FRED and qtFRED no longer overwrite a hand-edited arrival cue on the wing
containing the player start. The cue is editable when the wing has multiple
waves (where it governs the arrival of subsequent waves) and read-only
otherwise. Waves and threshold are now editable for the single-player
player wing, while the arrival delay remains locked; the arrival location
is editable in both editors.
Both error checkers flag a single-wave player wing with a custom cue as a
potential issue, and the engine now warns and aborts the mission load,
rather than tripping an Assert, if the player start ship was not created
at mission start.
Also fix an unguarded read of Ships[Player_start_shipnum] in both editors.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The text labels drawn in the main editor viewport were always rendered at the fixed FONT1 size. Add options to scale the font from 50% to 400%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
- A parse flag to indicate when the mission is being parsed, and a new `ship_class_index()` accessor in the ship registry, both currently unused
- Make the ship registry more robust, especially in FRED: properly update it when ships are renamed or deleted
PR #7082 rearranged the FRED2 menu layout to match qtFRED (see issue #6985),
but some users preferred the previous Editors/Misc layout. This adds a
"Classic menu layout" toggle (under Settings in the current layout, and under
Misc in the classic layout) that swaps the whole menu bar on demand. The
choice is persisted to the registry and reapplied on startup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Due to a long-standing bug, the groups-of-4 argument count check for
send-message-list and send-message-chain never actually worked, so
missions through 25.0 could includes sexps with truncated argument lists
that recovered gracefully at runtime. Now that the check works, don't
punish those missions: introduce SEXP_CHECK_BAD_ARG_COUNT_BENIGN, which
warns but does not prevent the mission from loading.
To make sexp tree validation more robust, check_sexp_syntax now defers
recoverable errors rather than returning them immediately; otherwise
a recoverable error could mask a fatal error deeper in the tree.
Also fix a stale-variable bug in FRED's fred_check_sexp that could
produce a bogus empty dialog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
* Fix C4709 Warnings on latest VS
* more
* suppress false positive
* Switch to using any/none_of
* Address Feedback
* Fix Line endings?
* Fix commits and strip out flag_combinator
* more fixes
* nolint
Accessible from the Tools menu, this dialog lists all ships or all
wings (selectable via a drop-down) and provides Move to top/up/down/
bottom buttons. Moves are applied immediately via the slot
reassignment utilities in missioneditor/common.h, using adjacent swaps
so the relative order of other entries is preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
If a player ship is changed to a regular ship, be sure that
Player_start_shipnum does not still point to the old ship.
Consolidate the several near-duplicate copies of the "repoint
Player_start_shipnum to a valid player start" logic, in both FRED and
qtFRED, into a single shared helper, ensure_valid_player_start_shipnum()
in missioneditor/common.cpp.
Also add some guards in situations where Player_start_shipnum might
be -1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Several dialogs already null their global at the top of DestroyWindow, but a few do not: briefing, debriefing, event, background, message, cutscene, goal, and Fred_view_wnd. OnClose nulls in those five cover the user-initiated close path, but any teardown that bypasses OnClose leaves a dangling pointer that could be dereferenced.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Implement a spherical-coordinate orbit camera for both the MFC (FRED2)
and Qt (qtFRED) editors, providing intuitive 3D viewport navigation
similar to other 3D editing tools.
