APEX Destruction

For my racing level I would like to make the cargo doors leading to the conveyor belts destructible. Preferably so that a car could smash completely through them and continue racing on the track. I would imagine the doors would have to be pretty rusted in order for this to happen.

I was also thinking that the various falling obstacles in my level could be breakable as well. They would be pieces of scrap metal, crates, and spaceship parts.

Exploding Barrel Progress

These are my exploding energy reserve containers so far, I made the static mesh to match my space station theme and programmed the static and explosion in Kismet. Also the car in the video is the one I made and will be posting later. All the particles are from UDK right now and were not made by me.

When a container is hit with a velocity less than 500, the light color changes from yellow to orange and static comes off of it. When it is hit with a higher velocity, the container explodes and causes damage.

Need For Speed 4 Intro

After watching a bunch of racing intros I decided I liked the Need for Speed 4: High Stakes one as inspiration for my own intro. Specifically, I like how it starts out with the cars driving up to the streetlight to start their race. It makes the race seem more informal and dangerous because its not official with strict rules.
I also like how it shows the cars getting stopped or slowed down by obstacles like the train. I would like to show that in my level with the steam pipes and security gates.

"Exploding Barrel" Concept

For my space station level the exploding barrel pieces will be "energy reserve containers". The ends of the containers will be metal with a connector piece at one end, while the center will be an emissive tube of light. 

When the container is hit, there will be electric sparks and the end explosion will be like a sphere of electricity from the container.

Isometric Racing Map