Post by timetraveler22 on Dec 7, 2015 22:16:44 GMT
So, look at birds. From basic observations, I notice there are primarily three kinds of terrestrial birds:
Perching Birds
Heavier Birds
Flightless Birds
Perching birds(properly known as passerines) are basically your average songbird: a jay, warbler, chickadee, cardinal ect. These birds are small, with little mass and large, efficient wings per body size usually stay in the trees and use flight as their main way to get around.
Heavier Birds are birds that have the ability of flight, but aren't good at it because they're too heavy: Ibis, Egrets, Turkey, Quail, Chicken, Rails, most shore birds ect. have smaller wings and have more mass.
Flightless birds(ratites being the most well known) are birds that've lost the entire ability to fly and have now used walking or running to get to where they need: Ostrich, rheas, Kakapos, Moas, ect.
What I'm trying to say is if we want wings, we have to size them accordingly to a certain mass if we want to fly. Not by slapping a pair of wings, then scaling them to Watto's(who was the flying merchant in Star Wars 1) and expecting them to be able to fly across the continent. If we could could be able to earn the wing's size to get reasonable lift over time, would make the game a lot more realistic. As well as npc's ai. If they can possibly travel more efficiently through the trees, then so be it. If the can't, well I hope they can run.
Perching Birds
Heavier Birds
Flightless Birds
Perching birds(properly known as passerines) are basically your average songbird: a jay, warbler, chickadee, cardinal ect. These birds are small, with little mass and large, efficient wings per body size usually stay in the trees and use flight as their main way to get around.
Heavier Birds are birds that have the ability of flight, but aren't good at it because they're too heavy: Ibis, Egrets, Turkey, Quail, Chicken, Rails, most shore birds ect. have smaller wings and have more mass.
Flightless birds(ratites being the most well known) are birds that've lost the entire ability to fly and have now used walking or running to get to where they need: Ostrich, rheas, Kakapos, Moas, ect.
What I'm trying to say is if we want wings, we have to size them accordingly to a certain mass if we want to fly. Not by slapping a pair of wings, then scaling them to Watto's(who was the flying merchant in Star Wars 1) and expecting them to be able to fly across the continent. If we could could be able to earn the wing's size to get reasonable lift over time, would make the game a lot more realistic. As well as npc's ai. If they can possibly travel more efficiently through the trees, then so be it. If the can't, well I hope they can run.
