Don't know how I missed your post above Smittox!!? Sorry 
Ha, that's funny 
I love exotic "joke" weapons like that. Someone had a fish weapon here a while back... a Swordfish??? I have my own set of near-miss automotive stories like yours. I've had presses 'pop' and launch their stuff across the room more than once. The most exotic near-miss happened when I worked at an auto-dealer; the business next door was using a home made air compressor and it's 250 gallon air tank was not strong enough for the compressor and one day it split its welded seam. It sounded like an explosion and about a second later the compressor fell out of the sky onto a car about 20 feet from where I was. That was a bit startling! 
I'm glad you like the look Smittox :) I agree that details can do a lot even if advanced lighting and animation techniques aren't available. I remember being very impressed with the game Soulbringer; it had very simple models and environments, but did an amazing job on character animations and a moody immersive environments. It felt much more detailed than it actually was.
Attached is a picture of an assembled cliff using a new map Piece I built. It's a single, oversized, 10m tall, 4-sided pillar shaped Piece. Because the Piece can be rotated in 4 directions, it looks fairly organic (non-tiled) even though it is only a single Piece. As people using SoM know, setting the collision (MHM) file for such irregular Pieces can be a pain, but I seem to have gotten it working OK. The collision is an octagonal shape whose sides come together in any position to form a flat wall (see pic). It isn't 100% smooth when the player walks along and pushes into the wall, but there doesn't seem to be any areas where the player can walk/fall through.
I also detached and raised the top of the pillar's collision (where the player walks) because it makes the step-up transition much smoother. The pic shows the collision shape and then a couple views of how it combines ingame to make smooth collision walls.
Ha, that's funny
I love exotic "joke" weapons like that. Someone had a fish weapon here a while back... a Swordfish??? I have my own set of near-miss automotive stories like yours. I've had presses 'pop' and launch their stuff across the room more than once. The most exotic near-miss happened when I worked at an auto-dealer; the business next door was using a home made air compressor and it's 250 gallon air tank was not strong enough for the compressor and one day it split its welded seam. It sounded like an explosion and about a second later the compressor fell out of the sky onto a car about 20 feet from where I was. That was a bit startling! I'm glad you like the look Smittox :) I agree that details can do a lot even if advanced lighting and animation techniques aren't available. I remember being very impressed with the game Soulbringer; it had very simple models and environments, but did an amazing job on character animations and a moody immersive environments. It felt much more detailed than it actually was.
Attached is a picture of an assembled cliff using a new map Piece I built. It's a single, oversized, 10m tall, 4-sided pillar shaped Piece. Because the Piece can be rotated in 4 directions, it looks fairly organic (non-tiled) even though it is only a single Piece. As people using SoM know, setting the collision (MHM) file for such irregular Pieces can be a pain, but I seem to have gotten it working OK. The collision is an octagonal shape whose sides come together in any position to form a flat wall (see pic). It isn't 100% smooth when the player walks along and pushes into the wall, but there doesn't seem to be any areas where the player can walk/fall through.
I also detached and raised the top of the pillar's collision (where the player walks) because it makes the step-up transition much smoother. The pic shows the collision shape and then a couple views of how it combines ingame to make smooth collision walls.