How Does Cover Work?

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I'm not sure how does cover work and how do I mod it. For example I see in ebps in gameplay > designer_objects > objects > 2x4_light_cover_light_crush, if I change armor from 5 to 50, it will give that armor to infantry behind it?
Do I basically have to change one by one the armor of heavy, medium and light cover objects?

I see there's more objects in the environment folder.

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That armor value is the armor of that object itself. The cover is actually set in each entity (soldier). The 2x4_light_cover_light_crush only says it's cover type is "tp_light". The soldier in "ebps" has "cover_ext" and within also the "tp_light", which contains the real modifiers. So you have to change the modifiers in there for all soldiers one by one.

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So it's in the entity that I have to change the cover value. Great! thanks for the answer!

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25 May 2018, 05:01 AMSneakEye

That armor value is the armor of that object itself. The cover is actually set in each entity (soldier). The 2x4_light_cover_light_crush only says it's cover type is "tp_light". The soldier in "ebps" has "cover_ext" and within also the "tp_light", which contains the real modifiers. So you have to change the modifiers in there for all soldiers one by one.

Safety_Value can't go higher than 0.5!

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5 Jun 2018, 04:14 AMBoshelvikHall

Safety_Value can't go higher than 0.5!

You can put an "apply_modifiers_action" in the actions within the cover_ext.

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The safety value is purely for pathing/squad-ai, and has no effect on gameplay. If you want to change the damage each weapon does to other things in cover, you have to do it in the weapon attrib.

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SneakEye you mean in the tp_heavy to give it apply_modifiers_action > modifiers, here I give it received_damage_modifier or armor_modifier?
Lugie what I mentioned above is another way to do it I suppose?

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6 Jun 2018, 06:16 AMBoshelvikHall

SneakEye you mean in the tp_heavy to give it apply_modifiers_action > modifiers, here I give it received_damage_modifier or armor_modifier?
Lugie what I mentioned above is another way to do it I suppose?

It depends on what you want.
- Armor means that the enemy's weapon will or will not penetrate/do damage.
- Received_damage will apply after the penetration is calculated and modifies the damage it self.

Example of the armor modifier: