[Setekh]

Hey MD, I just noticed Material Defender Studios in your sig. Is that what MD has stood for all these years? Nice site  

[Nico]

material defender... a Descent warrior  

[Kitsune]

The only problem I have with the whole 'near-vaccuum' of space dampening the blast effects of a nuclear blast.

Alright, I completely understand this, but when a helios/harbinger hits the hull of a ship, it would make sense that it would blow some kind of hole in the side of the ship.

The shockwave then has an atmosphere to move through, so wouldn't cascade down passageways and rooms, the combustion/wave incinerating everything along it's path untill the smaller wave(s) have finally worked themselves out?

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[Thorn]

If we wanted complete realism, the entire ship would decompress as soon as a laser or a missile punched through the hull..

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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Kitsune:
The only problem I have with the whole 'near-vaccuum' of space dampening the blast effects of a nuclear blast.

Alright, I completely understand this, but when a helios/harbinger hits the hull of a ship, it would make sense that it would blow some kind of hole in the side of the ship.

The shockwave then has an atmosphere to move through, so wouldn't cascade down passageways and rooms, the combustion/wave incinerating everything along it's path untill the smaller wave(s) have finally worked themselves out?

That would look so cool - I'll have to tell Styxx to put that into an MT cutscene.  

[Kitsune]

Thankee.
For a visual reference, look at the final episode of babylon 5 where they blow up the station.
It would be a pain in the rear to do though, it's great to visualize, but the actual work... Ouch.

[jonskowitz]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
Yeah I know, but if you want realism, just delete shockwaves then, coz in vacuum, no shockwave... I like yellow ones coz it looks cool, not because it's realistic...

That's not entirely true,  You would still get a solar-wind effect from such weapons that would cause a shockwave-like effect.  Although it would be far less dramatic than a terrestrial shockwave (you just can't beat solid matter for storing and releasing kinetic energy   )

Besides, it looks soooooooo much cooler that way...

[Setekh]

We should get debris being flung from the explosion...