Space legs... More than one walking animations?

Darth Montu

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Soo....

Its been said that ship dont have artificial gravity. So if youre in space youre floating and if in a station, youre walking... But if youve landed on a world with low G... Youre bouncing?

Wouldnt it be easier to recon the whole no gravity thing and say the ships have it now? Or that some corp developed it so while on your ship you walk no matter where the ship is? And then for outposts and stations youre walking...

But then what if youre off ship walking on a planet surface with low G? Or high G? Or outside your ship in space...zero G...

Looks like theres a lot of options... What do you think they will do?
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
I'll drop this link to my recent comment on this topic, since I think it's relevant:

Which is harder to program? Walking on a planet or on the ship?

I always imagined moving around in the ships like you do in Lone Echo. Obviously this wouldn't be the case in a large station or planet though. I'm also dreaming something like that but we need to be realistic. Lone echo is a game that does only one thing and does it damn good.. Elite on the...
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pippo

pippo
zimms said:
I guess there will be a walk assist module. :D
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o2thaZ

o2thaZ
Darth Montu said:
Soo....

Its been said that ship dont have artificial gravity. So if youre in space youre floating and if in a station, youre walking... But if youve landed on a world with low G... Youre bouncing?

Wouldnt it be easier to recon the whole no gravity thing and say the ships have it now? Or that some corp developed it so while on your ship you walk no matter where the ship is? And then for outposts and stations youre walking...

But then what if youre off ship walking on a planet surface with low G? Or high G? Or outside your ship in space...zero G...

Looks like theres a lot of options... What do you think they will do?
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It's simple.
NO walking around on planets (yet) we got the srv for that.
For ships idc what kinda handwavium they use. I mean we have telepresence, so..go figure.
TBFH: i don't care about legs at all! I rather have them focus on atmospheres. For starters waterworlds and gas giants! YES GAS GIANTS!
 

CMDR Big Mike

CMDR Big Mike
Darth Montu said:
Soo....

Its been said that ship dont have artificial gravity. So if youre in space youre floating and if in a station, youre walking... But if youve landed on a world with low G... Youre bouncing?

Wouldnt it be easier to recon the whole no gravity thing and say the ships have it now? Or that some corp developed it so while on your ship you walk no matter where the ship is? And then for outposts and stations youre walking...

But then what if youre off ship walking on a planet surface with low G? Or high G? Or outside your ship in space...zero G...

Looks like theres a lot of options... What do you think they will do?
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I think magnetic boots a la The Expanse is the most pravctial way to sidestep the "no artificial gravity issue." It could also lead to interesting movement mechanics if you can fluidly switch between running on a surface and then floating around.

You raise an interesting point on high/low G planets. I imagine High G will require an SRV, but low g may allow you to jump crazy distances (John Carter style). Lots of room for fun no matter what
 

zombieapocalypse

zombieapocalypse
I'm far keener to know whether they'll produce some interesting, worthwhile content for space legs, as opposed to just novelty factor. But I'd rather they concentrated on atmospheric planets and expanding and polishing existing content first.
 

CMDR Big Mike

CMDR Big Mike
zombieapocalypse said:
But I'd rather they concentrated on atmospheric planets and expanding and polishing existing content first.
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IDK why atmospherics need to be brought up in EVERY single legs thread. This thread has naught to do with atmospherics.

Also, they delayed new content (carriers) for a second time to do bug fixing, so we can drop that old line as well
 

zombieapocalypse

zombieapocalypse
CMDR Big Mike said:
IDK why atmospherics need to be brought up in EVERY single legs thread. This thread has naught to do with atmospherics.

Also, they delayed new content (carriers) for a second time to do bug fixing, so we can drop that old line as well
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Because where FD focuses its limited resources on future content is a vaild concern. What this game doesn't need is yet another half-baked feature that quickly gets left behind when people lose interest in it (e.g multicrew, CQC/Arena, powerplay).
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
We'll walk about our ship using either magnetic boots or velcro shoe pads, so we'll still have walking, it will just be slow and either go "klunk" or "rrriiip" as we walk.
For low-g planets, we'll either add weights to minimize the bounce, or we'll just be bouncy - either would be fine.

Really, this isn't rocket science.
 
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