hello all

#1
Hi all,
This mod looks cool, fighting as the shivans, man that should had been an option in FS2, I hate not been able to fly all the shivan fighters.
in Fred I've made a few blank missions with shivan cruisers on ya side as ya battle other shivans, very kool, :)
anyway I'm currently learning Fred learning how to build a mission, it's a mission that you build up, it's in the Fred 2 help file, called "Shipyard (completed)", anyway after that I'll build a few shivan vs shivan missions, unfortunatly the player has to be a MARA (terran) fighter, but at least I can have the shivan capital ships on ya side along with other fighters.
anyway once I get a good grip of FRED 2, I hear your mod is in need of Freders I belive you call'em, so I got plently of time on my hands and I love the idea of playing as the shivans. i'll inquire when I'm ready and we'll see what happens, :).
anyway good luck with it, looking great.

GRASS!

#2
That'd be great! :)

First of all, once you get the hang of standard FRED, you might want to check out the SCP. There's a bunch more SEXPs and stuff that make a lot more complex missions possible.

SCP Forums

HT is kinda in deep-freeze at the moment as I'm trying to find inspiration to get my ass of the floor and work with FRED. I'm really not that great of a FREDer and that's why I need help. :)

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#3
yea already posting at those forums, got alot of help on the more harder areas of fred, namely the scripting parts like with the events, it's not hard just alittle confusing at times.
however FRED is alot easier then most other editors in other games that I've worked with.

GRASS!

#5
And feel free to send any missions my way, always up for a few minutes of fun

Ya know, I'm starting to think you do grass :lol:
Grass?, lol nah man I don't do any kinda grass, it's just the online name I choose, it was just a combination of words. your not the first to inquire about my online name, lol.

GRASS!

#6
yea already posting at those forums, got alot of help on the more harder areas of fred, namely the scripting parts like with the events, it's not hard just alittle confusing at times.
however FRED is alot easier then most other editors in other games that I've worked with.

GRASS!
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Do I remember helping you on HLP, or was that someone else? Good choice registering here - we need more Aussies. You, me and VA're about it I think.
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#7
Great. We need a staff for Hidden Terror. And I must say, we have probably one of the best background plots you'll find in any campaigns 8)

This campaign has lots, lots of potential.

But you'll need to do some really unconventional FREDding for our missions :wink:
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#10
well My first mission after I get this next tutorial finished that Darkage made, will be shivan Vs Shivan, here's the backstory and mission:
you play as a Shivan pilot who is in a Shivan element no longer a part of the main collective, their task is to steal and influeance and hopefully eventually take over and forge peace with their enemy's and establish a new collective. over the past few months they've been able to keep themselves from been noticed as traitors, and this must remain that way.
a rare oppitunty has arrived, a SJ Samathas class is currently under repair in the shivan space in the stella system, your job is to steal it and keep the entire fleet from knowing your taking it. First objective is to escort transports that have assumed the identity of crew transports that were enroute to outpost. your next objective is to silence the outpost, destroy the nearby Shivan Comm Node. then deal with the outposts guards as your forces arrive, a SD Demon and two Lilith warships will be on ur side, your force is composed of FS1 shivan fighters cept alpha wing, which of course hafta be those Mara (terrans), blah!
the outpost is guarded by a SD Ravana class two Murlock corvettes and two Rakasha class, and of course fighters and bombers, there also happens to be a SD Lucifer class docked in bay 2, but no it's invincable shield is not online, but it will attack eventually, so be fast, :)
anyway your goal is to escort the SJ Samathas to the jumpnode without it been retaken over by endless amounts of transports trying to dock. this won't be easy.

Do yas think thats alittle too much for a first mission?
always liked to see a shivan vs Shivan mission.

GRASS!

#12
A Streetcar Named Samantha...STELLAAAAAAAH!!!!

It's Sathannas BTW :D
bah I can never get the spelling right, lol.
and well seems good enough name for a solar system, I guess.

GRASS!

#14
hehe, so guys, apart from the spelling mistakes, what ya think of the mission and story, you guys don't think it's too heavy for a beginner to FRED do yas?

GRASS!

#15
To be honest, I think it might be. There's a lot of ships in there - that's a lot of variables to maintain in your head, and a lot of work if you want to wring any kind of cohesion out of it. I personally try to avoid massive complex missions like that because they are quite hard to FRED. For a first serious mission, I'd really reccomend something a bit simpler - perhaps defending a capital ship against bombers, or even a simple furball around a pair of cruisers. These're easy missions that'll get you grounded in FRED before you get into something as complex as the above.

By the way - check out this

http://lektor.metal.agh.edu.pl/~dacho/f ... vans_2.zip

That's the Dreadful Shivans mod - it's very simplistic, only changing the flags in the ships.tbl as far as I can see, but it'll let you fly Shivan ships. I think there's a set of interface art - if not it's simple enough to make, and I'm sure the HT staff have done that much at least.
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