• From: United States
  • Registered: 2007-07-22
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Topic: Explosion/Death Ideas

Ok, so, yes, I have brought up the subject of explosions before. But, I have a better idea (keep in mind, it is an idea; I have no idea how hard it is to code things or if it is possible)

I would like to preface my idea with this statement; I freaking LOVE the animation/death of a star fighter when it hits low health and it bursts into flames until it dies/explodes. I LOVE that SO MUCH! This got me wondering; if you guys can do this, can you do more?

1) Could you guys make it so that the ships spark with blue electric arcs like in some of the star fighter deaths in the movies?

2) Could you guys make it so that x% of the time, when a fighter hits low health, it spirals out of control until it's death/combustion?

3) Could you guys make a "running explosion". Like, the ship is flying while it explodes, giving the explosion a forward momentum? Watch some of the deaths and explosions in A New Hope in the Yavin scene.

I'm just tossing some ideas, but if they are possible, please please PLEASE consider them big_smile

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  • From: Grong, Norway
  • Registered: 2006-07-25
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Re: Explosion/Death Ideas

1) Could you guys make it so that the ships spark with blue electric arcs like in some of the star fighter deaths in the movies?

I think a good start would be to give every vehicle and droid in the mod the blue sparks the AT-ST has when hit by a DEMP or EMP grenade wink .

2) Could you guys make it so that x% of the time, when a fighter hits low health, it spirals out of control until it's death/combustion?

PR had this - when a helicopter gunship reached x health, new invisible engines were added that made it lose control, probably most often leading to a crash and the death of the pilot. I personally think it would be interesting to add if it could be made random -- like, 50% of the time you caught fire, 50% of the time you spun out of control?

As a side note, I love the damage modelling in IL-2: Sturmovick. You could shoot out fighters' rudders, elevators, etc., and blow off parts of planes like wings, tails, propeller, etc. The effect was that you could get a "lucky hit" and take out a fighter's engine or whatnot and put it out of action. I so wish we had that stuff in BF2142's engine.

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  • From: United States
  • Registered: 2007-07-22
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Re: Explosion/Death Ideas

I think it would be cool if you could catch fire AND spiral out of control big_smile

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  • S-Guy
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  • Registered: 2007-11-12
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Re: Explosion/Death Ideas

Slyrunner wrote:

I think it would be cool if you could catch fire AND spiral out of control big_smile

That would be neat; It'd remind me a lot of the Rogue Squadron series and how the TIEs tended to do that. big_smile

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  • From: United States
  • Registered: 2007-07-22
  • Posts: 361

Re: Explosion/Death Ideas

YES! I LOVE the Rogue Squadron deaths! If those were possible in this game (please say yes big_smile) then I would be one very happy dude!

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  • Dnamro
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Re: Explosion/Death Ideas

Sorry, but there is no easy way to do it, if it is even possible.  So, it's very doubtful that it will happen with the BF2142 game engine.

  • From: United States
  • Registered: 2007-07-22
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Re: Explosion/Death Ideas

You're one of the team programmers? I didn't know that

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