Armor bug. Armor thicker than the ship is denser.
Dec 25, 2017 3:51:25 GMT
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Post by linkxsc on Dec 25, 2017 3:51:25 GMT
TLDR. If the armor thickness of a layer of armor on a ship exceeds the actual diameter of the ship it's armoring... parts of the armor seem to intersect or something, and end up making the armor denser than it should be. Doesn't happen when the ship itself is thicker than the armor.
Was playing around with large conventional cannon shots. Noticed that 1 type of shot was severely overperforming compared to the others despite all of them being "equal" (same launch speed, same mass, same length).
Went to figure out why, noticed that 1 of the shots (Left in the attached image) was 7mm smaller in diameter than the other test projectiles.
Projectile is made up of a sub millimeter tungsten radiation shield that is ~70cm long, and has 1cm of tungsten armor on it to make up the bulk of its weight. As you can tell, it's actually denser than it should be compared to the shot on the right (purely a radiation shield. And it's dimensions/mass match up with what math says they should be).
Was playing around with large conventional cannon shots. Noticed that 1 type of shot was severely overperforming compared to the others despite all of them being "equal" (same launch speed, same mass, same length).
Went to figure out why, noticed that 1 of the shots (Left in the attached image) was 7mm smaller in diameter than the other test projectiles.
Projectile is made up of a sub millimeter tungsten radiation shield that is ~70cm long, and has 1cm of tungsten armor on it to make up the bulk of its weight. As you can tell, it's actually denser than it should be compared to the shot on the right (purely a radiation shield. And it's dimensions/mass match up with what math says they should be).
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