Controls:
- Middle mouse drag: orbit rotate around pivot point
- Shift + middle mouse drag: pan the pivot point
- Right mouse drag: orbit rotate (alternative to middle mouse)
- Shift + right mouse drag: pan (alternative to shift + middle mouse)
- Mouse wheel: zoom in/out
- Right click without drag: context menu (preserving existing feature)
Camera pivot selection:
- If an object is selected, orbit around that object
- Otherwise, intersect the camera forward ray with the current grid
plane to find a natural pivot point
- Falls back to grid center if the camera is parallel to the grid
Grid-plane awareness:
- Orbit axes are derived from The_grid->gmatrix using vm_vec_rotate
and vm_vec_unrotate, so the camera orbits correctly on all three
grid planes (XZ, XY, YZ), not just the default XZ plane
- The look-at matrix uses the grid's up vector (uvec) rather than a
hardcoded world-up direction
Robust zoom/pan scaling:
- Zoom uses an exponential formula (powf) so the distance multiplier
is always positive regardless of physics_speed setting (1-500)
- Pan uses a clamped speed factor to avoid excessive movement at high
physics_speed values
State management:
- Keyboard camera movement (process_controls) invalidates orbit state,
so the next mouse drag re-initializes from the current view
- Orbit state is per-viewport in qtFRED (EditorViewport members) and
global in FRED2 (matching existing conventions in each codebase)
Implementation:
- FRED2: orbit math in fredrender.cpp, mouse handlers in fredview.cpp
- qtFRED: orbit math in EditorViewport.cpp, mouse/wheel handlers in
renderwidget.cpp; RenderWindow::event() updated to forward middle
button and wheel events to RenderWidget
Also fix an AND vs OR bug in FRED's process_controls().
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>
A few visual improvements requested on Discord:
1. Use a configurable LOD to draw the outline wireframe, defaulting to LOD 1
2. Draw subsystem names with a dark outline to make them more visible
3. Draw the subsystem boundary boxes with thicker lines
* add wing display names
Adds display name capability for wings, matching the pattern and infrastructure of display names for ships. As in #7234, wing display names take precedence over ship display names, if both are provided; because if ship display names took precedence, a ship would have the same display name in every wave.
All the relevant display locations are handled, including the HUD, escort list, message box, and mission log. Lua API support is provided as well.
Adds full support for both FRED and QtFRED, including the always-save-display-names setting.
Addresses #7189 and the last request from #1730.
* add help text from #7234
Some code refactoring to allow mission titles to be strings of any length. Titles that are too long to actually display (based on string width) will be visibly truncated using `font::force_fit_string`, but the underlying title will not be affected. Multiplayer is still subject to the 31-character length limit, so titles sent over the network will still have characters truncated.
Also removes some redundant calls to `gr_get_string_size`, since `font::force_fit_string` returns the fitted string width.
Convert `debriefing_editor_dlg` from a modal stack-allocated dialog to a modeless heap-allocated dialog, matching the pattern of the briefing editor. Update FRED infrastructure accordingly.
Add `focus_sexp(int node)` to `debriefing_editor_dlg`, mirroring the existing method in `briefing_editor_dlg`. Fix both `focus_sexp()` implementations to search all team debriefings/briefings instead of only the currently selected team, so nodes in non-zero teams are found correctly in TVT missions.
Fix `debriefing set_modified()` calls to only set the flag if the debriefing data actually changes, rather than every time the editor was opened.
Testing in FotG exposed a bug that dates back to retail. During mission parsing, arrival and departure anchors were represented by indexes into `Parse_names`. After parsing, they were converted to ship indexes -- but only in FRED. Since some functions are shared between FRED and FS2, this can produce inconsistent results, which can be hard to detect since parse indexes and ship indexes are usually the same.
This refactors arrival and departure anchors to be represented by ship registry indexes in all cases. It also adds conversion functions for the benefit of FRED and QtFRED since those dialogs were designed with ship indexes in mind.
1. The `waypoint_stuff_name` function used the wrong length when building the waypoint name, causing the number to be written past the end of the string in most cases. Not sure how this escaped testing.
2. Change two Assertions, which had no effect due to the comma operator, to Errors, which match their counterparts in their respective functions.
3. Make `internal_error` consistent between the campaign editor, the mission editor, and qtFRED, and prune an unnecessary string copy.
Follow-up to #7104. Fixes#7254.
