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Posts: 76 04/28/09 22:34:23	Tags : loading, cannon, animation, ramrod When are they going to fix the cannon loading animations? CA go to all the trouble of creating a game where you can zoom in and view the action close-up... And when you do you see soldiers waving ramrods in the air alongside the cannons. How hard is this to fix? If terrain causes the mis-alignment then just let the soldiers feet go slightly through the ground when loading the cannons. It would look much better than seeing a bunch of guys waving ramrods around in mid-air like idiots.
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Talknight2		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 333 04/28/09 22:41:11	That's actually a good idea, but there's no need to take his feet into the dirt. I noticed that the melee moves are dynamic, and the soldiers will move correctly and thrust towards enemies who are lower or higher than they are. They could use that kind of stuff on the reloading animations. Just bend the top a bit and it'll be a perfect fit.
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crisfire34		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2036 04/28/09 23:46:29 Landsman	Ive seen it when my dudes are loading mortars, its like they forgot there mortars and think they are cannons, which obviously have a longer barrel. Attention to detail!.
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thomas main		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 587 04/28/09 23:50:05	This seems to be more a product of the complexity of the subject matter. And a reason why I feel a bit sorry for the graphics people
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Sahin the Falcon		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 731 04/28/09 23:51:00	Talknight2 wrote: That's actually a good idea, but there's no need to take his feet into the dirt. I noticed that the melee moves are dynamic, and the soldiers will move correctly and thrust towards enemies who are lower or higher than they are. They could use that kind of stuff on the reloading animations. Just bend the top a bit and it'll be a perfect fit. The difference is that the dynamic melee moves tilt both men several degrees off the horizontal when they are fighting on a slope. The animation is for the two men combined. The cannon animation actually has the cannon as its own entity and has its men moving around it independently. I believe this is to allow the cannon's posture to be relatively horizontal most of the time. CA could tilt the cannon and the men together, but then the barrel wouldn't ever be lined up with the target when firing off slopes! That is why I think CA didn't immediately fix the cannon animation (it was horribly obvious in the demo and everyone loudly complained at least once). The entire reloading animation might have to be re-worked, possibly combining the entire artillery unit into a single animation like the infantry melee fights. Then, we might encounter difficulties in having individual artillerymen fight in melee. I wish CA the best in fixing this.
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mmurray821		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2599 04/29/09 04:57:11 Administrator	Putting a rubber band type command on the end of the ram to the middle of the artillery barrel would have fixed that too, I think. Honestly, I think CA ran out of time before SEGA told them ETW was going out and no more slippage. CA's ambitions wrote checks that SEGA wouldn't cash. Hopefully, CA can get all of their ambitions in there with patches. Last Edited By: mmurray821 04/29/09 07:02:53. Edited 1 time.
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Tklama		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 207 04/29/09 06:09:36	i saw a video on youtube, where mortar crew abandoded their guns and ran away. and they just started firing. half map away from mortars. lolz
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TeachDJ		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 140 04/29/09 08:09:47	I would like to see (or actually here) the cannon crew actually calling out all orders to load and fire in addition to just hearing the barrel being stuffed and the ball rolling in.
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crisfire34		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2036 04/29/09 09:55:55 Landsman	That would be awesome! and some drums and fifes would not go amiss either.
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