[SnakeEyes]

Hi all:

Why do some objects on weapons.tbl and ships.tbl have an @ character in front of the object name??

Like "$Name: @GTF Apollo" instead of "$Name: GTF Apollo" like the rest of objects....

Cheers.

[Wanderer]

AFAIK it does nothing.. Atleast game removes it from the name if it is found as the first letter.. IIRC it marked the weapons and equipment available in FS2 demo.

[SnakeEyes]

Cheers

[Trivial Psychic]

However, if there is a "#" character in a weapon name, all parts after it (and including the "#") won't be visible in the loadout screen or in-mission (IIRC).

[WMCoolmon]

There are three special characters in names that I know about.

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;;Marks weapon as demo weapon (now defunct)
$Name: @Subach HL-7

;;Ignores everything after # in weapon name when showing weapon name to player
$Name: Cyclops#IWANTBOSCHBEER

;;Marks ship as demo ship (now defunct)
$Name: @GTT Argos

;;For ship copies, specify the parent ship as "GTD Orion"
$Name: GTD Orion#GTD Bastion

[Trivial Psychic]

What's the 3rd character?

[WMCoolmon]

Uhmm...I counted the two demo characters as one and the other two as two.