[Nuke]

shouldnt the vaporization of metals in the hulls of capships when beam cannons pirce through them cause a massive plume of firey death on the other side of the ship?

another special effect for the list

[Pegasus V]

This has been discussed in many different formats. Take a little strole around the forums (hense - search).

[phreak]

looking into this now

[Bobboau]

sure just run the beam colision code in reverse for the object it's hitting

[EdrickV]

Originally posted by Nuke
shouldnt the vaporization of metals in the hulls of capships when beam cannons pirce through them cause a massive plume of firey death on the other side of the ship?

another special effect for the list

Only if the beam would be strong enough to actually create a hole entirely through the ship. And, realistically, whether a particular beam will punch a hole through a ship would likely depend on many factors, including exactly what part of the ship the beam is hitting and what's between it and the other side. And if a beam went all the way through the ship and there wasn't a hole, it just wouldn't look right. Making holes through ships due to beams is what has been talked to death.

[aldo_14]

Don't beams automatically go through ships when they inflict enough damage to destroy it?  (i.e. if they blow it up, they go through).... I'd really like fire plums 'o death on debris as it gets blown away, but methinks that would be very difficult to do effectively.

[demon442]

Originally posted by EdrickV
Making holes through ships due to beams is what has been talked to death.

I don't remember where I saw it but someone is making a MOD that allows that to happen(without source code editing!)...

[IceFire]

Don't beams automatically go through ships when they inflict enough damage to destroy it? (i.e. if they blow it up, they go through).... I'd really like fire plums 'o death on debris as it gets blown away, but methinks that would be very difficult to do effectively.

Yup, when the hull is weak and a powerful beam sustains fire on it the beam does go right through.

[Fineus]

Now that I think about it is there debris on those when the beam rips through? It'd be nice to have something similar to the debris spew that occurs when a fighter gets shreaded by a beam or when your ship is destroyed in a supernova... it spews debris then - it'd be good to have that from the capital ship as well - even if we can't deform the hull it'd look great when the beam hit...

[Flipside]

That would be kind of tough because of how debris work in FS2, it's fine on a small scale (i/e engine wake etc) The computer can just throw a few low poly shapes around, but on a capital ship scale, it relies on the debris as defined by the POF file, which may well not be in the right place to look at all effective.
I quite like the idea of multi-layered textures, where beams leave large scorch marks down the side of capital ships, but that is discussed elsewhere on the forum I think

Flipside