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Hi all, as you can see, i am a rookie with teh fred editor. Now i have a question: Wth aren´t my ships firing any beam weapons at the enemy?! I tried different positions and ranges, but i cant manage it
HEEEEEEEELP!!

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ok we're not going to yell... just read the walkthrough and do it, and you will soon master FRED... including beams...

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The problem is - I tried the trigger and it worked with 1 ship (it was the NTF Iceni) but NEVER again. I amde 1 for every ship, but only the Iceni is firing

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Wohu! The Hatshepsut is also firing 1 or 2 beams... Maybe its a kind of bug O_o
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I manged to fire 2 deimos class corvettes on each other...
But after the 5th or 6th beam i get a error message...

Freespace2 crashes and i get a btw...
Same happens to the editor if i keep it open till testing.
strange
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Sorry for my bad english but i cant formulate that problem in a good language because at school we learn more to speak english (i wonder when i had to write my last english letter...) so please understand my informal posts...

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Since I'm in a good mood

[URL=http://home.att.net/~clay.h/fs2/beamfaq.htm]ZylonBane's Beam FAQ[/URL]

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Link is broken -_~

And i still get erroreos massages while testing my missions (not only the one with the beam)...

I will try a reinstall.

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What kind of error messages? Do you have any MODs installed?

Beam-free has to be the easiest trigger of all. If a ship is present and the beam-free trigger is activated, the ship is considered beam-free and will use beams to attack the enemy. If the ship is not present and beam-free is triggered, it will be not be beam freed when the ship does arrive. If there is no beam-free trigger, the ship will not fire beams at all. The fire-beam trigger relies on the turret be a beam turret (ie. it has to have a beam on it) and it is best used to script a beam fire sequence rather than setup a beam fire for a general purpose engagement.

Take a look at another mission with beams in it to learn how to do this effectively.

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Link is broken -_~

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Now that is odd. It was up when I gave you the link.

The really weird thing is that upon answering this question I decided that ZB's beam FAQ was too valuable a resource to risk losing should it ever go down and I decided to back up a copy myself

Two years I've known about the site and I decide to back it up the day it goes down

Anyway I suspect that your problem requires a reinstall rather than being due to something you're doing wrong so ZB's FAQ wouldn't have helped you anyway.

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Well, at last, i got it.
I reinstalled FS2 and now everything is working fine ^^

Just small Probs with Satanas beams, but i think that can be fixed by trigger.
Sry for taking your time

btw, what kind of mods and custom campaings can you recomment for me?

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Well the Beam Reference appears to be back up again so it was probably a temporary glitch.

As for campaigns I suggest you look [URL=http://fs2.kissifrot.com/index.php]here[/URL] to see what's available

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thx

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