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[Ralin Drakus]

Never used the program before myself..  Two kids and full time job.  Total n00b when it comes to these things, I'm much better as an idea man and helping to develop storylines and concepts. 

 

As far as the wings being useful, Anton currently has added a couple of perks to whoever has the wings equiped: No fall damage at all and a higher jump.  These make the wings useful, but for the purposes of making the wings themselves (I think my suggestions would be perfect for Anton's wings in their stand alone state) and the race more realistic and fun I think these tweaks should be further explored.  First of all, in the current setting, the wings give you a much higher jump but the distance achieved isn't much more than you get in the base game.  If there is a way to increase the distance of each jump, while slowing the decent (This is another problem with the current settings Anton has.  While you receive no damage from falling, you descend just as fast and a normal character).  I have no idea how this could be implemented, but if it's possible to manipulate the speed of descent while maintaining the climb rate, the wings would seem much more real. 

 

Another idea I have for Anton's wings that would make them a much more viable stand alone mod, is the ability to hit the jump button again while in mid air.  Currently flight for these wings is limited to use of the Beta Flying Mod.  The wings work extremely well with it, but the flying mod itself is still very buggy.  However, if the Animated Dragon Wings mod added a function that allowed you to continually punch the jump button and get an upward burst with each strike of the button (simulating a burst from the wings), and add to that the above mentioned gliding ability, flight has effectively been achieved.  It would be much slower and less deliberate than the flying mod, but I feel it would be MUCH more realistic.  We would be mimicking the flight style of real love soaring birds who flap their wings when necessary and then glide to their destination.  As far as gaming controls imagine the jump option in The Force Unleashed, where you have the ability to have a second 'jump' while in mid air.  For this game, we could port the existing dragon wing animation for when they first take off or create a unique animation to match it for each time the jump button is struck.  This feature in and of itself is PERFECT for Anton's stand along mod, and would then make the Dovahkiir race more complete and give use to the wings

 

All of this is FAR beyond my abilities as a creator, I'm only good for the concepts.  But if any of the concepts are viable I think they'd be amazing additions to the community