Pendulum Jump Fully demonstrated in flash player

[easy rider]

Hey Guys,
I spent an hour doing a bodge job in Flash of how to do a pendulum jump for those wanting to know:

Click: http://chris.m.whittaker.googlepages...ndulumJump.swf

Or embedded in webpage here: http://chris.m.whittaker.googlepages.com/pendulumjump
(Flash player Required)

[kiter_ryan]

Thats cool, and would be useful 4 noobs.. could put in wind direction?

Think marman did 1 as well

[easy rider]

Thanks I'll put in wind direction....

Anymore comments and I'll add it!

[rasga]

There should be some flash stuff re:landboarding here:

http://www.kiteatb.co.uk/category/basics/

[easy rider]

Decided to play a bit more with the flash and made him do the can-can and do a flip in the air wooo! lol

[rasga]

A tip dude, I'd embed it as for some folks with flash player like me on my mac it just downloads and excel trys to use it!

[dig412]

Very nice, i'm making something like that for the 'interactivty' section of my ict coursework.

[easy rider]

Thanks Dig! I did in in a spare hour I had at work

If anyone has a mac and its opening in Excel?? (WTF?! lol), I've hosted
the flash on my webspace here:
http://chris.m.whittaker.googlepages.com/pendulumjump

Cheers

[rasga]

Yeah excel seems to want to take ownship of swf, as ive only got the flash plugin, not the download version

[easy rider]

Can't you change the File Types (extensions) like in windows so that swf's are opened using Safari or IE or whatever mac uses as a browser rather than excel?

[rasga]

Probably but never need to open them without, i'm not as akin to my mac as i am to windows!

Good effort though, perhaps if the lines were moving as he ran?

[easy rider]

Lol, I think I've done as much as I can with the lines, was a little hard getting both the kite and both lines moving in sync, let alone the little guy doing the flips etc! lol

[ADZ]

only one problem with it,
if ya fly ya kite that low in a pendulum, your gonna get some serious down wind drag and not the desired pendulum affect,

excellent idea though!!!!!!

[easy rider]

Yeah, it is a bit low, but I thought I'd over exadurate the movement. I can always redo the kite's movement - but you can get the general idea from this.
Thanks for the comment

[Wipeout_Rob]

Cool idea, the stick man seems 2 jump at the wrong time though! shouldn't he be lifted into the air when the kite is turned left and not when he's redirecting?