Thanks, guys. I guess I'll really have to consider re-writing certain scenes in the script. I'm definitely taking another look at that whole "escape route" scene now. Perhaps she could teleport out of there, instead of blasting off from the rooftop in her ship? I thought it made for a much more dramatic scene (showing the ship speeding away from the carnage), but you're definitley right about the inconsistancy it exposes. One thing I must take into consideration here, however, is my limited processing power. I know doing things like that shockwave would definitely improve the shot, but I must weigh the "pros and cons" of doing such effects. If it were possible to do in post, then I'd have no problems, but it's not. The heavy particles involved in the explosion itself put a lot of strain on the network, and doing the shockwave the way I wanted to would tax my resources even further. Considering how much more needs to be done before the movie goes to post, I'm not sure it would be worth the extra time. I only have a very small renderfarm to pull from, and adding more boxes right now to speed things up isn't an option. So I'm a bit limited on what I can really do here in that respect. If I could afford to add, say, 3 to 5 more boxes to the network, I'd have no problem going that extra mile. ;-) Great points all around, guys! You definitely got my attention. :-)

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