How do you increase a shots armor penertration?

[Flanker15]

Without increasing its weight or velocity?
I wanted to make the .50bmg have its historic anti armor capabilities since at the moment it skips off even the thinnest metal.
I tried increasing its armor pen value and its reliability but it's no good.

Also does the free camera mod work at all?  I can't get it to work (I press the assigned key and nothing happens).

[frinik]

You can always tweak the armour penetration value of the projectile in the shell entries in the common re .It's number 7 in the lines:

//.50BMG MG for M-36
BUL_50BMG,0x09,%SHELL_AP%,BUL_50BMG,890,90,0.7,0.3,0,1,0,0,0.0472,0,0.6,8,6,6,0.1,0,1,1,1


Increase the value from 0.7 to 0.8 perhaps?

[Flanker15]

Doesn't work, the shot seems to be limited by its light weight.

[lockie]

As I remember .50BMG MG for M-36 was adjusted by will1973. So, we need his help.

[Flanker15]

Actually it might not be broken after all lol.
I've been testing it with the M3 halftrack and GMC as targets and well I had a look at their armor maps...... lol.

[frinik]

And their armour is too thick??

[Flanker15]

Well the GMC truck has 100mm of rha everywhere.   
The M3 has its thickest armor, 30mm, everywhere.

[lockie]

Well the GMC truck has 100mm of rha everywhere.   

It's a bug
should be:

Code:

armor_thick=5;

[frinik]

Well the GMC truck has 100mm of rha everywhere...

Wow !

I just opened the tech_cfg file and lo and behold!:

//armor thickness, mm
   armor_thick   =   100;
   //??
   arm_fwd      =   2;
   arm_side   =   2;
   arm_back   =   2;
   arm_up      =   2;

   //Visibility (high/low profile)
   vis_factor   =   2;

   //armor map
   armor_map   =   armor_maps\gmc_armor.tga;
   //armor quality
   armor_qual   =   1.0;
   //armor fragility
   armor_frail   =   0.3;
   //armor strength ?
   armor_str   =   2030;

[lockie]

It does that in SF the American quality of the armor is simply th best!  8)

[Flanker15]

I fixed the thickness but what should the strength be set too?

Anyway here's a quick update on the M3 armor

http://www.4shared.com/file/SysI9DKyce/m3_halftruck_armor.html

6.5mm on everything but the front windscreen which has 13mm.

[frinik]

I think 5 mm like for the Opel truck.

[Flanker15]

Also here's a armor map for the GMC to go with the M3, it's just the same 5mm all over but the tarp is now very thin.   
http://www.4shared.com/file/ZnfupZlTba/gmc_armor.html

[lockie]

Both armor maps included into AprUpd.

[Lord_Haw-Haw]

Without increasing its weight or velocity?
I wanted to make the .50bmg have its historic anti armor capabilities since at the moment it skips off even the thinnest metal.
I tried increasing its armor pen value and its reliability but it's no good.

//.50BMG MG for M-36
BUL_50BMG,0x09,%SHELL_AP%,BUL_50BMG,890,90,0.7,0.3,0,1,0,0,0.0472,0,0.6,8,6,6,0.1,0,1,1,1

  Normal at which ricochet, try changing this value

[Flanker15]

Without increasing its weight or velocity?
I wanted to make the .50bmg have its historic anti armor capabilities since at the moment it skips off even the thinnest metal.
I tried increasing its armor pen value and its reliability but it's no good.

//.50BMG MG for M-36
BUL_50BMG,0x09,%SHELL_AP%,BUL_50BMG,890,90,0.7,0.3,0,1,0,0,0.0472,0,0.6,8,6,6,0.1,0,1,1,1

  Normal at which ricochet, try changing this value

Nope the gun's fine, it was skipping off targets because my "soft" test target truck actually had the armor of a tiger!