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I thought that OA should have an eyeball as part of the gibs... maybe I've played too much ROTT.

That's a nice (xD) touch.
A bloodier eyeball would be more fitting for an exploding body, but that's just being too detailed, I guess.

Too detailed? That's why mipmaps/anistropy exists so such detail dont' shimmer in distances.

A nice touch would be getting the eyeball to drift down in the player's screen with an animated optic nerve, I don't think the engine would support that easily.

The eye and chest will be re-skinned.

Another nice touch would be some planes of veins and muscle sticking out of torn edges with an alphatest shader, sort of like the detail in Soldier of Fortune's dismemberment

Never played SoF so I have no idea what you are talking about.

SoF 1 + 2 are my favourite games!

I'll post some screenshots of what fromhell means later, if I get time.

Cool gibs. I wonder if it would be possible to add in a simple skeleton, with some basic physics?

That might take an engine hack to accomplish, about the best that I can think of off hand, without an engine hack, would be adding some animation to the md3's which would probably look shitty as the gibs would end up flopping around on the floor like a dying fish.

Here's an example of what I meant. SoF isn't as shocking as it was made up to be back then as there's gorier games now, hehe.

Ahh... now I see, that should be relatively easy to do.

so was a still beating heart.

arm w/alpha torn skin/veins