Making modified tanks, apcs, etc

[Baphomet 0]

Ok. Here's what I'm getting sick and tired of in missions I make and play. The tanks, specifically tanks and their use of coaxial guns, and their uncanny ability to pick out a single soldier from 500+ meters away and instantly zap him with it's coax gun...

Now I suppose the guns on the tanks may be reasonably accurate, but I just can't see a tank being able to pick out a single soldier at such ranges. It's really annoying.

I'm just wondering if there's a decent way to make an addon where the visual/hearing acuity of tanks lower they can't pick out smaller more insignificant targets as easily.

[Fab. 0]

you want to edit the config and play with these two values :

sensitivity=1;

sensitivityEar=0.0075;

i'm only 99% sure, but i think these two indicate how sensible a vehicle/soldier is to detect other vehicles

you can also modify the equivalent on the units you want to detect (that tells how hard they are to detect)

camouflage=2;

audible=1;

accuracy=0;

camouflage says how hard they are to spot, accuracy says how hard they are to identifiy... for example low camouflage and high accuracy makes a unit easy to spot but hard to identify (your teammates would shout "unknown man, 200...")

note that for camouflage, low value means hard to spot and high value means easy to spot (logically it should have been the opposite ?)

for accuracy, the value indicates "sensibility needed to detect type". so basically if you have a high value of accuracy that means a high value of sensibility is needed to detect - low value : easy to identify, high value, hard to identify.

but you probably just want to mess up with the tank's sensibility rather than the soldier's camouflage/accuracy...

[5133p39 0]

I just can't see a tank being able to pick out a single soldier at such ranges

I really do not intend to start debates about realism, but as a side note, i believe they should not have the slightest problem with the detection of a single soldier at 500m.

I am far from being an expert on the war technology, but in my times of service, we had an old BMP-1 which was equipped with a PSNR-5 radar, which was able to detect SINGLE SOLDIER moving at speed of at least 2km/h (according to the datasheets, the reality wasn't so good) at the max. range of 4-5 Km, depending on the surrounding environment.

A skilful operator was able to get easily the soldier's (or vehicle's) coordinates, or at least the range and azimuth.

And that was some time ago

I don't remember with what is/was the T80 or M1A1 equipped with, but i doubt it would be anything worse.

[-HUNTER- 1]

I checked the values above, but is there a way to set the overall engagement ranges for infantry?

So If spotted he would be shot at with ranges up to 500m??

So I could place a tank somewhere and it would have to move arround allot to cover a large area?

I want to use this stuff in Iraq style missions, where for instance an Abrams keeps a big area clean of insurgents, without moveing about the whole time, so only turning turret, firing, and returning to standby???