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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: soilder198 on August 03, 2025, 06:40:58 pm

Title: Limited to 3 ships in monitoring window?
Post by: soilder198 on August 03, 2025, 06:40:58 pm

Hello. In a mission I am working on, I have 4 ships marked as "escort ship", yet only 3 will appear in the monitoring window at any point in the mission. How do I fix this?

Think I might've answered my own question. In the original FRED2 manual it appears there is a limit of 3 ships in the monitoring window, and I think that my game was launching the retail verison of FS2 and not the upgraded version. It has been years since I've fredded and had many changed to my operating system as well as a full rebuild of my computer so I will try and launch FSOPEN with mediavps and see if this fixes it.

Title: Re: Limited to 3 ships in monitoring window?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on August 04, 2025, 06:54:40 am

The limit is governed by hud_gauges.tbl

https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/Hud_gauges.tbl#.24Max_Escort_Ships:

Title: Re: Limited to 3 ships in monitoring window?
Post by: Goober5000 on August 05, 2025, 12:18:47 am

What 0rph3u5 said.  The MediaVPs include a modification to hud_gauges.tbl that increases the limit.