CompuServe Messages

I wrote the exploder in C for Turbo Silver. I haven't fiddled with 2.0's Exploder F/X yet, but after reading the manual I conclude that their F/X is about the same as mine. I wrote in gravity support (specifed via an axis named "GRAVITY" in the cell files) and allow children objects to be "blown away" from the parent (translated along a vector defined by the parent's axis and the child's axis) and also "exploded" at the same time. This would allow me to, say, explode a car object and have whole parts fly away from parent (i.e. wheels fly away from the car body). The one good thing I've gotten out of this is a TDDD file I/O module. I can read object files, mangle them in any way I please, and write them back out. Now if only I had another use for that…