[Goober5000]

Here's something that's been on people's request lists ever since... well... a long time ago. It is now possible to fly in a different wing than Alpha, Beta, or Gamma.

Now I know people have figured out tricks to fly in any ship from Alpha 1 through Epsilon 6, but this is different.  Now you can fly in any fighter from any wing at all. FRED will let you specify the wings that appear in the loadout screen as well as the wings that appear on your HUD - and they don't even have to be the same wings.

This feature is now in CVS and can be found in the FRED and FS2 builds in the 20041215 thread in the Recent Builds forum.

Screenshot attached...

[Drew]

hot diggity

[T-Man]

Cool, you should be proud of yourselves. I'm sure a lot of mission designers out there are jumping for you right now...i know i am !

[Roanoke]

you sir, are a god.

[MetalDestroyer]

Yeah , So i'll be in the Rogue Squadron

[Lynx]

Yay!

[Taristin]

*shuffles off to attempt a HoL mission*

[Ransom]

Awesome! I was just thinking about this being implemented, it's exactly what I needed.

[JR2000Z]

Tehe. Now I get to be Omega 4.

[karajorma]

Now someone must make a mission/campaign about Kappa 3 lost in the nebula

[Trivial Psychic]

I guess we now need a scrollbar at the bottom of the ship select and loadout screen, so one can outfit the 10 or so friendly wings that might be in mission.  I'm guessing that the system employed in this build only allows the display of 3 wings, starting from Alpha (if there is one) and moving down.  Great addition BTW.  I might even use this.  Is this build based on the fixes implimented in the latest 3.6.5 beta?

[FireCrack]

Hmm, we need the greeke letters of the wings displayed by the names for coolness.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
I guess we now need a scrollbar at the bottom of the ship select and loadout screen, so one can outfit the 10 or so friendly wings that might be in mission.  I'm guessing that the system employed in this build only allows the display of 3 wings, starting from Alpha (if there is one) and moving down.

No.  Look at the screenshot.  It replaces Alpha, Beta, and Gamma with any wings you choose.  So you could have Sigma, Tau, and Upsilon (for the not-so-glamorous squadrons) or even Red, Blue, and Grey (for the SWC).

Is this build based on the fixes implimented in the latest 3.6.5 beta?

It should be.  If it's in CVS, it's in this build.

[NGTM-1R]

How long can the wing names be, exactly?

[Goober5000]

Up to 32 characters.

[Grimloq]

NICE!!! :O

[Bobboau]

so
"big'ol fancy wing of ubber doom"
would work?

[Goober5000]

Yup, except it might crowd out the other wings on the loadout screen.

You'd gain an extra letter by spelling "uber" correctly. Unless you meant to say "utter"?

EDIT: Actually, strike that.  The ship name ("Alpha 1") can be 32 characters at most.  So the wing name must be slightly shorter.

[Goober5000]

Voila...

The only problem with long wing names is that you have to make sure they don't collide with the wing next to them. If this mission had two BOWOUDs, their wing names would overlap.

[Bobboau]

oh my god...