Leaking some information from War in Heaven internal because it is so cool.
Y'know that awesome 'beam blowthrough' effect from the FS2 intro, where the Lucifer's fire goes right through that Orion? Wanderer and Fury got that working in-game, on ships with low health or no health at all. I'll see if I can sneak a screenshot out.
Beams have been able to 'punch through' warships they kill since retail, but now they have this pretty sweet jet of fire and debris to go with them.
We also have support for smaller blasts when beams impact ships, meaning that slasher beams can leave glowing trails of slowly fading metal across hulls. It's pretty cool.
This isn't the only cool graphical tweakage we've got going on, but it is a very neat effect and I was so excited by it that I couldn't contain myself.
man, I am such a huge fanboy.
(Also, since Zacam is on BP, I'm sure we can get this into the MediaVPs; Zacam can just take the War in Heaven table entries and use them for the next release. That way everybody can use them for their mods.)
