Best way to blow a spaceship up?

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Hi.

Any pointers on blowing a spaceship up please? The idea is to have a laser beam strike it or slice through it and have an exolosion inside like the reactors been hit so a big explosion, then the ship fall apart and float away.

Basically looking for a nice cinematic explosion. Seen tutorials for the cell fracture addon so im guessing this could be a good start combined with an explosion tutorial from youtube? Just wondering if it can be adjusted for 0 gravity and if the explosion could somehow effect the cell fracture? Would be a cool effect to see the fire having to go around the fractured parts

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I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it sounds similar.

They use the Cell Explosion with smoke + fire. You can also turn it into 0 gravity pretty easy. I am a Blender n00b, but this sounds possible for sure.

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That looks promising, thanks!