Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

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MrTomppa Dec 15, 2024 @ 7:12am
Update Idea Custom Wood Ammo Crates
firstly, I love that all of the ammo have proceduraly generated boxes to spawn, but its kind of odd that bigger rounds and especially
RPG7 Rockets come packed vertically in a flimsy cardboard ammo box.

So I suggest to add wooden crate type container that is different than those spawnable ammo boxes or those weapon cases found in Take and Hold.

The wooden crate scales in size to fit ammunition horizontally and in rows. if the ammo is longer than it is wide for example RPG7 Rockets.

Or if the ammo is of regular relative proportion but larger than lets say .50 BMG or can of beans, it would spawn in the wooden crate container.
In case of the 40x46mm grenades those would be in a grid with separation walls, those too wooden.

Then there is the problem of support material, some of these ammunition should be packed comfortably it would be cool if you could experiment with Shadowfoam, like those tool cut out panels. this material could be done with some subtractive boolean modifier. Or there is always the simple route of layer of hay. those look realistic with some clipping.

The wooden crate is 3D rectangle with lid that is secured in place with two or more metal latches with proper spacing.

When the crate is full it is virtually indestructable but when emptied out of its contents it becomes fragile. if thrown on the floor it will shatter with splinter effect. making satisfying unboxing experience!

Contents are marked with branding iron with military style lettering
other item metadata could be listed in plastic square somewhere.

This concept could be hard to implement in future gamemodes if ammo counts would be hard coded. so i recommend it to be mostly data driven and utilize the ammo panel or somekind of ammo-boxing pistool it would have many knobs to turn and screen to display information and then you could just point any Cartridge and spawn a container of customized size and ammo count.