[ARSPR]

I think $Name entry in Ships.tbl and Weapons.tbl, (and any other table???), should contain the description about the special characters you can use in it.

I don't mind updating Wiki myself but I'm no expert.

This is my little knowledge about these characters:

• #. It's used in the middle of the name. It makes the right part of the name not being shown in the ship/weapon class info of the target window, (or beside the target brackets in FS_Open builds). It allows making different versions of a ship or weapon while showing the same class name inside the game.
  An example from FSPort Freespace 1: "SF Dragon#weakened" ship, used in "Enter the dragon" mission, appears to the player just as another "SF Dragon", although, as its name suggests, it is less powerful than the original one.
  
  
• @. It's used at the begining of the name and it doesn't appear ingame in ship/weapon class. What does it do?
  
  
• Any others?
  
  

Could anyone confirm this info and post a lesson about the rest?

[TopAce]

@ Is used to denote ships and weapons that were in the demo.

I don't know of any others.

[Snail]

;; semicolon can be used anywhere to **** things up

[ARSPR]

I've made a test with @ and it seems pretty useless...

In FS2 retail ships.tbl you have:

Code: [Select]

...

$Name:                          @GTDR Amazon
...
$POF file:                      Drone01.pof
...
$Closeup_pos:           0.0, -2.0, -49
$Closeup_zoom:          0.5

...


$Name:                          GTDR Amazon Advanced
...
$POF file:                      Drone02.pof
...
$Closeup_pos:           0.0, 19.0, -190
$Closeup_zoom:          0.5

...
Over that table I've used the next -shp.tbm which switches @ between both ships:

Code: [Select]

#Ship Classes

$Name:  GTDR Amazon
+nocreate
$POF file: Drone02.pof
$Closeup_pos:           0.0, 19.0, -190
$Closeup_zoom:          0.5

$Name:  @GTDR Amazon Advanced
+nocreate
$POF file: Drone01.pof
$Closeup_pos:           0.0, -2.0, -49
$Closeup_zoom:          0.5

#End

And voilà, you end with an Amazon looking like an Amazon Advanced, and vice versa.

So it really seems that @ is fully useless.

Could someone confirm it? Or does it have another kind of hidden effect?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

@ Is used to denote ships and weapons that were in the demo.

[Droid803]

The game does not read the '@' at all.
You can use it to mark ships, that say, are placeholders in your mod or something.
Its essentially like a comment, but only a single character.

[WMCoolmon]

;; semicolon can be used anywhere to **** things up

/* Comment */ as well.

[ARSPR]

;; semicolon can be used anywhere to **** things up

/* Comment */ as well.

Thanks guys, but I don't think they are $Name special characters but general ones.


OTOH there's just one question missing. Is there any other table, (but ships.tbl and weapons.tbl), where # and @ can be also used?


EDITED

Done. Ships.tbl and Weapons.tbl modified in Wiki