# QtFRED Help

Welcome to QtFRED - the mission editor for FreeSpace Open. This help covers the basics of mission creation, the editor dialogs, and advanced topics.

## Getting Started

- Quickstart — create your first flyable mission in a few minutes.
- Fundamentals — build a complete mission with events, waypoints, messages, and a briefing.

## Concepts

- AI
- Campaign Flow
- IFF & Teams
- Messages
- SEXPs — symbolic expressions: the scripting backbone of every FreeSpace mission.

## General

- Layer Manager
- Preferences
- Scene Browser
- Toolbars
- Viewport

## Dialogs

### Environment

- Asteroid Editor
- Background Editor
- Volumetric Nebula

### Mission

- Mission Cutscenes
- Mission Events
- Mission Goals
- Mission Specs
- Mission Statistics
- Reinforcements
- Shield System
- Team Loadout
- Variables & Containers

### Narrative

- Briefing Editor
- Campaign Editor
- Command Briefing
- Debriefing
- Fiction Viewer

### Objects

- Form Wing
- Jump Node Editor
- Object Orientation
- Prop Editor
- Ship Editor
- Waypoint Editor
- Wing Editor

### Tools

- Calculate Relative Coordinates
- Error Checker
- Global Ship Flags
- Music Player
- Voice Acting Manager
- Waypoint Path Generator