There! I just explained the whole thread by just typing a title. But we all love colours so: Pros: Shows you when your turret/camera is under attack Shows you if it's worth to go outside your tank to build that ml turret, or if you should continue to fire MLs.. Cons: Cluttering the hud Krenzo will get some more work Pretty pointless so I'll add another suggestion Swimming Beauties! Anyone been swimming around with your Squad members? It looks kinda akward, so ethier are the NF and BE guys VERY good swimmers so they can walk under water, or we need an animator for it. Basicly, swimming animations for Empires, and don't say it's pointless, as Team Fortress 2 has it.. Pros: Looks better Cons: Animate it!
I always found it weird seeing how the old Gldsrc engine had swimming animations built in but Source doesn't.
IIRC, the animations are part of the engine. Once you have a model with the bone structure, Source can use pre-existing animations. IIRC, though.