Fix a crash caused in part by some missing UI calls in FRED2 and in part by subtle object life cycle issues. Depending on whether FRED receives the focus during mission load (which can happen if the autosave dialog appears) it could access props that were in the process of being cleaned up but were still referenced. This isn't specifically a props issue; it could happen to any FSO object stored in a SCP_vector, since the vector can be cleared.
The quick mission init is to prevent a whole bunch of unnecessary and risky processing during a transient loading state, but it has the nice side effect of making mission list loading noticeably faster.
* First draft of prop object type
* Add prop editor dialog in FRED
* prop sexps
* lua table prop support
* lab support
* lua mission access to props
* prop collision support
* use std::optional so the object->instance id is always valid
* allow props to block suns
* minor cleanup and remove arbitrary limit. Still limited to 500 objects.
* Sort props by category
* cleanup
* implement collision hooks
* parse prop flags and further ensure props are inited and closed correctly
* Add Cyborg's multi suggestions
* fix missing header
* add props to empty slots if available
* add multi signature
* fix rebase issues and match collisions to the new multithread style
* appease Clang the Conquerer
* save/parse mission prop classes by name
* Clean up comments and finish TODOs
* fix string errors
* clang wants this to be static now
* address feedback
* address feedback
* Use model num from prop info instead
* merge prop and ship collision group sexps together
* fix rebase bug
* address feedback
* fix name shadowing
* ship heavy submodel
* clang
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Co-authored-by: Asteroth <[email protected]>
It's possible for ships to be designated as arrival or departure anchors when these ships do not actually have hangar bays. This cannot normally happen in the interface but can happen when missions are edited in a text editor, or are imported, or the modpack is changed. So add warnings and checks for this situation.
* Back in business hopefully
* Refactor
* Resolve CI issue in aigoals.cpp
* Updating order.cpp
* Whoops
* Updated objecttypes.tbl to incorporate attack ship type
* Fix clang-tidy issue
* Forgot one other instance
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Co-authored-by: wookieejedi <[email protected]>
When a mission is loaded in FRED the "immobile" flag is migrated to "don't-change-position" and "don't-change-orientation". So, notify the FREDder that this is happening, and add checks to the "potential issues" checker to guard against mixing the old and new flags.
Follow-up to #6304. Resolves#6489.
Takes the command-line arguments used to launch FRED and reuses them to launch FSO.
As part of this, slightly refactor the `cmdline_print_cmdline_multi()` function so that it calls a new `cmdline_build_string()` function.
Add options to the Edit menu to lock and unlock objects. Locked objects cannot be selected or dragged. They can still be edited in the various editors (e.g. Ships, Objects) but not in the main viewing area.
Also add the Selection Lock option to the Edit menu. It was previously available in the toolbar but this provides another way to access it.
When the Show Waypoints option is toggled, the marking was not updated as it was for the other options (Show Ships, Show Starts, Show IFFs). Fix this by calling `correct_marking()`.
To enforce type safety for arrival and departure locations, this converts them to enum classes. Various casts are added when appropriate to convert between the indexed and enum values.
Add a routine to the sexp syntax checker that also checks for potential issues. These are not definitive errors, but situations that might trip up mission designers. Currently there is one issue checked: the destruction of a wing that has multiple waves and arrives from a docking bay.
1. Fix the item ID indexing on the popup submenus and make sure they correspond with the ship dropdown menu
2. Remove the "player start" popup menu option as it has very limited utility and was already removed in qtFRED
3. Reduce a bunch of casts by using more appropriate popup menu types
4. Actually place an object in the mission when one is chosen from the popup menu
Also:
1. Remove the `Default_player_model` variable as its use is redundant
2. Remove unused arguments of `create_player()`
Add "tactical" versions of disable and disarm goals which only perform the specific task without implying anything else. The target ship is not protected and attack goals are not cleared from other ships.
There is also a new AI profiles flag to make this the default hud squad message command instead of the classic disable/disarm.
