[Taristin]

Eew.

I don't like the internal explosion model...

And the orange seems to be too faint on the ring.

[Nuke]

it would look better if i could get more polys through pcs.

[Woolie Wool]

I prefer spherical shockwaves, so I'll pass on this.

[Carl]

it looks like a 2D shockwave, but with limited polygons. so, no. the old ones >*

[Bobboau]

make it bigger, 1.5

and make it smooth, you are useing the auto-facet build right?

[Nuke]

i always use autofacet build, but use smooth in truespace. i made the spikey part in max and did the rest in truespace. i have really bad luck with smoothing, i recompiled the apis fot the milionth time and its still whack. i always thought that was my video card's doing.

another thing, will glowpoints get scaled as well? it also would be nice if i could pull a rand{} it the glowpoint chunk (in the normal size, and position fields). because i have a few ideas for impoving the effect. you can create of glowbeams at the center with random normals, but unless they 'grow with the explosion, they are useless. is also put a few fire sprites in there as well to fill out the effect. the end result would be a starbeam laden blast and it would have a degree of randoness.

[Mav]

One thing I noticed about 2D shockwaves - if you make them ovoid rather than circular they look a bit 3D  (actually somewhat like the torus part in the above screeny; though you're still caught in the blast no matter if it seems to go into your direction or not).