Exploding ships

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Each time I see an Capital ship or Starbase explosion I wonder is it possible to make destroyed ships crash into 2 (or more) large parts, which will slowly fall and explode, so that after large ship destruction the space around it will be crowded with big and small parts:O

Current explosions is bit silly when gigantic ship/station is exploding, we see a large flash and then it disappears (sometime only 2-3 tiny fragments remians). It would be great if devs would change that :)

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

i agree, but if a ship has anti mater and it explodes?  maybe that's why nothing is left ;o (have no idea if what I said is logical xD) But anyway it'd be cool to have the bits around!

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

What would be cool is if the large peices started floating towards the planet, real slow.  When it crashes, it does some damage to the planet.  The pieces could even be a target for your ships.  They would kill the living ships first, and then turn their guns on the pieces.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

The real problem with that is that the explosionDef.entity only supports hardpointed particle effects...

I have been playing around with that and I think that creating a shatter effect would be possible, but it would require massive amounts of work/pre-shattered parts that are arranged in such a way that it looks nice, not to mention the particles themselves.

Quoting LupusVir, reply 2
What would be cool is if the large peices started floating towards the planet, real slow.  When it crashes, it does some damage to the planet.  The pieces could even be a target for your ships.  They would kill the living ships first, and then turn their guns on the pieces.
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this would be cool, but maybe a wee bit too complicated?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KrdaxDrkrun, reply 3


Quoting LupusVir, reply 2What would be cool is if the large peices started floating towards the planet, real slow.  When it crashes, it does some damage to the planet.  The pieces could even be a target for your ships.  They would kill the living ships first, and then turn their guns on the pieces.

this would be cool, but maybe a wee bit too complicated?
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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

It could use the advent meteroid control abilities on death.