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
- Counting with variables
- 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)
- Messages
- 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
Hints for mission types
- Campaign endings and the credits mission
- Capture Missions
- Disarming ships
- Escort Missions
- Strike Missions