cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18419302

Guests:

• Leo Vansteenkiste, Principal VFX Programmer
• Edward Fuller, Senior Principal Systems Designer
• Guillaume Gardella, Senior VFX Artist I
• Francesco Litrico, VFX Programmer III

TL;DW:

• 4.0 will only have fire inside ships.
• Fires start based on:
  • Damage (when ship item HP reaches 0).
  • When items with high level of wear misfire (random chance).
  • Weapon impact.
  • Warming the ship room to high enough temperature by opening the door on a warm planet for example (technically possible, there’s no planet hot enough for that to happen).
  • Bringing already burning items into a ship.
• Fire propagation is based on fuel (surface), oxygen and temperature.
• Every surface material has different properties that affect how quickly it burns.
• Other objects like cargo or ship components can also catch on fire. Player can’t (but will take damage).
• Fire will burn the oxygen to a point of asphyxiation.
• Plenty of footage of using fire extinguisher.
• Fire can restart if you don’t put it out properly.
• Fire extinguishers have limited amount of “ammo”, you need to put them back to their storage stations to refill them. Recharge will not work if life support system is down.
• Fires can be put out by removing oxygen from a burning room (turning of life support, opening doors in space).
• Visual damage caused by fires has to be fixed at a proper repair location (station), manual repairs can only fix the functionality of destroyed items.