Smashing ships up?

[lukemax]

Is it possible to add a way for cannonballs to actully cause a little more realistic damage onboard ships? IE smashing and throwing wooden spilters everywhere?, for Rigging to fall down and hang of the side of the ship?

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":b:" border="0" alt="bounce.gif" /> Im thinking its a engine limitation?

 

[alan_smithee]

What already happens now is sort of close to this, if you look closely... there are "cannonball hole" textures that appear on the sides of ships after battle, though they do just kind of look like little dirty smudges.

Since it's a texture, or at least I think it is, I wonder if someone could make it a transparent texture... then we'd literally have holes in the ship.

And masts come off all the time, they just don't hang there.