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Walking With Dinosaurs
Topic Started: Jul 9 2013, 03:19 PM (465,260 Views)
Iben Sep 2 2013, 03:58 AM Post #736
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
HENDRIX
Sep 2 2013, 03:21 AM


@Iben: I really really doubt they could do that, the diving might have been possible, but not really, as water is much thicker than air so the bones couldn't stand the force needed to drive the body, then the bones were hole and they had airsacks everywhere that wouldn't do too well with compression. Most importantly, I don't see a possible way for them to start from the water surface. Large modern birds all have problems with that, and they can RUN on the water. Pteros couldn't. ;)
I quite advice you to buy Mark Witton's book mate, it's extremely interesting :P He shows muscle studies and offers good and plausible ways of starting from the surface. There's a complete diagram of how pterosaurs start from the surface ( If you want, I'll scan it in ). Believe me, it's completely possible for pterosaurs to start from the water surface and even dive. I don't mean this as an offence towards you, but I trust him over you, as he's been spending the last 8 years studying and reconstructing pterosaurs. :P He's considered to be one of the best, if not the best pterosaur scientist out there. ;)

Though I can understand if you don't want to add it, it's no problem at all. :P
Edited by Iben, Sep 2 2013, 03:59 AM.
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Furka Sep 2 2013, 04:04 AM Post #737
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 maybe i'm off topic, but i'd like to see that diagram Iben ;)
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Iben Sep 2 2013, 04:09 AM Post #738
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
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I quickly took a picture of it, more info is in the book itself, but I don't want to scan in too much, it isn't really that legal to do that xD

It's shown here for just the Ornithocheiridae, but in the beginning of the book it said that they would explain the diving/taking of from the water more in this chapter. ;)
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HENDRIX Sep 2 2013, 04:11 AM Post #739
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 Hmm, not really convinced. If you compare that to how long some fat bird like a swan needs for takeoff, and it's has probably a better force-weight-ratio... Meh, I'm no expert though. :P

The catching of fish in flight kinda works, but somehow the ptero stops moving forward when he does the anim. :/
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Verdant Gregor Sep 2 2013, 04:31 AM Post #740
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HENDRIX
Sep 2 2013, 04:11 AM
The catching of fish in flight kinda works, but somehow the ptero stops moving forward when he does the anim. :/
Is Bip01 animated throughout the entire anim? That's the only thing I could think of that would cause that, either that or something with the animal's docking.
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HENDRIX Sep 2 2013, 04:35 AM Post #741
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 Bip01 is animated, of course. Yeah it might be the docking, but I have tried to remove that xD Might be because of the sync set that's still there...
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HENDRIX Sep 2 2013, 05:19 AM Post #742
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 Got the AI done and tested, everything works. :D So now I'm just waiting for the rest of the translations, and I also got to do the fossils...
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Jules Sep 2 2013, 05:25 AM Post #743
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
Iben
Sep 2 2013, 04:09 AM
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I quickly took a picture of it, more info is in the book itself, but I don't want to scan in too much, it isn't really that legal to do that xD

It's shown here for just the Ornithocheiridae, but in the beginning of the book it said that they would explain the diving/taking of from the water more in this chapter. ;)
Bleh, you beat me to it :P I was going to scan that precise page xD
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Jesse Sep 2 2013, 05:25 AM Post #744
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Experience is the best teacher

 Very nice dinosaur and animation! Can't wait to download it!
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Shayor Sep 2 2013, 06:32 AM Post #745
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 I hope you make more new anims for sea reptiles like elasmoasaurus and try to do the animals from from the series from the first animals according to their time period.
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davidy12 Sep 2 2013, 08:52 AM Post #746
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 Awesome news DM!!!!! I bet you'll have this work done before this week is over.
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MarxRaptor Sep 2 2013, 08:59 AM Post #747
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 Words cannot express how excited I am.
Edited by MarxRaptor, Sep 2 2013, 09:03 AM.
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stygimoloch Sep 2 2013, 09:21 AM Post #748
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 The anims are great.. Smooth, authentic and groundbreaking ofcourse!
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Hammond Sep 2 2013, 09:21 AM Post #749
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Swigity Swag what's in the Bag

 I can't to see the animations ingame, it's gonna be awesome!
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PrimevalBrony Sep 2 2013, 11:02 AM Post #750
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Youtuber. Combat robotics fan

 This is going to be epic!
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