Stefan Seifert wrote:
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Curtis Olson wrote:
I've discovered that I really love the AN-2 and the new "fly-by" view mode!
I've posted a youtube video of the FlightGear AN-2 landing at Ranger Creek,
WA (taken with a cheesy digital camera pointed at my computer screen ...):
But the jiggling and motion blur somehow adds to the realism of the
video. Maybe we should integrate them in FG ;)
Actually, I agree with that! I noticed the same thing and thought how
much it added to the realism! Especially the last shot as the plane
comes to a halt.
Curtis, you really ought to pump the tires on that AN-2. They looked
totally flat to me :-)
Something I do notice though - if you do what Curtis did there and
compose a video out of "fly-by" shots and nothing else, it gets *really*
repetitive. Had a movie director shot that sequence with a real plane,
he/she'd have intercut the fly-by shots with a few "out of the pilot's
window" shots, a couple of closeups of the pilot's fact (OK, so we can't
reasonably do that), and maybe some chase-plane shots.
It's too late to go fiddling with it in time for 0.9.11, but maybe an
idea for the future might be to rework "fly-by" as an option to a
sort-of "movie director" playback mode which would allow a much more
convincing (and less repetitive) move to be made. The current system
certainly shows the possibilities of such a thing, and we've got "out of
the window" and "chase plane" options already. It's just putting them
together that's missing.
Nice work by the "fly-by" author though.
BTW - What happens if you fly a plane directly over the "fly-by camera"?
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