Another question for those that were in the service or know those things.

If a take a WWII grenade and throw it at a glass window, will it bounce off or break the glass and go through?

Also, would a german grenade, like a potato masher, more likely penetrate the glass due to the higher weight?

Im not 100% sure but watching the many WW2's films i have they always shot and windows before throwing them.Granted it may break and go in, but the last thing you would want is it coming back at you.

Hmm, I might make the default texture bounce back and make all windows shootable and breakable. Might just run into issues with the number of trigger_damage I will need on the map to accomplish that. The messhall I am working on has 17 windows and 5 doors and I think the entity max was something like 2048 minus one for worldspawn.

I could also make it random which window starts out with throw-through break versus throw and bounce off to add some variable to the gameplay.

Thanks for the feedback.

In the 1940's, there was no double glazing, so if u threw a grenade hard enough, it would smash the window... (Grenades are surprisingly heavy).

You see them in the movies smash with a gun first, because they are leaning against the wall to reduce their shape to enemy soldiers. At that range, the grenade would hit the glass and bounce off back into the street...

grenades way a very good bit...at almost any distance if u hit a window it would break...

what have been up too sentchy ? you are developing breakable glass ???

could you really detect that a nade hit the window before it actually explodes ??? I tend to believe you cannot do that ... so I would just not try to make the glass break if a grenade is thrown in it ... and only break if is being shot at. at the cost of some realism unfortunatly.

but I also figure you know something I don't !! which is more than a probability.