[Goober5000]

It's now implemented and in CVS.  Just put a dollar sign in front of the variable name.  So if you had a variable called ships_left, you could do

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There are $ships_left ships in the area.which would display as

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There are 5 ships in the area.or however many ships there are.

Note that the dollar sign is consumed along with the variable.  So if you wanted to display the amount of money you had, with a dollar sign in front of it, you'd have to do this:

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You have $$money.which would appear as

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You have $1000.

I don't feel like uploading a build right now, but it's in CVS and it'll be in the next posted CVS build.

[Falcon]

Ahhhhh thats great

Makes messaging shorter............

[karajorma]

Excellent. Gonna bugger up voice acting of course but I've been waiting for this for so long I couldn't care less

[phreak]

Actually it would really be useful for those stealth missions where you have to stay X meters from fighters.  just plop the smallest distance in a variable and use the training-msg sexp

[Gregster2k]

Bugger up voice acting? Pffft. This is a step toward making the voice replace the number with a voice file for that number...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Gregster2k
Bugger up voice acting? Pffft. This is a step toward making the voice replace the number with a voice file for that number...

I doubt it. Have you any idea how much voice acting would be required to support such a feature? Not to mind the fact that that sort of effect sounds horribly false.

As Phreak says though using this in missions where you've got training messages that can support it would be very good though.

[Gregster2k]

Only as false as the actor makes it out to be. Freelancer can do it seamlessly, you know. It just takes GOOD voice actors. The point is that the option should be possible, just in case, you know what I mean?

[SadisticSid]

I've never heard it done seamlessly. Where did Freelancer do that?

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by SadisticSid
I've never heard it done seamlessly. Where did Freelancer do that?

Maybe it was just so seamless you didn't notice?

[NGTM-1R]

Freelancer has noticible pauses, it's not seemless.