Friday update and discussions 2011-03-04

[Ploughman]

Great looking vids there, love the long shadows being cast in the evening light. The game looks lovely. Thanks.

I expect some other nit-picker has already said but the point of a free falling parachutist forming the D, arching his back extending his arms and trailing his parted legs, is to form a stable configuration that will allow him to see the ground, and when he pulls his release cord, have the chute deploy behind him into the slipstream minimising the possibility of him getting caught up in the cords or chute and fouling the thing or injuring himself. The parachutist from the Stuka should be stable in the horizontal (he can rotate), not tumbling, as he falls.

[Jg2001_Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Ploughman

Great looking vids there, love the long shadows being cast in the evening light. The game looks lovely. Thanks.

I expect some other nit-picker has already said but the point of a free falling parachutist forming the D, arching his back extending his arms and trailing his parted legs, is to form a stable configuration that will allow him to see the ground, and when he pulls his release cord, have the chute deploy behind him into the slipstream minimising the possibility of him getting caught up in the cords or chute and fouling the thing or injuring himself. The parachutist from the Stuka should be stable in the horizontal (he can rotate), not tumbling, as he falls.

Not likely the pilot should spin even more. There was no such thing like halo parajump training. Look how they spin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te9O0eu1CpY

Does anybody know what hardware was used for the two videos?

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Does anybody know what hardware was used for the two videos?

I don't think it will tell you much.

Luthier said earlier that you might have to leave the computer working all night to render a high quality video on a lower grade computer (recording from a replayed track, with video setting set to higher than they were during gameplay).

So I assume they could be made on a less than perfect set-up.

This post is of course coloured by my wishful thinking .

[Ctrl E]

i think it looks amazing. can't wait.

[Ploughman]

That's fine, but he's in the D, so he should be stable. That's all I'm saying.

[airmalik]

Originally Posted by Jg2001_Rasputin

Not likely the pilot should spin even more. There was no such thing like halo parajump training. Look how they spin!

Great video! That's a crazy deployment at 8:40! I wouldn't want to deploy while still on the plane.