Currently as most of you would undoubtedly know, when you mine out the bottom of a structure so the blocks above are destroyed, the animation for the destruction has the structure rotate around a point with in the middle of the structure until that middle point hits the first horizontal surface resulting in the entire falling entity exploding. While this animation has been alright, I believe it could be upgraded to look cooler, as currently when you topple large structures like the bridge on bridge maps, or when your tunnel out a mountain from below, or when you collapse a skyscraper in Capitol, the destruction animation looks kinda stupid with one side of the entity rising high into the sky. For this I have two possible ideas for how falling structures are to be destroyed.
Figure A: A Structure in Ace of Spades.
Figure B: The current method for the structure to fall.
My first idea is for the structure to fall over with the point at which the entity is rotated around being in the base of the structure, with the structure falling over sideways. Imagine say a baseball bat standing upright, you let go of it and it falls over sideways by rotating around the base, however when it hits the ground it explodes into a million voxels. This would make toppling tall sniper towers look cool, however for structures like the bridges on bridge wars this would still look stupid like it does now.
I saw Mat^2 new way for the structures to fall in his preview videos however I believe these would be better then simply fading the object out.
Figure 3: Proposal 1.
This why I have a second idea which I believe is far better. Instead of having the structure rotate about as it falls, it should simply fall vertically into the ground until the highest point of the falling entity disappears below the surface. However, as it falls hundreds of voxels come flying out from the point where the falling entity collides with ground. Visualise a apartment building with explosives detonating on the ground floor/lobby. The entire structure just surges downward in one piece while at the base of this falling structure it is exploding as it comes into contact with the ground.
Figure 4: Proposal 2 (by far the cooler proposal)
