Make Hard Landing Look Cool Not Goobery

When we land fast with flying turned off we fall face first on the ground and then slowly stand up. I'd prefer to look cool when I land hard. I'm picturing something like Neo coming to rest on a knee and one fist like in the Matrix. I've tried to imagine a circumstance in which I would prefer to look like a big goober on a hard landing, but I can't think of one. A lot of avatar flying animation is impressively superhero-like, and I wish the hard landing was too.

Thanks for reading my entirely frivolous feature suggestion.

I don't see this as frivolous at all. I have had the same thought myself. Might be nice to have a "land" command, click where you want to land and the machine flys your av down to a graceful landing.

I don't want to look 'cool'. I quite like the crash landings, thanks very much.

While I like this as an option, it is sometimes fun to go way up high and fall on your face.

falling is one thing... but I've never yet had an embarrassing "controlled" landing.

Oh no!! You want to do away with "splat!!!!". And the lovely recovery of brushing yourself off?

Ditto.

When they get custom animations in, THEN you can fuxx0r 'round with how you land. Till then, deal with the splattiness.

But you have flying turned off. It's like you've robbed Superman (or Neo) of his powers mid-flight; to me it makes sense that the landing would be bumpy. If you want a controlled landing, why turn flying off?

What I try to do is fly towards the ground (or floor) and then turn off flying to land. If I turn off flying a moment too soon I splat. I'd prefer to just never splat.

SuezanneC - Interesting idea. Maybe there could simply be a land command so that wherever you were when you hit it, you would stop, and go directly down and land. That would work for me. I could fly full speed toward my target and just hit the land key. And look cool doing it. I like to look cool when I'm flying and stuff.

Moleculor - Thanks for the advice.

How about an option to be either goobery or superhero cool? I know my fat-bunny-in-a-bikini AV would be good landing goobery, but stone-hippo-boy would DEFINETLY land like a superhero.

Keep the splat. Its fitting.

Not only should we keep the splat, but our avs should leave face prints in the ground when they fall.

What about when you hit the ground your avatar explodes into a million peices, and then rematerializes...

Or... you hit the ground and it gives away a little and springs you back up like the ground did to Neo during the "Jump Program" in the first matrix when he hit the street.

Honestly though, I say put it in the custom animations and let us make our own defaults for everything.

They've already messed with the animations enough to cause enough trouble for now... leave them how they are for now untill we get custom animations/gestures then everyone can be happy.

I like the splat, but If you are in mouselook and flying hard towards the ground, then just before hitting turn off fly... You splat. It's not like I was falling the whole way.

The splat should be triggered by how far you've fallen, not just your velocity upon reaching the ground. The the speed was intended, the landing SHOULD be cool.

Turning flying off at 10 meters should still cause a Splat.

Just turn on Auto-Fly mode. (It's an option in the Configuration dialog, I forget which tab it's under.) If Auto-Fly is on, and you fly all the way to the ground and keep holding down the "down" key (C or PageDown), it'll automatically take you out of fly mode. Voila, a graceful landing, albeit not as fancy as what you descibe. (It will also automatically put you *into* fly mode if you hold down the Jump/Up key, which is either a bug or a feature depending on your personal preference.)

I found this feature very irritating when it was first added (it wasn't optional then); but now that I'm used to it, I prefer it. It makes the transition between walking and flying more fluid: aside from the smoother landing, going aloft with a "jump" animation visually makes sense.

Yes.

I almost always fly with a jetpack, and if I land when that thing's opened up I crater. I think the option of a kung fu movie style landing would be great.

I hope when/if there are custom animations that we can change the default anims to anything we want...

I thought the landing was pretty funny at first but got old after a while. I don't fall anymore just fly down fast.

Splat rocks!

Splatness is very, very cool!


Get Splated!

LET SPLAT LIVE!

I actually like the fact that poorly wielded avatars land like goobers. If you want not to land like a goober then PageDown is your friend! No need to toggle off flight. DOWN will do it for you.

whole body prints. the ground should take a body shaped crater linke in looney toons.

i love the splat. i love to "drop in" on acquantences.

Well, if you can't land well.. then you can't land well ;P You deserve to look like a goober.