I'm not precisely sure about the scale of these ships (would Craig like to enlighten us?) but I don't believe you'd be able to see bodies flying out...they'd just be too small!

Well you can use strikecraft as reference point, if you imagine they are as big as modern fighters, you might be able to see something on maximum zoom, but i bet it would be difficult to even recognize it as a human, much less as an alien

I think you're doing your children a disservice by trying to insulate them from vulgarity and adult content.  I'm sure they're hearing all of it everyday in high school.  Besides, when they get to college, every other sentence is liable to contain the evil, horrible F-woyd in in some sort of way.

Look, you just make a texanim texture containing bodies in various gruesome postures, then some other debris like pipes, desks, lockers, dogs and cats and then spew hundreds of those when a ship gets ripped open! They'd be very small, but they'd be there and trust me, it would add a lot to the visceral feeling of a brutal space battle.

Sure, it's only 2D sprites, but then again, your computer gets not to explode.

Well, that's why you make them larger than actual size. Large enough to be distinguished when zoomed in, but not so large as to break immersion.

I'll definitely test this out for the next version of the Volumetric. Nothing speaks "damage" as seeing crew flying out of a hole ripped in the hull.

It'll be weird with the Xin though... space full of frozen calamari.

Is this thread officialy hijacked?

I'm a Jarrasul Evacuator captian.

The way I see it is this: yes, I can live with swearing, but I don't have to like it. It's like murderers. Yes they exist, and I can live with that, but that dosen't mean I find joy in the fact that people are killed. I personally do not enjoy swearing, but there is no way around it, so I got over it. I have never sworn, and I don't plan to, but that dosen't make me a sissy, it just means that I have values.

Samurye.

You do realize that CanadaMan will want ones with flying Grunts for SotP, don't you?  After all, nothing says "victory" like dying Covenant.

I'm like this, as well. I don't mind the occasional swear in a game or movie, but I don't like when every other word is. On the flip side of all this, some form of swearing can actually be appropriate in certain situations. Too much censoring in these cases makes me feel like I'm not being treated as an adult but rather a child with sensitive ears who can't bear to here a few swear words. That I like even less than games and movies with a little too much cursing

COUGH DROPS ARE FOR WIMPS!

Samurye.

i guess a moderator should move this post now.  the original topic was already answered and now its digressed into an opinion thread.

There is a lot of that hidden stuff in most disney films. I once found a page listing most of them and I couldn't believe what I was reading.