set a limit. When you press "start" the ship(s) move(s) on its path. "Pause" would pause (), "Stop" would return the ship to its previous position.

Just a thought

Actually a nice idea. Like a "preview" show.