modding

One of the most excellent elements of the game Freespace 2 Open (or of course the original, Volition's Freespace 2) is the capacity for modifications. It is possible to develop an entire campaign of missions which string together into a story, to modify or create ships and weapons, to script FS2 in Lua, and to do any number of other fairly amazing things with it. But by far the most common is to create new missions. In this article I'll give a brief explanation of some details of modding that I learned developing my first non-simple mission.