Lighting and storm clouds

I found an amazing video on lightning in super slow motion. The documentary on lightning showed the birth of lightning and it was simply too awesome and must be created using particles in UDK. Lightning and storm clouds go together so if one of us can make a bad ass lightning storm I am pretty sure we will find numerous uses for it.

Crates

For crates I wanted to do something completely different when creating it. I wanted to reflect the world I was building. So i looked at references online. I was ultimately bored with the generic crates that were popping up. Then looking back at my level I thought wouldn't be cool if a crate can look like a viking house. So I searched the web for viking homes and here is what I came up with.

I also made a little hammer for the collectables when breaking the crate.

Barrel BOMBS!!!

 

I've come up with three different ideas for things to blow up. One may only be a barrel, but the other 2 are just as cool. In games I've played in the past I have seen many exploding objects. There has been crystals that have exploded, land mines, barrels, the whole 9, and I have decided to make all three. I've gathered up a lot of reference for the crystal bomb in particular.

 

For the barrel I tried to go through a more viking route, but with a touch of modern.

 

I saw underwater explosives in a movie once and I thought they were really cool. I did some research on the looks and here is what I found.