Gameplay trailer fail : V

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:12 pm

just noticed.... isn't the windmill in the trailer (just after the Dragon Shout) turning in the wrong direction....
and why is it turning WITHOUT ITS SAILS

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:21 am

No. It's mirrored.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:12 am

Not this again...

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:18 am

There's a dead Argonian stuck in its cogs.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:02 am

Yeah people have noticed this before, I say it's meant to be this way and that the windwill is an entrance to a parralel world :blink:

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:50 am

Yeah people have noticed this before, I say it's meant to be this way and that the windwill is an entrance to a parralel world :blink:

0_0

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:34 pm

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1177656-backwards-windmill-in-trailer/page__hl__windmill+backwards

The search button is fun times... :whistling:

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:09 pm

This subject has been discusse as many times as the "like" button of the Skyrim trailer on youtube as been hit.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:41 am

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1177656-backwards-windmill-in-trailer/page__hl__windmill+backwards

The search button is fun times... :whistling:

Just you being here in our presents is already enough, but if want to spread some wisdom, go ahead Mr. Howard.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:11 pm

just noticed.... isn't the windmill in the trailer (just after the Dragon Shout) turning in the wrong direction....
and why is it turning WITHOUT ITS SAILS

Windmills in Tamriel are powered by magic, not wind. The vanes are actually a holdover from older wind-powered windmills; over time magic was used to improve upon the technology which made the vanes redundant. Most windmills still possess vanes, however, but this is simply for aesthetics and tradition - and it does mark a mill as a mill, otherwise it's just a nondescript tower.

This also explains why the vanes are going backwards, many people no longer understand the original mechanics and are just interested in having the vanes.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:34 am

I feel kind of evil for seeing this and thinking "yay it's this thread again!" It was so fun reading it the last time. I wonder if they will fix this by the time the game releases.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:42 pm

windmills turn whichever direction the wind is blowing, also there are windmills that dont have sails

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:30 am

Just you being here in our presents is already enough, but if want to spread some wisdom, go ahead Mr. Howard.

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You uncovered my identity!...or did you? :bolt:

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:31 pm

Windmills in Tamriel are powered by magic, not wind. The vanes are actually a holdover from older wind-powered windmills; over time magic was used to improve upon the technology which made the vanes redundant. Most windmills still possess vanes, however, but this is simply for aesthetics and tradition - and it does mark a mill as a mill, otherwise it's just a nondescript tower.

This also explains why the vanes are going backwards, many people no longer understand the original mechanics and are just interested in having the vanes.

What a load of... Skyrim!
As a Dutch windmill expert I am deeply offended.

:whistling:

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:39 pm

Search function fail. There has been a topic on this every day since the trailer was released.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:28 pm

You're about four months late with this my friend.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:32 pm

just noticed.... isn't the windmill in the trailer (just after the Dragon Shout) turning in the wrong direction....
and why is it turning WITHOUT ITS SAILS

This scene was meant to be the other way round (panning from right to left) but they found it looked better from left to right so they just reversed it.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:05 pm

Wouldn't it depend on the hemisphere we're in? To the best of my knowledge, there have been no efforts (by developers or otherwise) to give Tamriel a specific position on the globe - only in relation to other continents.

Then again, has anybody tried using the latitude and longitude lines on the http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/gallery_files/redguard_map.jpg to try and do this? :hehe:

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:40 pm

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1177656-backwards-windmill-in-trailer/page__hl__windmill+backwards

The search button is fun times... :whistling:

Beaten to it. Try using the search button next time.

Also why is it a fail? I guess that would mean the entire TES universe is a fail since there is no such thing as magic and walking talking lizards and cats. So who is to say the physics world is not different in Tamriel and things work different or backwards?

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:10 pm

I guess that would mean the entire TES universe is a fail since there is no such thing as magic and walking talking lizards and cats. So who is to say the physics world is not different in Tamriel and things work different or backwards?

I remember somebody once tried to defend Oblivion's shoddy ragdoll physics by suggesting that gravity was weaker on Nirn than it was on Earth. Could you imagine? :lol:

:mellow:

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:30 pm

Wouldn't it depend on the hemisphere we're in? To the best of my knowledge, there have been no efforts (by developers or otherwise) to give Tamriel a specific position on the globe - only in relation to other continents.

Then again, has anybody tried using the latitude and longitude lines on the http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/gallery_files/redguard_map.jpg to try and do this? :hehe:

Dude, do you even have an idea how a windmill works? :wave: Have you ever seen a fan? A fan spins and blows the air because of it, and if you would blow the air on a fan it would spin. So a windmill is a huge fan. Something like that :spotted owl:

You are talking about water in a basin. It spins in different directions in different hemispheres because of the Earth's spin. I even used to remember the name of that effect :geek:

EDIT: Oh, that emoticon is a "wave"? I was absolutely sure it stands for a guy banging his head with his hand lol

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:33 pm

No. It's mirrored.

This scene was meant to be the other way round (panning from right to left) but they found it looked better from left to right so they just reversed it.

I sincerely doubt it is mirrored, and even if it were it wouldn't change the spinning direction of the blades.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:13 pm

Dude, do you even have an idea how a windmill works? :wave:

Unfortunately, I don't. Outside of Don Quixote and helping my younger brother with an Environmental Science worksheet once, my knowledge of windmills and wind currents isn't very well-founded.

God help my brother.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:04 pm

I sincerely doubt it is mirrored

A dev said so.

» Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:21 am

It was so fun reading it the last 5 times.

Fixed that for ya.