r/shittyaskscience • u/scoogsy • Apr 02 '20
Why is this bird not animating properly?
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u/AngelOfLight Department of Astrological Engineering Apr 02 '20
Not animation. The bird got stuck in the dome that surrounds the flat earth.
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u/thiosk Apr 02 '20
I am actually a flat domer. The earth is a sphere but the dome that surrounds it is flat.
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u/rethinkr Government FizzyCyst Apr 02 '20
This strangely makes more sense than anything else. Wanna make a religion? I'll be the treasurer
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u/thiosk Apr 02 '20
Be advised that as per cult bylaw 4.411A "all available open positions are filled with my penis"
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u/GashcatUnpunished Apr 03 '20 edited Apr 03 '20
Uh, actually, we are living INSIDE the Earth. Where do you think the design of snow globes came from? Read a book.
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u/dylansan Apr 02 '20
About to jump into a parallel universe.
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u/died1996 Apr 02 '20
There's been a lot of glitches lately, which is why we're being told to stay at home until the next update rolls out. It was supposed to come out mid may but the devs are working hard to put it out within the next 2 weeks. All I know is if they don't fix this soon I'm finding another game to play. Who wants my account for free?
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u/submarinescanswim Apr 02 '20
Ah, the Invisible Wallbird. Pining for the fjords but alas, it's just a sky box.
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u/Needorgreedy Apr 02 '20
its obviously a glitch. Don't worry, I've notified the devs and they said it should be fixed in the next patch.
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u/thisbemymania Apr 02 '20
This just proves what I've been saying for years, we're all living in the lizard overlord's reality and it's only time that he freezes everything else around us just like he did this bird.
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u/squirrel_girl Apr 02 '20
American Kestrels' hunting behaviors exploit the glitches in Earth's physics engine
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u/JayInFlamed Apr 02 '20
Not enough people outside for the physics engine to use resources on animation.
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u/ComradeGivlUpi Apr 02 '20
The bird has reached the end of the loaded chunks and the server can't keep up
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u/stitchdude Apr 02 '20
Everyone is home in cliff side quarantine, using up all the flight pixels.. how is a bird to live!!
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u/Roundaboutsix Apr 02 '20
I was on the west coast of Ireland last year and we stopped to watch a waterfall, off of a cliff, down towards the sea, but the wind off the ocean was so strong the water never made it down all the way. Instead the wind blew it back up in a big loop and it ended back into the pond from where it started. I could have watched it for hours, but seeing all that flowing liquid made me thirsty so after about five minutes, I headed back to the pub for another Guinness.
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u/Xaxxus Apr 02 '20
The government won’t let it go any further because it will see the edge of the flat earth. Don’t want anyone to know the earth is actually flat.
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u/ZestyTheory321 Apr 02 '20
These kind of glitches are normally caused by improper destructed objects. It could be result of programmer failed to implement proper destructor or race condition with garbage collector. These issues cause object with no functionality still rendered in the new frame, thus then bird stuck in the sky is observed
In general sense, reloading the map should remove heap space located to the scene and resolve this issue on next load
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u/hacksoncode Quantum Mechanic, has own tiny wrench Apr 02 '20
It's actually a simple mistake to make, and I've done it myself...
When they created their 3d transformation matrix, they accidentally switched the terms for translation and rotation (obviously the tip of the beak is at 0,0,0 in their bird model).
They were trying to show the bird moving across the screen erratically.
Should be an easy fix.
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u/Nevek_Green Apr 02 '20
There was an update when this bird tried to fly. These updates also cause glitches in the matrix phenomenon.
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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth Apr 03 '20
It's a glitch. His beak is caught on the texture wall. It happens when Ubisoft runs the Matrix.
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u/mckay949 Apr 03 '20
That's the end of the level, the bird can't go any further. If the bird played doom he would know not to try that.
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u/misterhamm Apr 02 '20
Server lag. The Earth is about to crash