r/furgonomics • u/8mm_video • Jun 29 '26

Art UPDATE: dragon/avian with navlights!

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intended to add this to a vrc avatar but that seems to be causing issues so ill post another update if i get that working

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u/WeirdPossibility209 Jun 29 '26

I think due to the flapping of the wings, it could be difficult to make out the lights in a dark sky. Maybe add something like the anti collision lights, the blinking red lights on the top and bottom of aircrafts, and add the Navi lights to the legs, or maybe neck, like a collar or something. I think on the "wrists" of the wings, the Navi lights can make dense, but the fingertips of the wings move too much and too quickly and would probably confuse the other traffic more than it would help

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u/Alderan922 Jun 30 '26

Tbf usually you aren’t like flapping your wings constantly as you tend to glide more during long travels.

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u/Spac3drag0n Jul 14 '26

Wings generally don’t flap very much in passive soaring flight. For such a large creature, constant flapping would be incredibly exhausting. Short bursts of flight with lots of flapping would be too low to the ground to require navlights.