Tactical Tank Cover MINI-MOD

[Sooth]

I have made a mini-mod so I removed the description to make it easier to read. All descriptions in SPOILERS.



LINK TO FILEFRONT
Click here to download the mini-mod with instructions.

SCREENSHOT
Show spoiler to see screenshot

Screenshot

README
Text from the readme

README

Extract in your Company of Heroes main directory.
Example: [C:\Program\THQ\Company of Heroes\]

WHAT THIS MOD IS:
This is a mini-mod that gives all tanks/armoured cars HEAVY COVER (green shield) status. The range the HEAVY COVER provides is based from realistic data from wikipedia and includes; height, width and length. In other words, the tanks act as mobile, shooting sandbags for infantry to hide behind. Keep in mind that they will NOT stop bullets if your infantry is not in the COVER RADIUS of the tank. Meaning they have to sport the HEAVY COVER icon (green shield) to be protected from bullets.
As to why I didn't add the bullet stopping function: to make the tank stop bullets one would have to make it shot blocking, meaning it cannot be hurt nor "shot at".

Feel free to use this mini-mod in any mod you are making, just give me a little mention in the readme.

Sooth out.

[BlackLabel]

cant help you really but its a great idea and whould add some more realism.

[fldash]

How he didn't know what you meant is beyond me, does he play the game?

[Ecthelion]

I've always wondered why Relic never made this change themselves...

[Sledge]

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=127794

There is a good explanation of how to determine your x/y/z value here.

[vesper]

i believe this is a fantastic idea, and a must have mod

[weapon range]

has anyone tried it out? This could be THE tactical addon.

[Sledge]

I really like this, wish it was part of the game originally.

[asynd]

very nice, ive been wanting to do this for some time now but never got around to it. i think ground control 2 had the best example of a tank providing cover, with the ability to deploy side armor for infantry to use as cover

[Vartan]

Okey, I'm going to try and create a little mod for this later today, then later this week the full-scale mod of mine will be released.

any news there mate?

[Practiti0ner]

Now im not nor have i ever claimed to be an expert with corsix's tools but.... couldnt you just look at a destroyed vehicle and copy its cover values over to the real one?

[Sooth]

Yup. But this was less work, and the values for the destroyed vehicles are worthless for dynamic objects. That is, objects that move.

[Halftrack]

This seems to be very cool, will give it a try.

[holymoly]

i have a feeling enemy troops will go for these cover too, and get crushed under the tanks... and im pretty sure most tanks already have shot blocking... they can block MG bullets from hitting whats behind it

[Sooth]

Thats a good point, although I never experienced it. And no, they are not bullet stopping.

[Sgt. D. Pilla]

was it just the Obj_cover_ext...that you added into each vehicle???

[captainbloodlos]

I have recently downloaded this mod and found that my units will not take cover behing Panzer IVs. I have tried increasing the x,y, and z values to no avail. Other than that it is a great mod and it really provides the ability to infantry to safely (relatively, of course) escort tanks.

Edit: NM, I did not realize that this thread has been dead for about six months. Did not intend to bump a dead thread.

[scapula]

reupload plsss link broken

[Sooth]

8th Jan 07, 9:43 PM

lol.

[scapula]

wat? the file fronts says this!"!! File is Unavailable.

The file you are attempting to download is not currently available on our servers or is being processed. Please try your download in a few mi

REUPLOAD PLS

[Celution]

Sooth means that he doesn't have this mod anymore, because the last post on this thread was in 2007.

[Chopin]

原来外国人也挖坟。。。

[Celution]

Originally the foreigner also digs the grave

You gotta heart translators. But what does that has to do with anything.

[Sooth]

He thinks I bumped my own thread xD

[Celution]

Hah! I can understand why he thinks that, cos scapula doesn't have a avatar.

[Grabnutz]

don't bump old threads,
don't post in chinese,
don't spam bumped threads

BAD THREAD, VERY BAD THREAD. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done