Hello everyone,
Someone emailed me about this post.
Hi Philippe :0)
panzerwerfer42
It doesn't use penetration set at 30 slope. The damage model is much more complex than that. I'm not the best one to explain this but here goes so bare with me. ;0)
There is an invisible external box around the vehicle. When a round enters this box it travels through it until it hits a polygon of the actual model itself. When this happens a calculation as to the angle is made based on the angle of the polygon and the angle of the incoming round. The limit on this calculation may be 30 degrees. Ounce this calculation is made another calculation is made to wether the round can penetrate the armour of this part of the vehicle at this angle. This takes into account many things I'm not going to go into detail like type of armour, thickness, momentum of round ect. Ounce the round has penetrated it travels from the point of penetration along the angle that it entered through the vehicle. As it travels through the vehicle it will pass through components inside the tank damaging/destroying/ wounding/killing them. I think there are three component layers to each of the vehicles.
Here is a link to the developers explanation thats been up since before the game was released a couple years ago. It has links at the bottom of the pages that take you through all the diagrams and layers.
http://www.wingssimulations.com/damage/damage.html
One problem you may be having is that you are shooting and penetrating but you are simply damaging the tank in the same location and not knocking it out. Damage is not accumulative in that if you shoot the transmission 10 times you'll only take out the transmission.
If your experience with the game was when it was first released it did have some damage model bugs that have been fixed since.
The mods have also improved upon this system.
phil stanbridge
The infantry are modeled. If you get close to them they will attempt to assault your tank and disable it. If you happen to have your hatch open they will quickly kill you and drop a grenade down the hatch for good measure destroying the vehicle.
They also have PanzerFaust, PanzerShrecks and Bazookas that are quite affective if you get within their range.
I hope that this helps clear some things up. :0)
The Panzer Elite Special Edition rerelease is cheap so pick it up if you didn't get the game the first time around before it bacame impossible to get due to it's Publisher going bankrupt. I don't think anyone with an interest in WWII armour will be disappointed. :0)
BTW I've added acouple new pics and screens to my website.
Joe
