Friday 2010-01-29 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[AndyJWest]

I think it is a bit misleading to look at this animation in too much detail, and suggest that it is 'wrong' for say an inverted bailout. The whole thing is less than a second or so long, so in real time, you will hardly notice the finer points - it is a lot better than IL-2, anyway. It's nice that the sim supports this sort of detail, but things that only occur very occasionally are less important than getting the basics right - though nothing I've seen so far gives me any reason to doubt they will.

Once again, impressive stuff. I wonder what we'll see next week? I'd like to see a dogfight, but more likely it'll be something more esoteric, like a close up of the Bolingbroke undercarriage as it retracts, or 'before' and 'after' closups of the fabric patches on Spitfire gunports...

[BigC208]

I also think that the animation is going to be used for a deplaning on the ground with the aircraft at a full stop. I used to fly skydivers and even flying around 80 knots they had a hard time getting out of the plane against the wind. Let alone doing it at 200+ mph. Love the aninamation and to see what wil be possible with moving crews. Real immersion enhancer.

[drafting]

It'd be amazing if Euphoria could be blended into the hand-drawn bailing out animations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae3fgj2x1aI

That way, you wouldn't have to hand-animate all possible situations, and you could still have things like the wing blowing off half way through the animation, and the pilot responding accordingly... or if the pilot bounced off the horizontal stabilizer, he'd tumble realistically.

It'd definitely produce some eye-popping 'I can't believe I just saw that' kind of situations.

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by drafting

It'd be amazing if Euphoria could be blended into the hand-drawn bailing out animations:

That way, you wouldn't have to hand-animate all possible situations, and you could still have things like the wing blowing off half way through the animation, and the pilot responding accordingly... or if the pilot bounced off the horizontal stabilizer, he'd tumble realistically.

It'd definitely produce some eye-popping 'I can't believe I just saw that' kind of situations.

indeed, that is some sick technology they have there

[airmalik]

First off - awesome video! Never seen anything like this in a flight sim before! I'm starting to feel a lot better about the landscape now. If it's on par with the animations we've seen, it'll be truly astounding.

Originally Posted by drafting

It'd be amazing if Euphoria could be blended into the hand-drawn bailing out animations:

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Some main from the start. Some - probably after. Also I hope the third party developers will be able to add a lot in future....

This is SO encouraging! Opens up the possibility of a third party developer creating a 'euphoria' add-on to extend the base animations developed by Oleg's team. This add-on could start with these initial animations and then blend into euphoria based animations which react to the environment. For this bailout sequence, the pilot could climb out as normal and then be ripped off the plane by the wind, maybe bounce off the h stab, tumble towards the ground and if the pilot is still conscious, the chute could open at which point the animation switches back to Oleg's hand made animation.

Depending on the attitude and speed of the plane, the euphoria based animation could take over from the canned animations at different points of the sequence. In a dive, for instance, the pilot only gets to pulling himself up off the seat and then gets sucked out of the cockpit courtesy of euphoria.

I can't imagine this add-on being cheap due to licensing costs but I'd definitely get it!

Oleg, is something along these lines a possibility?

cheer!

[virre89]

Amazing as always oleg , 11/10 can't wait.

[JVM]

In the mean time, for people interested in evacuating airplanes you should watch this rather long but mightily interesting video:

http://video.yandex.ru/users/prokudin-gorskiy/view/635/

Not to mention the added bonus of nice views of unusual aircraft...

JVM

[drafting]

Originally Posted by JVM

In the mean time, for people interested in evacuating airplanes you should watch this rather long but mightily interesting video:

http://video.yandex.ru/users/prokudin-gorskiy/view/635/

Not to mention the added bonus of nice views of unusual aircraft...

JVM

Wow, that's an incredible (ly rare?) video... I especially liked seeing the Russian A-20 and B-25 towards the end. They really went all out having the guys actually bail out instead of just diagramming it!

I hope that SoW will be able to mimic how violent these bailouts look after leaving the plane... (tumbling and such before opening the chute)

[CrazySchmidt]

Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the update.

Cheers, CrazySchmidt.

[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by JVM

In the mean time, for people interested in evacuating airplanes you should watch this rather long but mightily interesting video:

http://video.yandex.ru/users/prokudin-gorskiy/view/635/

Not to mention the added bonus of nice views of unusual aircraft...

JVM

This is awesome; I'm now trained to jump out or roll out or slide out of a plane. lol
No PE2's were lost during this training film. I wounder what happen to the guy that had the faulty chute?
lol the political officer was last lol.