What's the method for having an object disappear after you apply an explosion effect to it?,e.g..
a water tower disintergrating after being hit by a laser beam or part of the ground after being hit by a bomb or what ever..or another way to ask is how do you blow an object out of the sky if you have and aerial shoot out?

The included pic is an example of a basic Explosion used in several of my combat images. The debris field is a sphere of leaves, with a glow shader applied. The denser inner explosion is the same with more glow. There is a point light inside to add more color, and the outer smoke is a cloud sphere. Applying more smoke, point lights inside, and several spot lights outside you can create some pretty interesting effects.

Downside; since the debris field is very complex and uses a glow shader, this one explosion can double your render times, because of anti-aliasing.

Thanks a lot for the info