i uploaded a video of the explosion [video:yahoo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ2gHITBUYE[/video]


they are far from completion and need ALOT of work but this is what the game will be using so far... the main focus of this game is the WEAPONplay so the effects have to be great in attempt to get players to overlook other weekpoints..

and i see the video tag still isnt working, or as there been a change to how we embed videos?

Hm. I like it, but it's not AAA yet.
-Can you add a dynamic light? a flash that lightsa the surrounding area for around 1 second?
-The smoke could be a little darker in places
-The explosion itself doesn't look "thick" enough yet. It looks like the smoke is always behind the actual explosion (if your explosion is anything like mine, this would be because of the BRIGHT flag. Maybe you can deactivate it on some of the particles at random?)
-The explosion itself has a lot of structure (see first screen) which is great. I don't like the round sparks though (the streaked ones are great), for some reason I don't think they look very good, and I've never seen something like that in any explosions in movies etc, as far as I remember.
-How much would you mind sharing your smoke bmap? I've been trying to work on my smoke, and it's just not perfect -.-... maybe having a look at your particle would help a little...

[edit] I noticed also that a shaking camera (when too close to the explosion) and bits of the exploding object that fly off help a whole lot to make the explosion rewarding to the player. It feels... stronger? that way.

thanks for the crits, atleast now i know what changes to maker, however as stated:
-the explosion is still incomplete
-am not aiming to remake a real explosion
-i wont be adding too much detail because i dont want it affecting the framerate
-the screen effects are planned
-the game will not be aiming at photorealistic graphics and the explosion will fit its style.
-the darkness of the smoke effect depends on whats exploding

anyways, theres alot more work to be done, i wont be making any more vids or shots until a major graphical change is achieved.

.... what can take long.
Looking great darkinferno, how about some pieces flying around? Burning scatter... But the effect itself looks good.
Oh, I see, you have some scatter... So, some more scatter?

Looking good, very good, but with the burning flying fragments, can you "streak" the smoke of them?
Dunno how it would affect the framerate at all, but the "puffs" of smoke left
by the flying fragment look odd. Smear them along the "flight path" of the fragment.

Looks amazing, for a free engine.

It's not a free engine :
it's A7 and Dark_Inferno coding

For explosions , you can find vidéos on youtube it can help.
Mercenaries 2 game have explosions i like for example.

@DarkInferno :
I have a question , caus i want to mak some simple rail shooter.
So DarkInferno : for collision detection to detect that you hit an animated ennemi character : how do you do that ?
global collision or precise collision ?

once again, as i've said before, the explosion was from one full day of work and study, its far from completion, i still need to rework the weapon effects, the aim is to get has many effects onscreen with has low fps drop as possible....

thanks for keeping your comments towards the game, dislike when ppl comment off topic

Anyone can tell me how to code a camera like one in this demo plz.. (gear of war like camera).

Realy nice project you r workin on!

And cool video!

Keep on workin!

Cheers Marcel