Smoke ammo

User_no_longer_active · #1 November 12th, 2007, 03:53 AM

Hi. How do I change the number of smoke grenades an infantry section carries? I've followed the instructions in mobhack help and I can change everything but this. What am I missing?

Thanks

Marcello · #2 November 12th, 2007, 04:46 AM

Smoke grenades/ammo are hardcoded AFAIK. Smoke dischargers are the only thing you can change.

Mobhack · #3 November 12th, 2007, 08:33 AM

Quote:

RAEME_Dave said:
Hi. How do I change the number of smoke grenades an infantry section carries? I've followed the instructions in mobhack help and I can change everything but this. What am I missing?

Thanks

Mobhack Help, Units Tab, see the very last paragraph in the section after "Smoke Dischargers", begins with "Oft asked question..".

Andy

User_no_longer_active · #4 November 13th, 2007, 01:21 PM

What's got me confused is this:

"There is no data field for smoke rounds - the field you edit in the Scenario Editor is in game data (like the leader name) , not OB data."

Whereabouts in Game Data is it?

Marcello · #5 November 13th, 2007, 01:44 PM

"Whereabouts in Game Data is it?"

In the deployment menu, the icon with a tank and the letter D.

Mobhack · #6 November 13th, 2007, 01:45 PM

A unit in the game has much more information than you get in the OOB data. The OOB data is simply part of the information used for creation of a unit. Other info for a unit in memory will come from the Leader names table for that nation, or be calculated from internal tables. Like the smoke ammo count is. So no field for that in the OOB data as it is a calculated value.

Yes you can edit the value in the scenario editor - but by then you are editing the variable for units which by now have been created, and had a value for smoke rounds poked in there by the new unit creation code.

Cheers
Andy

User_no_longer_active · #7 November 13th, 2007, 02:34 PM

I'm sorry, but I still can't find it. I've searched through every field (name, weapon 1, weapon 2, etc) under the unit data icon and still no joy. I thought it might have been under Miscellaneous but not. The Smoke Ammo field is blue, along with HEAT ammo and sabot ammo. Is this the way it's supposed to be? Do I need the CD version? Full screen? Surely I'm not THIS dumb...ah, don't answer that.

User_no_longer_active · #8 November 13th, 2007, 02:41 PM

Righto! Found it! Under Weapon 1...

Thanks for the help fellas [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon47.gif[/img]