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Thanks Trinitron,
2. It's easy enough to script the chopping off of limbs, but it requires that the enemy mesh has a different material for each limb. The Doom approach would be to make the enemy's limb invisible, and spawn a detached limb object in it's place. I don't know how hard it would be to assign different materials to different limbs on a mesh, or if it's even possible.
Still lots to do...
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Afaik you can use the doom skins system to change materials on a single mesh, that's the way id used for the rocket launcher, the rockets are just made invisible when used by the use of different skins.
http://www.iddevnet.com/doom3/skins.php
http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Skin_%28decl%29
p.s - Forgot to say yes is totally possible and easy to assign any number of different materials to a single model, there's no hardcoded limit either, the only limit is performance, for example you can make one material for the head and then make a skin file that changes the head material for the textures/common/nodraw one making it invisible and so on for any part of a characters body, with this system is entirely possible to simulate the original BOD wounded system.
here i made a fast test sample for you.
http://ul.to/0p8usynw