New Commander Explosion

That's epic.

This new PTE is freaking awesome!

Wow - huge improvement there. It would be cool(er) if the commander wreckage was red hot soft metal and kinda slowly slumped over afterward.

So boss; I watched it twice.

wait whats PTE?

Public Test Environment.

It's where they/we test stuff before it's released.

Oh okay thanks

Looks pretty.

There needs to be no "gap" between the original blue explosion sphere and the sphere of the rising fireball, and the smoke needs to linger longer. But other than that, this is so boss.

Waiting eagerly for a Seraphim nuke explosion mod.

I'm waiting for a Tsar Bomba mod.


Just imagine that **** in PA.

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since the nuke animation was updated to a much more epic mushroom cloud, that part is already here. But the Wilson clouds would be quite an epic sight to see. Perhaps those could be exclusive to planets besides a moon, since the moons have no atmosphere (they shouldn't, at least)

Who cares about Wilson clouds?!
I JUST WANT BIGGER EXPLOSIONS.

I WANT BOTH

I like the new explosion effects, but am I the only one that feels the cloud lags behind the initial explosion a bit too much? It takes a long time to form.

Also, it's weird that there's now a giant solid explosion cloud units can walk into without any worries. I figured that walking into a glowing mushroom cloud might, well, hurt.

I had a version with wilson clouds, I took them out in part because initially I couldn't think of a way to handle the moon vs. atmosphere planets and because it's just another thing obscuring the view. It's also why the clouds disappear in a kind of oddly fast way.

Also the view of the explosion is one that will rarely occur in the game because the base camera doesn't swing down that far, so I didn't put a lot of time into trying to get it to look right from that view.

Speed is an interesting problem. If this explosion was scaled realistically it would be about 5 times bigger (and thus that much faster), but our nuke explosion radius isn't that size so I kind of have to fudge it a bit. I have thought about making it 2x bigger, which would make the base rolling smoke expand to about the radius of the explosion, but that goes back to the first issue of obscuring a still in progress battle with big opaque smoke.

It's a freaking NUKE. Go crazy with it!

Make it huge, make the smoke stick around for a while, it's always going to be in an entirely destroyed area anyway so it really isn't obscuring much, but it'll look cool when you see it on the horizon of a planet.

Vanguards. Vanguards ruin our hopes and dreams!

Whatchu talkin about webster?
Seriously though, what do vanguards have to do with nukes?