Damage model update & others

Obviously time progresses and so does the damage model too.

Not a whole lot has changed, the base mechanics are still the same as it was 8months ago, mostly just small improvements.

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Base

Base damage model's health should now be determined by survivability not armour thickness, this was a mistake i've made in the tutorial, survivability makes more sense for a health based damage system.

As for example, some tanks can sustain more damage after penetration, especially larger tanks.

If it was still based on armour thickness rather than survivability, things such as, crew layout, size and modules (such as transmission) would not affect the tank.

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Naval damage system

Although it is not yet implemented in the first three naval vessels as they used the same system as for the tanks, but slightly modified to better resist explosive hits.

The new system would allow for the use of explosive shells, but only with a lower scalar to prevent insta-kill mechanics.

Not only that but it would also allow for seperate values for resistance to HE and AP with the expense of slightly higher part count.

(Will be further explained in a seperate post soon)

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Arnament improvements

High explosive anti tank (HEAT) and high explosive (HE).

High explosive is already available and I've been already using it in the past, however with lower scalars it'll deal almost no damage, and slightly higher would result in it insta-killing anything it hits directly.

This leads to an ankward moment where i'll need to decide if it'll instakill or be absolutely usless, never in between, but not today, hehe.

After tinkering for a bit with explosive shells I've found out that impactDamageScalar adds up with the explosive effect.

In theory this would allow HE shells to not instakill but not become useless, additionally this would also allow HEAT shells to be possible.

By lowering explosionScalar to a value that won't instakill, but at the same time Increasing impactDamageScalar, to meet the damage requirements. Whether or not it would be an HE or HEAT round.

This would be very helpful for any kind of high calliber gun or howitzer, it's a discovery that i've should've found months ago but it is still welcomed.

(Basically it is just as customizable as a normal basic round and mostly acts like one, except with a boom)

Downside is that just like normal rounds, it would ignore spaced armour, which is unrealistic.

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Fortification

Static fortifications would use a combination of naval and ground damage models, most of the time, concrete fortifications would be more resistant to AP than HE. (Correct me if i'm wrong)

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Others

A recent discovery, regarding efficiency, i'm sure most of the veteran players here already figured it out.

It seems like stationary objects, parts that are not moving, are not being calculated unless when touched, since I could spawn 9 sheds all with more than 100+ part counts but still not affect the frame rate, almost unheard of, since I could only spawn 4 tanks, all with less than 55 before the frame rate starts dropping.

I believe suspension and physics quality is what causes the most drop in framerate, definitely more than part count. This also may be the reason why naval vessels run more smoothly, despite having twice the part count.

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Thank you!