How to give halftracks the ability to carry soldiers

[Acronym]

Hi,


I'm trying to increase the number of soldiers carried by the sd.kfz 251/9 and /10 to 4 via the rwm_lang.sue but it makes my game crash.

I figure its due to the animation currently used by both vehicles which display the soldiers as "sitting" on top of the vehicle. Instead I want them to be carried inside the vehicle as with trucks and the sd.kfz 251/1.

Can someone please help?


Thanks,
Acronym

[Acronym]

Someone must know how to increase the number of men a vehicle can carry?

Barbarossa what about you?

[Captain_Obvious]

I'm only 15 years late, but this might help someone else.
If I correctly remember how this works, there is two reasons for this.
1.
You take your "desc_common.sue file, using a program called "unsue", you uncompress the file.
In the "desc_common.sue" folder, there is a folder called "units", in that folder, there is a file called "units", which is a list of all of the units, like,
gaub +a_gaub
atg +dgaub
furg a_furg
guner a_hmg
jeep a_jeep
katya katya
mzenit m-16
samo isu-152
tank comet

That left column tells the game what type of unit it is, the second column is the name of the unit.
If your sd.kfz 251/9 and /10 units are not marked as "apc" in the left column, then it will not work.
2.
If the graphics files in the "units.sue" file are not compiled in the APC format the game will crash, aka if the graphics files are compiled as "tank" then you can not put troops inside.
Is that understandable?

[zarathustra]

Only the following units are transported inside soldiers:
truck (type furg)
armored car (type apc)
jeep (type jeep)
Capacity (if I'm not mistaken) is limited: 16 units

[Blakeswort]

Moin,

i have a furg with 100 Stock and it works fine i think the limit is 255 but i never try because 100 icons are a huge number

I dont think a APC has another Stocklimit so try out.

First you have to find the file of the unit in the lang files.

If you open the File you find the part of

crew
and
stock

Crew is the number of manpower you need to handle, so you get crew_attack and crew_move. How much Crew you need to drive or to attack.

Stock is the number of passengers in the back.

And zarathustra is right, you need to look if the unit list, if the unit is not furg, jeep or apc the game is crash.

[zarathustra]

i have a furg with 100 Stock and it works fine i think the limit is 255 but i never try because 100 icons are a huge number

For jeep type - the number of passengers is limited to 16
If this limit is exceeded, the game will crash into the system