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Click [[Portal:FRED|here]] to go back to the main FRED portal page. :This article deals with the process of getting started with FRED, from the moment you decide to create your own mission to the point of maki

*Changing the order of events in FRED is not recommended. Such a move will confuse the game engine, and weird mis == Using FRED with mods ==

...might be an idea to have a little list of some of the more common FREDding mistakes I've seen. [[Category:FRED Mistakes]]

...lly and you'll discover the error. It's commonplace, but people learn from mistakes. .... If needed, sit ten, twenty or even thirty minutes looking at the grid of FRED while thinking into the possible ways of adding new items.

...larger) battling each other across a space teeming with fighters. An old [[FRED and the Battle of Endor Syndrome|Volition Watch article]] advised FREDders ...sers and their fighter wings fighting it out, one can afford to make a few mistakes or to simply "gloss over" details; likely it won't be noticed.

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[[Category:FRED Mistakes]]

...uld attempt to release only quality products when they were the designers. FRED, the FreeSpace Mission editor, allows ordinary gamers to use many of the sa ...perhaps, for many cases, but too often the wonderful and unique options of FRED lie untapped and unused.

[[image:Spelling.jpg|thumb|right|420px|How many mistakes can you find?]] ...atical standards. Missions that are teeming with spelling (and/or grammar) mistakes look unprofessional and distracts some players' attention from the "fun" pa

...sk themselves before submitting a mission for community revision (or the [[FRED Academy]]). For more experienced mission designers, this list is for remind **'''Note:''' Sometimes FRED mixes up the values. If there is any ship that arrives with everything at 0

...g). If no animation is set in the Command Briefing Editor in [[Portal:FRED|FRED]], the default animated [[Galactic Terran Alliance|GTA]] (''FreeSpace 1'') ...Select Mode (clicking on the cursor icon in the upper-left corner of your FRED window). Another safe way of selecting any ship is the Ship Select Window (

No one should be ashamed of making mistakes, so don't flame. ...d to alter mission files, and don't forget to open the modified mission in FRED to verify if the new background is properly set and/or to check if your Not

...ose entirely. This article will merely draw your attention to some typical mistakes non-native speakers make. ...ers are especially sensitive to grammatical correctness. Typical syntactic mistakes (like malformed questions like "Are you deploy more fighters?") are easily

...al acclaim. Dawn of Sol's weaknesses involve repetitive gameplay, FREDding mistakes, and uneven difficulty of its missions. ...eam decided to pick up DoS and remake it. Currently on-going work involves FRED-ing, story-telling and mod pack improving. It aims at using the original Do

First lets set up a super simple mission! Open up FRED and make something like this. ==== Making Mistakes ====

...ign in the Freespace 2 universe. Memorable characters, some revolutionary FRED tricks that created some chilling moments, and compelling antagonists. It =How Can I Avoid Making These Mistakes? How Can I Do It Right?=

Opening the mission in FRED and looking at relevant mission events and arrival/departure cues usually r But the mission doesn't necessarily end up in an infinite loop if such mistakes are made. Sometimes two events occur at the same time that are not supposed