Just wanted to thank everyone that have been answering my never ending stream of question and show you some of my progress.

The animated glue strength I was asking about is used here and answers to some other questions, and some stuff I actually figured out on my own

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the particles are an excellent addition to the destruction. i'd love to see the hip file for this. nice job.

Here is the .hipnc file

Now in the video im using a pre shatterd file/object which works much butter, but in a atempt to make the .hipnc file independant I replaced the file with a box/shatter node.

It doesn't look as cool but the basic premisis is the same.
Using a point SOP, setting colors on the primitives with a dopfield() reading Impact data from the DOP network, then a group SOP controling where the particles emit from.

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very nice!

now you just need to replace the cube with a giant robot