I wanted to make a more “realistic Star Wars like” explosion, so I made my own material using Photoshop and nested another Particle System for the debris of the destroyed ship.
Here’s what it looks like:
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Nice job on the explosion!
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Thanks… I’m finicky about those type of things… OCD perhaps? 
Na, just good design…
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Very nice, thanks for sharing!
These explosions are so much better than my innitial attempts, they inspired me to take another look at all the possible settings. I particularly like how your particles begin small and grow over size, and have a very low speed.
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Thanks. To be honest I just researched the original SW explosions and tried to recreate it with the particle system. I used custom round sprites with a little shading I made in Photoshop. Then made a gradient for the particles ranging from yellow, red, white and black.
That’s amazing! I like the combination of explosion animation and particles effects!
It is VERY realistic and cool!
I bookmarked your main post because I would like to make conceptually the same VFX in future!
Impressive great job 
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