List of FRED-related topics

In this section, you will receive a number of suggestions from beginner level to advanced.

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General topics

• General hints
• Editing a mission in a text editor
• Mission balance
• Setting up a campaign file
• Spellchecking a mission
• Testing
• Typical FREDding mistakes

Specific topics

• 5 easy steps towards your FREDucation
• Autopilot missions
• AWOL debriefing stage
• Background Emporium
• Battle of Endor Syndrome
• Beating the briefing icon bug of FRED_Open
• Briefing
• Bullet time
• Character-Driven Campaigns
• Convoys
• Enemy wing names
• Escort list
• Fiction Viewer
• Forcing Directive Failures
• Friendly wing names
• FRED Command Line Reference
• Hazard Zones
• Improved Team Loadout
• Invisible characters in ship names
• Jump distances
• Making cutscenes (basic)
• Minefields
• Mission Chatter
• Nebula background
• Pirates and Campaign Design
• RTB Directives (Another article with images and an example mission: Return to base directive)
• Variables
• Very simple missions
• Skybox
• Stealthing ships to force target loss
• Texture Replacement
• Upgrading campaigns

SEXP references

• Retail SEXPs
• SCP SEXPs

Hints for mission types

• Campaign endings and the credits mission
• Capture Missions
• Disarming ships
• Escort Missions
• Strike Missions

See also

• FRED Academy
• Plot Development
• References