1) When syntax checking for hud gauges, be sure to check all gauges available because the default ship may not be the ship chosen in the player loadout.
2) Add a warning to every hud gauge check if the gauge isn't found.
3) Don't report syntax errors for hud gauges in FSO, only FRED; because every place that use a gauge will fail gracefully.
* Add Per-Ship Class Wingmen Status Dot
This PR adds a ship info value `$Wingmen Gauge Dot Override:`, which allows modders to set wingmen status dots on a per-ship class basis. If no animation is specified then the default dot animation specified in the HUD table wingmen gauge is used.
Both EatThePath and Darius stated this feature would be useful, and it will also be useful for FotG.
Tested and works as expected, including on winged ships present at mission start and delayed winged ships.
* Add New Options to Wingmen Gauge
This PR adds two new options for modders to use in the HUD table for the wingmen gauge:
1) `Use Full Wing Names:` which draws the full wing name and does not alter the capitalization.
2) `Use Expanded Colors:` which use red, yellow, or green color to designate wingmen health (green 1.0 to > 2/3, yellow 2/3 to > 1/3, and red <= 1/3.
Also adds the bright red option to dead wingmen, which seems like it was missing before(?).
Tested and everything works as expected.
* correct string copy length
* fix out of scope case variable
If a wing has a hash symbol, it needs to match the squadron status gauge for the equivalent name without the hash. This could happen for in-mission jumps or cases where a wing leaves and comes back.
Also remove an obsolete function.
* refactor hud escort list to be less crazy
- don't keep rebuilding list
- add and remove ships more efficiently
- better handling of player ships in multi (fixes#1674)
* fix sorting issues
- incomplete priority sort
- reversed alpha sort
* fix additional sorting issue
* improve safety check in list sort function
* add safety checks to hud_add_ship_to_escort()
this wasn't meant to be used outside of the module so
it was not really safe to use with sexps previously
* remove entries properly in hud_add_remove_ship_escort()
* wip
* basics are working
* turret case is handled
* better fighter beam handling
* missing commit?
* handle missile spawn
* clean up, commenting and ssb handling
* random in sphere and per burst rot counts for "share random" flag
* clean up, clarity and comments
* accidental whitespace changes
* bugfix
* NULL -> nullptr
* more efficiency/clarity
* review tweaks and bugfixes
Most guages in hud_guages.tbl will display a Warning if they can't be loaded, but the reticle is an exception - it only prints a log statement. This PR changes it to be consistent with the rest of the HUD gauges.
Fixes#3090.
Consolidate all the functions which parse lists of data. They're almost the same except for the data itself, so use templates.
As for the templated function which handles the list, boost the robustness by adding additional checking and error messages.
This refactors the tolower/toupper code to use standards-conformant logic, and also adds some helpful utility functions. Regular tolower/toupper must be supplied a value that can be represented as `unsigned char`, but the std:: functions are a bit more robust.
As astuetly determined by @Baezon `the speed differential for retail cap ships is caused by 'ships with no shields can manage ETS', being part of the bugfixes with target version`. This PR adds two flags per Discord suggestion, one for all ships and one for only small ships.
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