Friday 2010-01-29 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[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.

[Romanator21]

What was the procedure for saving the planes? It looks like everyone actually bails!

[Romanator21]

When in the video it says: "slow motion" does this mean 1/4 time that we are familiar with? Is the first part of the video in normal time, or sped up?

The reason I am asking is the first part looks too fast for a human, while the second looks a bit more natural (but maybe just a little too slow). What will be the final "normal" speed that this occurs at?

Good video, thanks!

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

When in the video it says: "slow motion" does this mean 1/4 time that we are familiar with? Is the first part of the video in normal time, or sped up?

The reason I am asking is the first part looks too fast for a human, while the second looks a bit more natural (but maybe just a little too slow). What will be the final "normal" speed that this occurs at?

Good video, thanks!

I agree. The slow motion version looks far more realistic to me.

Also I don't think you could dart out of a moving plane so very quickly, and if it were staionary on the ground there would be no need to.


Thanks Oleg for the update, and for a fine piece of work!!!

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by major_setback

Also I don't think you could dart out of a moving plane so very quickly

its amazing how fast you can move when on fire