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By Lawrence

5 minutes

Blow a Ship Apart

Shoot a wing off the kilrathi and it keeps flying. Destroy its fuselage, the fat ellipsoid in the middle, and it still keeps flying. It gets chipped, but you can't kill it. Right now a part at zero HP does exactly one thing: it stops taking damage. There is no explosion, no wreckage, and nothing gets removed. A kill should end with something you can see.

Almost nothing new in the scene

You'll touch the scene JSON only once this lesson, near the end, to declare the Debris pool. Everything else here is behavior. Last lesson's kilrathi loadout already included the two parts this lesson needs — body and cockpit, both flagged critical: true. From here on, we build the behavior those flags were waiting for.

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