Use of Armor.txt ?

[TheBlasphemer]

Hi,

While doing some attempts to directly copy OTA content to Spring, I stumbled upon the problem that if Armor.txt is not found, the game will crash horribly...
However, the Armor.txt seems to consist of just a few variables set to 13 (magic number :S?), and mods run fine with an empty Armor.txt...

Could anyone tell me what exactly is the use of Armor.txt and if the game should be able to run without it ?

Thanks,
TB

[SinbadEV]

basically it's a fudge factor file... it makes specific adjustments to the damage done by a given weapon to a given unit class(or something like that)... don't know why it's overtly required, probably just an SJism.

[PauloMorfeo]

Go to the wiki section
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Main_Page
to find information on alot of stuff, like messing around with mods.

More specifically, this wiki page is about what Armor.txt is and how to use it:
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Mod_Development:Armor

Although that page seems to be somewhat messed up. Could someone try and find out what is wrong with it? Maybe someone messed it up?

I can tell you that it's purpose is to use the groups that are defined there for weapons beeing able to assign special demage to a group of units, just that. The numbers do not mean anything.

[SinbadEV]

PRE TAGS DON'T WORK IN OUR WIKI! PEOPLE So that's what messed up the page... just start fixed format lines with an extra space.

[Gnomre]

They did when I posted them originally, otherwise a different format would have been used in the first place. I can't be held accountable for software upgrades breaking it...

[SinbadEV]

oh, was that you again... sorry... you've learned your lesson, that was a public service anoucement for other people...