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I'm hoping Josh can do a lot better as far as the graphic effects are concerned when LT ships die, ravener96. He is primarily a graphics man.ravener96 wrote:if i remmember right the death animations are a coupple of explosions when the ships die, and dont get me wrong, those are quite suficcient. i would just love to see fire from leaking fuel tanks and huge amounts of smoke billowing out of recently destroyed ships
fatmop wrote:Smoke won't billow in space like that. In fact, smoke caused by fire pretty much won't happen at all - as soon as a fire is exposed to the vacuum, it'll go out, and poof, no more smoke - it'll all disperse into space. What's that look like? Depends on the circumstances. If you have an internal fire and a small hull breach appears, you'll get a jet of hot gas spewing out the side of the ship. If, on the other hand, a large hull breach is opened, you'll get one large outward explosion of gas, dust, and debris, which will quickly cool off to ~absolute zero as it expands rapidly into space.
If you want more interesting effects, we could come up with stuff like ionized plasma leaks - a cone of ionized plasma or gas expanding out from a point on the ship, and maybe an electrical arc shooting through it like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiIVze2Tac Or perhaps ignitable gas that expands outward from the ship and then is quickly flared by an ignition source. But to really have any awesome effects, you require gas, and gas expands very rapidly in space to the point where it doesn't stay together as a gas.
Basically I'd prefer if ship damage effects look more sci-fi, and less 1942 battleship on fire.
we are talking about a game, almost nothing in it is realisticravener96 wrote:it wouldent be 100% realistic, but it would look amazing.
Yes pleaseFlatfingers wrote:Just as a personal preference, I would be OK with gratuitous "movie fire" space explosions in LT combat. Rule of cool wins here for me.
I'm only half a nut, Flat. I want rotating planets but I'm not interested in them orbiting.Flatfingers wrote:But I'm the nut who'd like planets to orbit and rotate, so you should instantly dismiss anything said by someone so inconsistent.
But there were experiments conducted on different space stations which give us a pretty good idea.Kambalo wrote:So far that I recall no one has seeing a space ship blow up in space, so no one really knows how fire, smoke and explosion will behave in space.
Could be but, what kind of fuel are we talking about on these spaceships designed in this game, nuclear fuel, ionic fuel, gas, diesel, water, liquid gas?Cornflakes_91 wrote:But there were experiments conducted on different space stations which give us a pretty good idea.Kambalo wrote:So far that I recall no one has seeing a space ship blow up in space, so no one really knows how fire, smoke and explosion will behave in space.
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