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[immibis]

I've noticed that when a windmill is built, it shows the following animation once:

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Then it alternates between these two frames until it is destroyed:

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Why is this?

[radish]

At first it's spinning to point in the direction of the wind, and then it is just spinning.
Actually I do not know...

[beekay]

I always figured the same as radish. First it rotates to face the wind, then it... rotates.

[Retro]

I always figured it was like setting up a sentry gun in TF2 or something where it takes a second for all the mechanical parts to whirl together until it's a plain old windmill and then begins spinning regularly as if nothing ever happened.

Spah sappin' mah windmill!

[Quatch]

The plane of rotation is actually horizontal, you just need to screw the tower into the ground to start. Thats why it can hookup through a floor layer.

[Itnetlolor]

I wonder if there's a way to make it so that animation replaces the other optionally?

It could make my airship at least look that much cooler.

[immibis]

The plane of rotation is actually horizontal, you just need to screw the tower into the ground to start. Thats why it can hookup through a floor layer.

Sigged

[They Got Leader]

Its spinning once in a horizontally once, then it starts to spin vertically. That's what you are seeing. As to why? I don't know. Ask Toady.

[G-Flex]

It doesn't really make any sense to retain the first animation given, since you're viewing it from the top-down. Obviously, the windmill shouldn't spin horizontally, and if you note the tiles it actually occupies, it doesn't.

[immibis]

It doesn't really make any sense to retain the first animation given, since you're viewing it from the top-down. Obviously, the windmill shouldn't spin horizontally, and if you note the tiles it actually occupies, it doesn't.

Windmills occupy a 3x3 area.

[G-Flex]

Wait, seriously? Damn. I think I was thinking of water wheels.

Still, I think it makes more sense to animate them from a top-down angle, since that's basically how you're seeing them anyway.

[Neruz]

It doesn't really make any sense to retain the first animation given, since you're viewing it from the top-down. Obviously, the windmill shouldn't spin horizontally

Orly.

[G-Flex]

Yes, really.

The reason you're seeing them there in that fashion is because the perspective is a shallow angle. Note that because of this, the windmill's graphical representation overlaps tiles the windmill itself does not exist on, which doesn't really happen in DF, since everything is top-down, i.e. every tile you see the windmill is on, the windmill is actually on.

[Neruz]

What i'm saying is that a vertical windmill, although probably not as efficient as a horizontal one, can look kind of cool anyway as you can see from the pic from AoM.


Having it spin horizontally would also make it make sense to be 3x3.

[G-Flex]

You're right, I completely missed the actual point of that image. I was focusing too much on the perspective to actually notice that it's oriented differently from a traditional one.

So yeah, that kind of thing would work, although I'm not really sure why you'd design it that way - maybe so it can capture wind as effectively regardless of its direction?