[Starman01]

Hello,

I want to do some experiment here, because I encountered
a very interesting "bug" in one of my missions.

We (that means the WC-Saga-Team) are currently trying to add
death-screams for enemy fighters.

Now I have created a mission, where some enemy fighters (ships.tbl
flag = terran) suddenly sended (unwanted)  the standard-death-screams
of the freespace-pilots (set in message.tbl)

I see two possible reasons for this:

1) It's because the ships flag =terran and because of this they display
terran death-scream. But I'm not very sure about that, I cannot
remember that enemy terran-fighters ever played a death-scream in
original freespace.

2) It's because when the ships arrived in the mission, their team
was "unknown" and I changed them later to "hostile, maybe in
conjunction with the FRED-Flag "All teams at war". At least this is
what I'm hoping for.

Now I have to figure out, if this happens too, when the ship is
flagged = shivan.

Enough of the story, what I need to know from you is that :

a) What is the current limit of personas/wingmans in message.tbl,

b) and more important, what must I do exactly if I want a specific
fighter in Fred be bound to a specific wingman in message.tbl
(in order to play the messages set for that wingman). Is it just the
"persona-setting" in the ships-editor or has the persona in the
event / messages a connection too (I don't think so, but I ask anyway).

c) Is it possible that more than one fighter will be set to the same
persona ?

Thanks for the help.

Regards

Starman©

[Tolwyn]

a) currently 7, although SCP coders promised to increase the limit (currently 5 humans plus 2 Vasudans)
b) as far as I know, it is the personas string
c) yes

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Starman01
c) Is it possible that more than one fighter will be set to the same
persona ?

The way I understood it is if you make ships Alpha 2,3 and 4 Persona1  and then have alpha 2 send a message set to persona 2 the message will be sent by alpha 3 or 4 if Alpha 2 is already dead.

I've never done any direct testing to check this though.

[Starman01]

Kinda complicated. But when more than one fighter can
set to one persona, than that is a step in the right destination.

@tolwyn or any SCp-Member : What is the latest stand in bumping up
the personas-limit in  message.tbl ? Any updates on that yet ?

[Tolwyn]

heh, the current problem is the horrific memory leak. I have run out of memory (1GB) with the 3.6 vps running standard FS2 without any additional mods installed. This is most likely due to the new mv_* stuff. There are a ****tone of high res .tga textures with shinemaps, and env maps, they are real FPS killer. Not to mention unlodded explosions.

So, SCP people are going nuts on the internal forum trying to track it down. I would not count on their help right now.