FR: Please permit more granular background adjustments in Fred 2

[MoerasGrizzly]

BP skyboxes are build around sometimes very specific star placement (as seen with the earth skybox here - the eclipsed sun in the skybox is where the actual sun is supposed to go), but FRED2's "single digits along 2 axis" method of placing suns is not granular enough to allow for that.

Previous versions of Fred did allow for more precise adjustments since they did let you adjust a third axis, but I guess that's gone now.

[wookieejedi]

Getting FRED to not use integers for the background UI is something that could be considered for QTFRED possibly? FSO does use actual floats for the position, so in the meantime, you could either set the position in the mission file via text editor or you could set the position via custom sexp/script :)

[notimaginative]

Pretty sure this is a result of #4258.

But as wookieejedi suggested, it's possible that setting fractional values for pitch and heading is your only real workaround at the moment. Though I would suggest a sexp/script for that, as opposed to hand editing the mission, to avoid FRED2 possibly resetting those values to integers.

[Goober5000]

It would be fairly straightforward to change the delta to, say, 0.1 or 0.01. It would also be possible to modify the input boxes to not enforce integer values. The question is, how granular do you want this to be?

Spitballing, I assume a delta of 0.1 combined with allowing manually typed values should satisfy this request.

[MoerasGrizzly]

It would be fairly straightforward to change the delta to, say, 0.1 or 0.01. It would also be possible to modify the input boxes to not enforce integer values. The question is, how granular do you want this to be?

Spitballing, I assume a delta of 0.1 combined with allowing manually typed values should satisfy this request.

That would work for me!
You could also make it so that you´d do the normal increments of '1', and then have more granular increments when holding the shift (or control, or both!) button when pressing those up and down arrows.