v0.1-rc2: chest rigs, MOLLE pouches, MOLLE belts

[Hyperseeker]

This is a release candidate. As such, it is not meant to be a complete release and may contain bugs. Player discretion is advised.

This release revamps existing chest rigs and load-bearing vests, MOLLE pouches, and belts that (are meant to have) webbing for the pouches. As is expected of Armory, each item has been modelled after a real counterpart.

Note that this version is now aiming to support the upcoming 0.H stable release, and will not work on 0.G. Make sure to also use the latest version of Core for 0.H.

Highlights:

• Police belts have been reworked. As is often the case in real life, they are now compact MOLLE belts, with their pockets transferred to corresponding pouches. Naturally, you can re-attach these pouches to your own belts and vests.
• Each item has generic variants. Or rather, each items starts off generic, with detailed names and descriptions enabled by the same option that turns on gun brand names in the settings. That way, hopefully more people will enjoy the mod and the cool gear it brings. The variants themselves differ by the camouflage they sport, something their generic counterparts don't mention, in order to leave the player with room for their imagination.
• New gear. This includes pouches for pistol magazines and for SMG magazines (something that doesn't exist in the base game), the aforementioned police-related pouches, as well as new layouts of predefined (non-MOLLE) chest rigs, which some players might appreciate.
• Supporting item audits. This includes the recent magazine audits from experimental, something I assisted with implementing, as well as a few tactical items: police batons, two-way radio, stun gun etc..

In this release, most errors the game throws on load have been eliminated. However, there are still loadtime errors in this version. Those appear to be phantom: caused by the game processing profession items before professions themselves. With new items in the base game, many of the items wouldn't spawn; with new items and profession audits that come with the mod, everything should be fine.

Known load errors:

• failure to spawn of the following items in belt_webbing_blackhawk_foundation:
  • baton-extended
  • tonfa
  • (note that in-game, you can store those on this belt, which replaces the police belt, by adding the appropriate pouches)

These are harmless. Feel free to ignore them completely upon loading the game. (Unless something breaks horribly for you, in which case, please report the error.)

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If you like Armory and/or any other Frontier mods, you could donate to support their development. I don't ask this idly: as of this release, I'm in a critical financial situation due to a sudden loss of work. The rent is coming up over the next couple of days, and I'm not sure if I can pay this time, to say nothing about the food on my table.

As such, I would appreciate any donation you can make. I need to make €660 for the rent, and I'd also like to make another €200 for food until the next rent payment. You can donate one-time via popular services (Ko-Fi, Buy Me a Coffee) or crypto (BTC, ETH); the links are all in DONATE.md in the Core repo.

To make it a little more exciting for you, I've introducer the Ladder of Benefits™: a set of donation tiers, where you can add something to any of the mods under the Frontier Mods umbrella if you donate a certain amount. This, too, is well-described in the donation document.

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I hope you enjoy this release of Armory! Feel free to contact me, leave an issue, or post to the release's discussion page if you have bug reports, suggestions, or notes about the contents of v0.1.

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