hey, for the explosion, the video NecroDOME put on your Cyber-crisis thread is exactly the kinda thing I want!

I am planning on reading the tutorials he avised, but at the moment I just want to say, if he reads this, that it'd be awesome if he could share the code for the explosions.
I'm not sure how he did it, is it a particle system or a whole bunch of images like the tutorial that he gave the link to?

Well, if I manage to reproduce that, it'll be awesome, and I'll only need fire (which I might be able to derive from that actually), so thanks Will, thanks NecroDOME,

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