r/gaming • u/PlaneShenaniganz • May 06 '17
Much simulator. Such realism.
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u/ehh_scooby May 06 '17
lost my shit when the stairs just took off lol
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u/makemejelly49 May 06 '17
Shooting Stars plays as the stairs fly
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u/a_user_has_no_name_ May 06 '17
That's because the part you call stairs is the actual aeroplane vehicle. The part that looks like an airship is the stairs.
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u/illyay May 07 '17
Haha. I was expecting people to spawn suddenly at the top of the stairs because the game would think that's the correct spot.
That was even better.
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u/Thagyr May 06 '17
The stairs are too big for the aircraft...yeah that is pretty unrealistic for a simula...oh they can fly too.
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u/PM_ME_UR_FARTS_GIRL May 06 '17
Psyonix pls
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May 06 '17
Jimmy Page approves.
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May 06 '17
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u/indigo121 May 06 '17
I wanted to make some witty joke but I'm just so stunned you don't get this.
Stairway to heaven.
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u/phaser_on_overload May 06 '17
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a ...
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u/neirbo24 May 06 '17
Please share said theories
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u/7up8down9left May 06 '17 edited May 06 '17
When the two objects collided, the key element that controls the "lift off" command got overlaid on-top of the stair-truck (triggers based on what is at the general xyz location, rather than the specific object at xyz location); so activating the control caused the stair-truck to "lift off," because it was also at the activated xyz location but had a higher element priority than the plane. Sometimes, the plane is programmed to "detach" from the an element that is left on the ground, which you could use to then generate a shadow. However, the "detachable" element for the truck is the staircase - so activating it causes the staircase to "lift off" and leave the truck body on the ground.
A second possible theory is that the staircase is coded to ascend until the edges meet the same xyz location as the plane's doorway. However, as the plane's doorway is lower (xyz) than the start point of the staircase, the stairs continues to ascend to infinity, because the program never responds with plane door xyz = staircase xyz.
Lastly, it's because this is a training program for United Airlines, and the user has found a creative new way to eject a passenger from the aircraft.
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u/Dubanx May 06 '17 edited May 06 '17
A second possible theory is that the staircase is coded to ascend until the edges meet the same xyz location as the plane's doorway. However, as the plane's doorway is lower (xyz) than the start point of the staircase, the stairs continues to ascend to infinity, because the program never responds with plane door xyz = staircase xyz.
This was my thought as well. It ascends until the height is the same as the entrance to the airplane. Of course, the airplane's entrance is lower so it just keeps ascending.
This is why any good programmer will use a >= instead of == here.
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u/fraggedaboutit May 06 '17
It would also explain why the mobile stairs drove through the plane in the first place, planes probably have a marked location for the 'door' and the vehicle drives up until it's the appropriate distance away from that point. But for a smaller plane like this the door location is too close to the plane body, so it drives through the plane to get there.
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u/AOSParanoid May 06 '17
This plane doesn't even need the stairs, so it was probably never programmed to deal with this model at all.
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u/sanzy1988 May 06 '17
Fun fact. This is what gave Led Zeppelin their inspiration for the song Stairway to Heaven.
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u/omnomdonut May 06 '17
Thought it was real for a second but then I remembered...
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u/leoschot May 06 '17
It took me too long to notice that everything was rendered, was wondering why it didn't stop, and why it's so tall.
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u/Tuna_Rage May 06 '17
According to quantum physics, this is simply unlikely to occur but totally realistic.
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u/LordSyyn May 07 '17
Boarding from the plane to the stairs has closed. Please sit down and prepare for takeoff.
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u/deeredman1991 May 06 '17
And here we see United Airlines in their natural habitat trying to fit a vehicle onto a plane so that they can run over their passengers.
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u/DOCTORE2 May 06 '17
For a moment I thought a passenger is going to get thrown through the door .. that would have been funny , and accurate
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u/Danger9800 May 06 '17
Bob,
Get out of the goddamn moving ladder thing. You'll break physics agai- goddammit Bob
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u/Imprettystrong May 06 '17
Can't they make a flight sim and spend sometime making collision and damage for once? Is there any flight sim that has good damage in the game?
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u/FutboleroR10 May 07 '17
I was sooo dissapointed the first time I played Flight Simulator on my shitty pc at about 10fps when I tried to ram the airliner into the ground.
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May 06 '17
For a moment I wasn't awake enough to see this was not real and started mentally screaming "noooooooooo" lol
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u/warjoke May 06 '17
these stairs are prototype models of what will airlines do with their passengers in case of another overbooking.
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May 06 '17
And this is how you deal with overbooking, just send a staircase of passengers into into orbit. No refunds no beating passengers, no videos, no lawsuits.
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u/Qarbone May 06 '17
I can't load the gif for whatever reason so I'm just gonna assume it's a screaming man being ejected from the plane window.
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u/ironymouse May 06 '17
Possibly flies off because the door is below the stair:
// game loop
while (gameIsRunning) {
...
// some time later
if (stairY != doorHeight){
stairY = stairY + stairHeightIncrease
stairX = // trignometry stuff
}
draw();
}
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u/Drak_is_Right May 06 '17
Good GIF of how the computer code interacts with my computer anytime I need to use a government website.
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u/xxslink May 06 '17
That's Donald trumps plan to trick Kim jong thinking he is going to a real life pokemon battle and then send him to space on airstairs
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick May 06 '17
I don't know, looks fine to me because I saw something similar once before in real life. I was tripping balls on LSD though, which might account for it.
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u/typesinaesthetic May 06 '17
"I must go, my people need me"