Hi guys, just wanted to post a quick question of concern. In a video of the PMDG 777 Beta flight, in external view I saw the engines what I call "spazzing" around instead of smooth rotation just like the NGX. So I am asking: Have they not implemented the animation YET or just done away with it?

EIDT: Or have I just missed something.

I would suggest a third possibility: The animation of the fans is fine, but when diplayed in FSX at some arbitrary frame-rate, they might create "strobe-light" style effects when converted to a standard video file playing back at 26 frames per second.

I didn't notice a problem with the way the engines look. I guess the best way to check out the aircraft is to load it up yourself.

Stroboscopic effect:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSh-au_9aM

 

OMG ARE THOSE BLADES REALLY NOT MOVING???

The Russians must be on to something!!!

Stroboscopic effect:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSh-au_9aM

 

OMG ARE THOSE BLADES REALLY NOT MOVING???

The Russians must be on to something!!!

Yeah, heard its some sort of stealth modification :He He:

Thanks for the answers guys. I didn't consider that (stupid me!). Nothing to worry about.

If you take a close look you will see the Altec Lansing speakers that transmit the helicopter sound.

 

 

Regards

[snip] (stupid me!). [snip]

 

Never say that!

 

There's no such thing as a stupid question (sadly contrary to what a very noisy minority here would have you believe). Nobody is expected to know everything. You've made a point, and some possible answers were presented. You've been left enlightened, all is good with the world.

 

If i don't know something, I ask. In online forums for anything, you will usually get an answer. Sadly you will also get a load of kids (or those with the mental age of 15) attempting to belittle and demean from the anonymous safety of their keyboards. A sad state of affairs, but cest la vie. 

 

Cheers

 

S

Never say that!

 

There's no such thing as a stupid question (sadly contrary to what a very noisy minority here would have you believe). Nobody is expected to know everything. You've made a point, and some possible answers were presented. You've been left enlightened, all is good with the world.

 

If i don't know something, I ask. In online forums for anything, you will usually get an answer. Sadly you will also get a load of kids (or those with the mental age of 15) attempting to belittle and demean from the anonymous safety of their keyboards. A sad state of affairs, but cest la vie. 

 

Cheers

 

S

I suppose I guess the forums just make me feel like that.

But of course there's no shame in not knowing something. It's what the forums are there for as well as community bonding. By the way I am 15 XD

I suppose I guess the forums just make me feel like that.

But of course there's no shame in not knowing something. It's what the forums are there for as well as community bonding. By the way I am 15 XD

I think in this case everybody was just kidding.

 

I for one thought both the rotorblades and speaker suggestion were quite funny :-)

 

And imho it was not a stupid question at all.

Not everybody is a movie maker and knows this stuff.

Saulius, this was indeed playing with the stroboscopic effect on that video, not at you question.

 

Regards

Here's another example, but slightly exaggerated because I was shooting at 1 frame per sec (you may want to turn the sound off - since it's time lapse, I used the free YouTube music to at least give some sound):

 

The approach lighting (the white rabbit in particular) was on the whole time, but you can see it's rather schizophrenic between 10-20 seconds.

 

...and don't feel bad.  This gets brought up from time to time.