Just some ideas i wanted to toss out onto the killing room floor

-Dirt fountains.  Say your mech falls down and eats it, or lands after a JJ flight.  Remember the dirt fountain effect from the tukkayid cinematic from mw2 mercs that the mad dog kicks up after it dies?  Something like that. 

-Air vehicle crashes.  helos and areospace crash into roiling fireballs, the kind you see in airshow accidents.  Or at least an approximation of that effect.  Most other games either have a small pathetic explosion, or bounce a firey rigid destroyed model of the aircraft off the ground.  Never feels like a proper boom.

-Cockpit interior.  If you can get emergency lighting flashing and smoke in the cockpit when your mech is critical i will love you forever.

erh! Flyiungdebries, how much I like your ideas they are not to be implemented in any games within the near future, that the standard users rig is not powerfull anuf to show all those details. And if they were, did you ever woundered how fast a rig you gotta run to have smoke and flashing lights within the cockpit, in conjunction with the exterior environtment and all thats happening there! Try a 3D rig, with 3x1GB GraphicCards and 3xquadcore CPU and 16GB of RAM!



added maps for the smoke effects, adds more resourses to be executed via the CPU/GPU.


Again more maps and particle system stresses the two vital core units on the MB, so bigger Hardware for this is to be obtained by the gamer.


See above!


But hey I like it, and I would love to see it in the future. 

flyingdebris, are you still at Day 1?

And current day rigs can handle what you describe, it just takes time and performance away from other things to do them which is why a lot of games don't. One game that is really breaking ground on physics and special effects is Red Faction: Guerrilla and that works awesomely fast on the 360 and PS3 (and PC).

If we can, we will, but as with everything else "Don't expect it on initial release."

smoking like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKlkTKwOsB4&feature=related ?

While looking through explosion videos on youtube I found this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thS0cimuqFY&feature=related

that's the mayor Adam West voice from family guy in that video o_0

Sorry, dude. Effects like this really don't have to be that hard.

For example, smoke and stuff in the cockpit can be nothing more than standard fare particle effects, which really don't take a lot of work. Same with a 'dirt spray'. You just throw up some dirt-textured quads that blink out after a bit. No problem. Truly deformable terrain is not needed for these little effects.

An airplane crash wouldn't be terribly hard, either I think. The plane model would get some simple fire and smoke effects, and the game engine would just let the model free-fall and land for a while before removing the object entirely.

I can't imagine it would cause much of an FPS drop.

Again I shall bring in some Crysis MP examples. If you hit the tail rotor of a Heli it would realistically spin out of control. If you injured it enough (80% damage) it would fall from the sky with flames tailing it until it collided with the ground and blew up. The realism in that is quite amusing.

My favorite is when you blow up a VTOL or Heli the pieces fall to the ground and can insta-kill anyone below. It's very funny to see the guy who killed you with a rocket be killed by your heli debris.

You can stay in the Heli while it falls outta the sky and at the last moment bail out and parachute or pray you hit a slope...I hope this mod retains this for ships like the Karnov and Donar Seems like they could just change the model and keep all the features of it since it's just another vehicle with rotor-blades.