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C3pa
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Animated doors

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A really great feature would be animated doors. It' s a nice thing and if I am correct, it might be implemented in the same way as animated containers/herbalism.
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...But doors are animated. Unless you're talking about door with cell transitions, in which case that's a lot more work than you might think. Or actor door-opening animations, which I imagine would be a pain when that includes anything from bar doors to regular doors to massive gates.
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Probably he just means Oblivion-style doors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1NTlm4JTg
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I was thinking in the Cell to Cell animated door type like Skyrim.
https://youtu.be/kyRXLZFsx5o?t=996
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Seeing as cell transition loading screens are practically non-existent, this can arguably be seen as merely a waste of the player's time.
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Amenophis wrote: 15 Feb 2019, 13:03 I was thinking in the Cell to Cell animated door type like Skyrim.
https://youtu.be/kyRXLZFsx5o?t=996
I doubt that we need it - we have an interiors preloading, so transitions are almost instant, and an artifitial delay during cell transition will be boring.
An animated containers feature is a bit different - here we can play most of animation in the background.
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akortunov wrote: 15 Feb 2019, 14:26
Amenophis wrote: 15 Feb 2019, 13:03 I was thinking in the Cell to Cell animated door type like Skyrim.
https://youtu.be/kyRXLZFsx5o?t=996
I doubt that we need it - we have an interiors preloading, so transitions are almost instant, and an artifitial delay during cell transition will be boring.
An animated containers feature is a bit different - here we can play most of animation in the background.

It seems you are right.
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The opening animation isn't supposed to hide loading, even if I can load the interior in one nanosecond I would still enjoy it. Otherwise my character is just staring at a closed door, then magically teleports inside? Doesn't make any sense. At least the short animation gives the illusion of you entering the cell.
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