If a player ship is changed to a regular ship, be sure that
Player_start_shipnum does not still point to the old ship.
Consolidate the several near-duplicate copies of the "repoint
Player_start_shipnum to a valid player start" logic, in both FRED and
qtFRED, into a single shared helper, ensure_valid_player_start_shipnum()
in missioneditor/common.cpp.
Also add some guards in situations where Player_start_shipnum might
be -1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
* add wing display names
Adds display name capability for wings, matching the pattern and infrastructure of display names for ships. As in #7234, wing display names take precedence over ship display names, if both are provided; because if ship display names took precedence, a ship would have the same display name in every wave.
All the relevant display locations are handled, including the HUD, escort list, message box, and mission log. Lua API support is provided as well.
Adds full support for both FRED and QtFRED, including the always-save-display-names setting.
Addresses #7189 and the last request from #1730.
* add help text from #7234
This introduces a new mechanism for handling bit flags. Instead of using an int (or two, or three) to write bits into, this uses the std::bitset in a wrapper class that accepts an enum class as input. This means that certain classes of errors we've had a few of in the engine, where a coder used the wrong set of flags or checked them against the wrong variable (SF_STEALTH vs SIF_STEALTH, for example) can now be detected at a compiler level rather than not at all.
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