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Offline Strygon

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What is Fiction Viewer?
I've stumbled across that thing multiple times in FRED now. Having never seen it in vanilla FS2, I have several questions about it.

-What is the Fiction Viewer?
-What is the purpose of the Fiction Viewer?
-How can I use it?
Makes missions sometimes.
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[21:34] MP-Ryan: Why on earth would you Google this
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[06:46] Strigon: how big is a mini-campaign again?
[06:46] Asteroth: smaller than a campaign
[06:47 ]Strigon: thanks

[05:56] Strigon: If I had to take a shot for each time I randomly decided to change the UI sounds, I'd have died of alcohol poisoning by now

[17:36] qazwsxal: time to have some fun
[17:41] z64555: VC++5 is not my idea of fun

[EatThePath] do your missiles do anything absurd?
[Strigon] describe absurd
[Strigon] the entire mod is absurd

 
Re: What is Fiction Viewer?
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-What is the Fiction Viewer?
The fiction viewer allows you to put another piece of plot (in form of a txt file) in front of your mission. Depending on how you structure the plot you can add things to the story (for example give addontional info to the player). If some apparently unimportant artifact is discover in some border system which is going to be important for the further plot, or what command is talking about in the background, yet the chance that the player is informed about this in a normal CB is near 0.

The structure of the mission is then
-Fiction
-CB
-Briefing

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-How can I use it?
put a file (txt only) into the Data/Fiction folder. Than go to the the editor in FRED, enter the filename (test.txt).

Here's the wiki article: https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Fiction_Viewer

 

Offline Strygon

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  • So long, and thanks for all the fish!
    • Steam
Re: What is Fiction Viewer?
Thank you.
Makes missions sometimes.
Finished Projects: Operation: Cloak and Dagger

Current Projects: Scrolls Part 2 (FREDding), Dimensional Eclipse (Art),
The First Contact War, GTDr Amazon HTL

[23:22] strypolygon: andrew
[23:22] strypolygon: i have one favor to ask of you
[23:22] strypolygon: never try speaking german again
[23:23] Andrewofdoom: No.

[18:50] 島風改八百三: the duck has multipli
[18:50] 島風改八百三: many duck
[18:50] 島風改八百三: left side
[18:50] 島風改八百三: even side
[18:50] 島風改八百三: handle it

[21:34] MP-Ryan: Why on earth would you Google this
[21:34] The_E: why would you not

[06:46] Strigon: how big is a mini-campaign again?
[06:46] Asteroth: smaller than a campaign
[06:47 ]Strigon: thanks

[05:56] Strigon: If I had to take a shot for each time I randomly decided to change the UI sounds, I'd have died of alcohol poisoning by now

[17:36] qazwsxal: time to have some fun
[17:41] z64555: VC++5 is not my idea of fun

[EatThePath] do your missiles do anything absurd?
[Strigon] describe absurd
[Strigon] the entire mod is absurd

 

Offline 0rph3u5

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Re: What is Fiction Viewer?
It's in the wiki article but it bears repeating: You need additional interface files for it to work correctly.
"As you sought to steal a kingdom for yourself, so must you do again, a thousand times over. For a theft, a true theft, must be practiced to be earned." - The terms of Nyrissa's curse, Pathfinder: Kingmaker

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"...because they are not Dragons."

 
Re: What is Fiction Viewer?
The needed files are part of the MVPs now. Not sure if they have been since the MVP2014, but I think they were already included back then.

 

Offline HLD_Prophecy

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Re: What is Fiction Viewer?
The needed files are now included in mvps, yes. Custom fiction viewer intefaces are also possible and look cool too!

It takes some work to set up but I highly recommend taking advantage of the fiction viewer. Even in a mod with all retail assets a little fiction viewer use can go a long way. There's a reason why some community members set it up.  ;)