Update CE patch to new 1.6/1.8 armor and melee tools systems

[sumghai]

The original Combat Extended mod (as well as the CE:FT fork I contribute to) has recently updated its codebase, overhauling the armor and melee tools systems.

Armor penetration protection is now defined with two rather than one parameter:

• A "sharp" armor rating, equivalent to how thick its effective Rolled Homogeneous Armor (RHA) is in mm
• A "blunt" armor rating, equivalent to how much blast pressure in megapascals (MPa) the armor can withstand before transferring the blunt damage to the internal organs (for pawns) or vital mechanics (for mechanoids and vehicles)

Similarly, melee tool penetration uses the same stats, with the "sharp" rating for the maximum thickness of armor it can punch through with a direct hit, and the "blunt" rating for the pressure of the impact

Mechanoid and vehicle bodydefs should also have body parts properly nested in groups, and tagged with CoveredByNaturalArmor so that the vehicle's armor rating will actually offer some protection.

For reference, here are the CE:FT patches for Chicken Plucker tanks and APCs:

Last Man Contingent T-55 Tank

• https://github.com/AthenaSulisMinerva/CombatExtendedFastTrack/blob/master/Patches/Red%20Horse%20Faction%20Last%20Man%20Contingent/RH_LMC_CE_Patch_Races_Mechanical.xml
• https://github.com/AthenaSulisMinerva/CombatExtendedFastTrack/blob/master/Patches/Red%20Horse%20Faction%20Last%20Man%20Contingent/RH_LMC_CE_Patch_Bodies_Mechanical.xml

Umbra Company BTR-70 APC

• https://github.com/AthenaSulisMinerva/CombatExtendedFastTrack/blob/master/Patches/Red%20Horse%20Faction%20Umbra%20Company/RH_Umbra_CE_Patch_Races_Mechanical.xml
• https://github.com/AthenaSulisMinerva/CombatExtendedFastTrack/blob/master/Patches/Red%20Horse%20Faction%20Umbra%20Company/RH_Umbra_CE_Patch_Bodies_Mechanical.xml

If I have time free away from CE:FT and other real-life commitments, I may be able to help update the patches for the vehicles included in YVF.

[NinjaSiren]

Thanks!

[NinjaSiren]

Just updated it! :)

[sumghai]

Erm, nope.

The recent changes you pushed were for reloading of vehicle weapons in CE, which has little to do with adding armored protection to the chassis/body of the vehicles.

Please reopen this issue, and leave it open until I have time to look over your existing defs and see what needs to be done to actually add vehicle armor.

[NinjaSiren]

this is under CE_patches.xml

[Taranchuk]

Since we are talking about CE patches, we also need to change the bulk and mass carrying stats of vehicles. Since they have values of 40 and 20, respectively, any excess of these values will slow down their moving speed on the map and this is wrong, given that they are vehicles and must carry more.

[NinjaSiren]

Since we are talking about CE patches, we also need to change the bulk and mass carrying stats of vehicles. Since they have values of 40 and 20, respectively, any excess of these values will slow down their moving speed on the map and this is wrong, given that they are vehicles and must carry more.

Oh, so we will have "realistic" weights with armor included with them