UFOPEDIA: Alien Reproduction

[luke83]

"You could create an object that is animated and looks like smoke.
Note that "real" smoke spreads, goes thinner over time, and gives stun damage to units. And there are no fields in a MAP file to add smoke to it, they just describe objects (4 per tile). Smoke, fire, shading is added at runtime."
Bummer i thought it would look spooky

[Daiky]

Personally I think alien bases could use just more variation in general. Maybe even a different base "style" for each race.. don't know.
That way the base becomes spooky, just because you enter something unknown, something totally different each time.