@Galeon that could be fun! i tried mounting a regular AI turret on the chopper’s front grill and it worked well so i guess i’ll make that as an upgrade thing once i get to that. i’m writing all these ‘‘would be cool’’ things down but now i need to go back to boring stuff like the main menu and save gaaaame 
@OldAccount29 maybe the performance won’t be affected as much as i suspect, it’s just a mesh with a simple material so i will be tweaking the explosions a lot more and adding more shapes/colors. the colors are controlled by a timeline so there is some red but not enough 
+ with the weird color picker and color spaces in unreal it’s kind of tricky to get the right color, especially the right red…am i the only one? i had ideas for long smoke trails based on stretched spline mesh but i’ll let that wait for a while