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#$@$#@$ FRED

1 by Singh
SG Commodore
Ok, now this is just ridiculous.

Dont you hate it when you spend not hours or days, but WEEKS on a mission and have it inches close to perfection - when all of a sudden something W#O$(@$#$ in FRED makes it totally NOT work in FS2 at all?

I was near completion for my NTB intro mission (which just happens to be a BoE mission that took AGES to fix up) when all of a sudden, it starts to crash in FS2 for absolutely NO particular reason after my fighters/bombers arrive, even though it was working MINUTES before. The only changes in FRED were additions to briefing and debriefing text, and now it refuses to work no matter WHAT i do!!

Just e#$@#@$ great. I am beggining to NOT like fred very much :x

3 by Singh
SG Commodore
Shinobi wrote:That sucks. Use FRED 3.5.5 as the more recent ones corrupt missions. Have you tried to reverse your changes to prior corruption?
The problem is I use some of the SexPs associated with the newer FRED, and cross-compatibility isn't exactly an option either.

Thing is, im not even sure if its a FRED problem either, since FS2 could be causing the error (it gives it to me in both 240822 and the new Taylor build :( ) or something wrong with the .tbls........I don't think I can reverse it back, since i made several attempts to fix the error, so the .bak file might just have it by now :(

6 by Grimloq
Elite SG Admiral
gawd, i hate when that happens... i did something like that ,'cept for D2. D2 missions are tenfold easier than D3 ones, but still... about 6 weeks, and it was perfect. then, my computer decides that its an 'unused file' and deletes it :x

7 by Black Wolf
Ascended SG Graduate
If you've spent weeks making the mission, then spending several hours going through the .fs2 file in notepad manually looking for the error shouldn't be such a problem - I strongly suggest you do that if the .bak doesn't work.
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12 by Hippo
Ascended SG Legend
Pff... I never used variables... They were too buggy... I might again someday, but i always found it really reliable (though lengthy) to use a lot of or's and and's and and-in-sequences's for stuff where like, shipyard-completed used the variables for the argo's... I SEXP'd it :p

15 by Hippo
Ascended SG Legend
Yeah, they're indeed simple, i just usually prefer to use sexp's, since if they're done correctly, they can be more dynamic (albeit really hard to debug)...
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