Friday 2010-01-29 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[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)

[Necrobaron]

I was thinking the same thing! As you said, Euphoria would go a long way to having unique and believable animations without having to do it by hand.

Very nice update Oleg! Beautiful work!

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.

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[Sutts]

Fantastic work Oleg and team. Thanks for the update.

[CrazySchmidt]

Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the update.

Cheers, CrazySchmidt.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by ECV56_Lancelot

A very unimportant video animation error, is that seeing the high quality video you see the parachute going thru the seat. Again, its irrelevant, is way more than good enough for me as it is.

No, it is not. The seat actually is concave.

Ins

[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!!!

[MikkOwl]

Quality is great. I love animations and proper physics. There's a trend in games in that rendering of landscape and objects increases hugely every other year, the animations don't keep up - at all. In certain positions animations look fine but mostly it is by far the largest thing that 'looks wrong'.

As for Storm of War and immersion - what is really required is a pilot's body visible in first person (affected by Gforces and all), holding stick and throttle - and when bailing out, the canopy goes, the wind noise gets deafening and, when at the right moment, you get pulled out (going inverted), looking down seeing your legs detach from the pedals and get sucked out of the cockpit, leaving the plane below you. With loud heartbeat sounds and some dizziness.

[Snuff_Pidgeon]

Wonderful!!!!

[Abbeville-Boy]

way cool
i think the same animation sequence will be used for bailing and ground exit. anyway looks really good to me and is only a small part of time spent flying. so i would be happy with that for the release. i don't need my scarf flapping for now on a bail out, i can wait

[Ala7p_Wevete]

Wow, thats very, very ,very, very, very, very, amazing!!!!!!!!