[Thunder Hammer]

Hey everybody I thought it was about time i stopped being a lurker and actually did something for the FS2 community. At the mo I’m getting acquainted with FRED2. I'm hopefully going to try my hand at every type of modding for FS2. If I’m lucky I’ll find one I’m good at. If not I’ll pimp my self out as a beta tester.

One question for the moment. I’ve got a player wing that isn't Alpha verses an enemy wing that is Alpha but Alpha wing shows up in my HUD as my wingmates. Can someone tell me how do I stop the enemy Alpha wing showing up in the HUD as my Wingmates?

[redsniper]

Oh, I know. There are certain characters that will show up in fred but won't display in game. So instead of "Alpha" you name them "Alpha¤" or something like that. (the keystroke for that is Alt + 0164, btw). You can use the same trick to make it seem like a ship has jumped out of a mission and then jumped back in too. 8)

[Dark Hunter]

I tried that once... apparently it was a character not supported by FRED's font, which meant that instead of an obscure character, a question mark appeared...

Course, I didn't use keystrokes but rather the character map to do that, so maybe that had something to do with it...

[Polpolion]

You can always use #. Thats what the Mjlnir#home uses. (sp)

[redsniper]

Well, I know Inferno does it with the Nemesis, so you could just see how they did it.

[Getter Robo G]

Is (#) one of those characters that are not registered? (someday I need to go to FRED school, I'm just too damn busy with otehr modding   )

[Mad Bomber]

There's a section in FRED2 Open where you can set what wings the player and such are using.

For instance, instead of Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon, you can set it to Scald Bragi Hoder Tyr Hrid or something like that if it were a GTI campaign.

Go to Editors->Mission Specs and you'll see a button (an actual button, not a checkbox) saying "Custom Wing Names".

You can figure it out from there

[Snail]

Don't use ;, it messes stuff up.

[Mad Bomber]

Yes. Semicolons can cause parsing errors.

[Dark Hunter]

So do quotation marks, while we're on that subject. If you want to put things in quotes for whatever reason, use apostrophes.

[Snail]

What happens if you use “ and ”? Does it happen the same as normal "?

[Mad Bomber]

Similar parsing errors methinks. That or it'll show up as an unknown character.

What I'm wondering about is if a double apostrophe will work... 

[Thunder Hammer]

Thanks for all the help people. Bomber your solution seems to be working for me so now I can now have my wings named what I like and the HUD matches so cheers for that. It's good to konw that FS2 has such a helpful comunity behind it which means i'm more likely to stick with modding as I now know if i get stuck all i need to do is ask i'm sure to get the help i need  .

[Mad Bomber]

Glad to help

[Taristin]

I always just added a space...