[k19]

Hello i'm new to the FRED thing but i was playing around with it and i made my fighter arrival in the fighter bays and depart in the fighter bays how can i do this to my fighter?

[Colonol Dekker]

If you've already done it why are you asking?................

[k19]

i can't make my fighter go into the fighter bay and depart without jumping out like the other ones

[Shade]

To do that, use an event that ends the mission when the player comes within a certain distance of the fighterbay subsystem. Thus:

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[k19]

ah, thank you for your help

[k19]

hang on where in the events drop down list do you get distance-ship-subsystem and end-mission

[Shade]

The distance-ship-subsystem operator is in the Status category, end-mission is in the Change->Mission and Campaign category. And while we're at it, the less-than operator is in the Logical category.

A tip: Just once, start the FSO launcher and go to the Dev Tool category under the Features tab. There, check the box next to "Output SEXPs to sexps.html" and click Run. That will give you a list of all supported SEXPs and where to find them, in HTML format. Remember to uncheck it afterwards.

[k19]

FSO don't work on my FRED so will it affect my menus? also for the distance-ship-subsystem and end-mission do u need a different FRED version. 

[karajorma]

Yes. Both SEXPs are FS2_Open only.

Why doesn't FSO work for you? It only won't work on very old PCs.

[Stormkeeper]

Ooo. I was about to ask this too. Thanx K19!

On a sidenote, how do i make a ship arrive from the fighterbay? Precise placement?

[karajorma]

Change the arrival cue from hyperspace to the appropriate launch bay.

[k19]

my computer is fairy new but FSO does work because every thime i open it a error message comes up

[karajorma]

Run it again and tell me what the error is.

[k19]

the error is: Fred2_open has encountered a problem and needs to close. we are sorry for the inconvenience. now theirs one before that do you what me to type that open up to.

[karajorma]

Yes. Also run the debug build and post the contents of the fs2_Open.log you'll find in your data folder.

[k19]

which folder?

[karajorma]

Freespace2\Data

[k19]

sorry in which folder in data

[karajorma]

No folder. It should actually be in Data. You won't see it until you've actually run the debug build.

[k19]

i don't understand how do you run the debug build?