Explosion

Explosion Dialog

• ID: Unique identifier for this form.
• Name: Display name.
• Force: The push of the blast.
• Damage: The amount of damage that can be received if standing within the blast radius.
• Radius: This is the radius of the area of influence of the explosion; any rigid body within this radius is pushed, and any reference within it may be damaged.
• IS Radius: Radius of the area that will see the ImageSpace effect.
• Always Uses World Orientation: Whether the blast will be aligned with the ground.
• Ignore LOS Check: Sets the explosion to ignore a line-of-site check to the target.
• Push Explosion Source Ref Only: Select this to have the explosion's force only affect the object itself. Used in destruction data.
• Ignore Imagespace Swap: Overrides close proximity explosion optimization (which removes the blinding flash from explosions).
• Radiation:
  • RAD Level: Amount of RADs per second.
  • Radius: Size of radiation effect.
  • Dissipation Time: Duration of radiation effect.
• Art File: Name of the file that contains the special effect graphic.
• Light: Editor ID of the light used by explosion. Currently unsupported.
• Enchantment: Object Effect that gets applied to explosion.
• Sound 1: Sound effect played during explosion.
• Sound 2: Second sound effect played during explosion.
• IS Mod: The ImageSpace Modifier that plays when explosion occurs.
• Impact Data Set: Sets up the effect the explosion has on its impact with different materials as the blast radiates outward.
• Sound Level: Sets the volume of the explosion for detection purposes.
• Knock Down Living Actors: Three radio button options. "Always" will always knock down living actors. "By Formula" will determine knockdown according to a formula. "Never" will never knock down living actors.

New in 1.5:

• Placed Impact Object: Object placed at the point of the explosion.

Notes

• An explosion's orientation if "Always uses world orientation" is not checked depends on the type of projectile that created it. A beam will create an explosion normal to the surface it hits, a missile will create an explosion at right angles to its angle of incidence.
• RefIDs assigned to explosions will be marked for deletion once the explosion has run its course.
• Placed Impact Objects with scripts behave oddly. Their scripts will run but they will not return values for GetSelf.
• Placed Impact Objects will spawn 2 of the selected item if the explosion does not have a mesh. If you want an explosion with no visuals, use meshes\effects\fxnullexplosionart.nif to avoid this issue.