Sparks instead of smoke?

[midtownmania]

Is it possible to make sparks when you have a hard turn?

[matt1314]

I'm not sure, but in MM2 there are already sparks as far as I remember...

[Franch88]

Yeah, in MM2 there are the sparks effects, but only when you hit something with your car; other objects, like the props and the traffic, don't have this effect when they hit something.

A similar thing can be done with a mod that changes the white part of the smoke with a texture that looks like sparks, but the result will be very bad.

[Silent1Unknown]

Why would there be sparks flying when rubber slides over asphalt?

Anyway, I thought of making some breakables, that when broken off the car, reveal sparks flying due to damage.

[midtownmania]

I mean when you turn hard that your side bomper scratches the ground. (like on low-suspension cars)

[Franch88]

Anyway, I thought of making some breakables, that when broken off the car, reveal sparks flying due to damage.

I don't have ideas about what you think, but looks impossible to do. Only the BODY objects of the player, opponents and cop cars have this effect, while all the other objects not.

I mean when you turn hard that your side bomper scratches the ground.

Yeah, I've understood that it is this what you mean. With too soft suspensions to a car is possible to make it scratch the ground in hard turns, and the in-game sparkle effect there's, but isn't so big as you want.
The sparkle effect of MM2 looks impossible to edit because it should be some effects of the DirectX 7 that the game uses.

[Silent1Unknown]

I don't have ideas about what you think, but looks impossible to do. Only the BODY objects of the player, opponents and cop cars have this effect, while all the other objects not.

I heard breakables can be animated, but maybe only when they break off. I dont really remember the discussion. Anyway, even if they cant be animated, the breakables can have invisible faces that hide the spark-animation belonging to the BODY.

For showing more MM2 sparks when turning, maybe lower the bound object on the sides and increase the "Roll" factor in the vehgyro file.

[Franch88]

I heard breakables can be animated, but maybe only when they break off. I dont really remember the discussion. Anyway, even if they cant be animated, the breakables can have invisible faces that hide the spark-animation belonging to the BODY.

The breakable objects can be animated, just look the breakable animated wipers of some MM2 cars. Anyway I imagine the result, not so very good; would be nice to see animated sparks when the object with this animation is on the ground? More looks complicated to do, and for me isn't worth neither do a try.