admin Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Hello our beloved customers We will be posting some gifs for your enjoyment here You can share them freely more coming Frigates in the fog 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brigand Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Nice! good to seem the screenshots come to life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneironz Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 That gif showing the frigate going up and down is absolutely marvellous! That's exactly the kind of game play I was looking for! Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristianLove Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 The gif is really nice but, you might consider just recording a little bit of in game footage and posting it to youtube. It will give us a better feel for the action. I am by no means complaining. This is just a suggestion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Alessi Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 The gif is really nice but, you might consider just recording a little bit of in game footage and posting it to youtube. It will give us a better feel for the action. I am by no means complaining. This is just a suggestion. Yes please! I'd love to be able to enjoy a 2:00 minute or so video with a cup of hot chocolate, giving out a sigh and hoping my dreams will come to life at last :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johny Reb Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Beautiful. Cant wait for more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiffa Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Nice work! That frigate is looking very ominous in the distance there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrutishVulgarian Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Freakin awesome! This just gets better and better and I first heard of this game only 2 hours ago. Is there an easy way to share that gif on other forums? Right clicking it didn't give me the "open link" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Freakin awesome! This just gets better and better and I first heard of this game only 2 hours ago. Is there an easy way to share that gif on other forums? Right clicking it didn't give me the "open link" option. http://imgur.com/cw7VTK1 http://i.imgur.com/cw7VTK1.gif add img and /img in brackets on both sides of the link above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spharv2 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 http://imgur.com/cw7VTK1 http://i.imgur.com/cw7VTK1.gif add img and /img in brackets on both sides of the link above Thanks for that, I reposted and got at least a few people interested. Looks great, can't wait to see what's in store for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbydylan Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Cant wait for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Holy hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggywrinkle Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Vessel movement the best I've ever seen in a game, well done! The main target of (constructive!) criticism would be the apparent speed...she looks like she's doing 18-20kts into the wind... That's the main thing that distracts from the realism, and the only thing I picked up on the first viewing. Is it representative of what you're looking at in the final game, or a product of this testing stage? Other little things, probably beyond the bounds of possibility, that would really make this gif come alive include a true bow-wave (never done justice, even in animated films). When the vessel's head drops down into the sea, the wall of white broken water it pushes away ahead of it and out to either side is very obvious and a good measure of just how bad your day is getting! Again, probably impossible but I'll mention it anyway: animation of...well...everything! Everything moves on these old girls in a blow from coils on their pins to the shrouds getting a bit slack on the leeward side, bar-tight to windward, and swaying between the two when the vessel is rolling. On a related note, is the lack of any running rigging (conspicuous by it's absence due to the unprecedented quality of the standing rigging on your models, wonderful stuff!) in the gif/screenies down to an intractable problem with their modelling/animation, or is it something that will change as we get closer to a finished game? Final final comment refers to leaving the fore-course hanging in it's gear in a gale... Bit of a bitchy hello and first post, I know - but this game is so wonderfully promising, it's hard not to nitpick absolutely everything in a bid for perfection! Baggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 Hey Baggy Definitely everything is very early version and can and will be improved. So your feedback is very welcome. Running rigging: we are still thinking on how to implement it and optimize it so it is beautiful and does not kill performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggywrinkle Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Thanks for the response. My post really was meant with the best of intentions and I'm fully aware that it's early days yet for this project (honest!). What is already available is very very promising indeed. A bit premature for back-slapping just yet, but definitely off to a very convincing start Interesting to hear about any specific issues with running rigging. I was a bit involved with PotBS' development on the ship-building/modelling side, and always thought it a shame that one of the strongest overall impressions you get of these types of vessels (miles and miles and miles of string!) is missing from their otherwise very faithful digital interpretations. I've often thought this difficulty in capturing the incredibly dynamic visual and physical world of a sailing vessel is the main reason that Age of Sail sims are rare and often miss the mark. In flight sims,for example, you are sat in a chair, holding a stick, staring at a window (screen) simulating someone sat in a chair holding a stick staring out the window. Of course there are countless differences, but the actual fundamental experience of the real world and virtual pilots are the similar. It's simply not possible to have the same link with a sailing sim, where information about your environment is given by all six (!) senses and impact on your world is either passive (telling others to get things done) or incredibly physical! But they can portray the beauty and joy of being on a "good ship taught and free" as the shanty has it, and that shines through the screenshots posted so far, and that has got my anticipation levels up! Baggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 The main target of (constructive!) criticism would be the apparent speed...she looks like she's doing 18-20kts into the wind... It seemed more to me like she was just pitching into the oncoming seas. Swells can move pretty fast, or so I hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggywrinkle Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Very true, they can, but their movement is also clearly distinguishable from the movement of the vessel through the water. The speed of the wavelets and patches of white water from previous wavecrests etc passing by are what I've used both here and in RL for ballpark speed estimates. Heavy weather is often surprisingly slow weather, particularly with the hull shapes of this period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aethervox Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Holy Crap, I'm gonna Barf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotet Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 That's the gif that sold me on this game. Absolutely marvelous. I can't wait to put my hands on this game. Only caveat I can see is the obvious petrified sails, but I'm sure that is going to be remedied before no time. But feel free to keep the gifs flowing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Adams Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Wow really nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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