Carles Dalmau's Webtoon series really nails the incredible feeling of a lucid dream. Even the most surreal interactions are so intuitive, it feels like I was born to do this. He really gets what's so cool about fantasy situations. This isn't even that much about floating, but it really scratches that itch for me. Sweet dreams!
It's fine; this post can stay. It's got more votes than anything I've posted this week, so it's reaching the right people.
Oi! You posted this three weeks ago! I think you've got two of this in your bot's queue, since Cybermoe got this twice too. It happens. I have to weed duplicates out of my post queue every now and then.
A lot of times, when we see an anime character hanging from a bunch of balloons, they'll be holding onto them with superhuman upper arm strength like their own body weight is no problem. Not this time, though. It's Akaya Kirihara and Masaharu Nio from The Prince of Tennis, who are athletes to begin with, and this pose is pretty much how they'd hang if there was only room to hang with one hand. And it's the cover for a yaoi doijinshi, so there's that.
【腐】きみと by あす: pixiv (deleted), pixiv (reuploaded), Zerochan, Sankaku Complex #balloons
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It's TGS time again, and while I usually post Kukka's main show key visual, the online VR event makes more sense for us this time. The theme is "Festival held on "Game Islands," islands floating in the sky", and there's so many things floating in so many different ways that I couldn't ignore it.
(Hitstun here, testing in production! I'm trying to crosspost a complex Lemmy post. This earns #levitation tag, but some Lemmy front-ends convert the [GUIDE] in the title into a type of post flair it can filter by. @Painfinity 's original text follows...)
Hi fellow Lemmineers....Lemmings....Lemurs!
If you too are in awe of Sky's awesome flight mechanics and want to go deeper, or if you just want to collect candles faster, here are a few more flying techniques that should help you fulfill both of those needs and master the skies! This guide is tailored towards mobile controls, but these should all be doable on a controller and m&k as well.
Cloud boosting
While clouds are mostly known as a way to recharge our wings, they can also be used to propel ourselves forwards at greater speeds than the normal flying speed.
- Fly into a cloud at a downward angle.
- At a certain depth, the cloud will propel your Skykid outwards. Try to get a feel for what the best angle of entry is for each cloud, as different cloud formations can have different depths.
- Generally, the faster or deeper you're able to dive into a cloud, the faster it will propel your Skykid outwards.
Vertical flying
A great way to reach high places. In comparison to circling upwards or flapping upwards, this greatly increases the heights you can reach, while also using less wing power and getting there faster.
- Initiate a slide (e.g. by jumping forwards a few times).
- While in a sliding state, flap your wings once to lift off the ground.
- Pull back on the left joystick and keep pulling back.
- Switch to the gliding mode.
- Flap your wings.
Steps 2-5 should be executed moderately quickly and the execution order is important. If you start pulling back before lifting off the ground it will fail. Same goes if you switch to the gliding mode before pulling back. But this also means that you don't have to execute them at the same time, so don't stress yourself trying to get it in under 0.1ms like a GTA cheat code. Focus instead on getting the order right. If you do everything right, you'll be gliding vertically with two fingers pressed on your screen, one holding the left joystick down, and one pressing on the right joystick to flap upwards.
No-run-up vertical flying
The basic vertical flying is great, but much like an airplane our Skykid needs a long-enough runway to jump a few times and lift off. That isn't always possible, especially in places like Vault of Knowledge with its small floating platforms. This variation instead relies on another movement technique that allows you to enter a sliding state with minimal space.
- Initiate a "stretch". To do that, press and hold with your finger on your Skykid until it starts crouching. While still holding, stretch your Skykid to the right by dragging your finger in that direction until the white circle at its feet fills up. Keep holding.
- Now with your left finger, flick the left joystick to the opposite direction you've stretched, so in this example flick to the left.
- Your Skykid will appear to briefly "moonwalk" on the ground. You can now let go of all inputs and if you move forwards, your Skykid will slide.
- Execute steps 2-5 of the normal vertical flying routine above.
Mid-air vertical flying
Now I hear you saying: "You're so cool I wish I could be like you!!". That's great, but isn't there something else you wanted to know? "Well, sometimes I don't want to slow down and do all that preparing, I want to execute it mid-air". You're in luck because that's possible too! Think of the slide like a charge. If you manage to lift off the ground while sliding, you will continue to have a slide charge available until you touch the ground again. This means you can execute the rest of the steps whenever and wherever you want as long as you haven't touched the ground.
- While sliding on the ground, flap once and lift off.
- Fly as you normally would, but do not touch the ground. Mantas and Jellyfins are okay.
- To initiate a mid-air vertical flight, execute steps 2-5 of the normal vertical flying routine above.
In the example gif, after exiting the tunnel I briefly "crash-land" on the ground to get a slide going, then lift off the ground and continue my candle run. Notice that I never touch the ground. After having cleared the cave and being out in the open, I initiate a vertical flight mid-air to make my way to the top of the mountain.
Air hopping
Flying is pretty forgiving in Sky. But there are nonetheless situations where you need to fight against strong winds, make adjustments on the fly or preserve your wing power. In Eden, all three of those apply. In such situations, air hopping (I don't know what to call this -\_-) can be helpful. Air hopping refers to using the left joystick to hop like you normally can on the ground, except it's used while hovering in the air. While the distance you can cover with air hopping remains unchanged in comparison to simply pushing the joystick in that direction, you move at a higher speed, can resist stronger winds, can change directions much more abruptly, all while not using any wing power.
- Start flying.
- Enter hover mode.
- Flick your left joystick in your chosen direction multiple times to air hop.
In the example gif, I gain height by gliding against the wind currents, but it is only thanks to air hopping that I can actually move forwards against the wind currents and pick up speed to be able glide again, gain height, and so forth.
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And that's it. Let me know if this is useful and if I should do a part 2. Also, since this is my first guide, any suggestions or critiques are welcome, even more so if it's a technique that I didn't mention!
And remember to fly responsibly🪽
P.S. If you struggle to learn these or simply learn better with a co-pilot, I can add you! I'm currently trying to re-learn these on controller so we'll both be starting from scratch :)
I don't remember that part of Hansel and Gretel. Did the old witch put a spell on that candy?
ヘンゼルとグレーテル by 維恩 W.E.@マイピク募集中: Safebooru, pixiv (deleted) #weightlessness
This one's been in my post queue since before Floating Is Fun actually started. It looks like this girl is learning a lot about the power she has. It's tricky, because Sin:cK shows us a lot of rough sketches and none of them have any names or tags to distinguish them from each other.
Just make the main link a New York Times gift article link. Those aren't paywalled. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L04.4Yla.tf3LG-_hbGcb&smid=url-share
The 1900 Paris Exhibition attracted the world's best aeronauts and inventors, including Alberto Santos-Dumont, a wealthy Brazilian aviation pioneer who built the world's first motorized aircraft. With members of the International Congress of Aeronauts of watching and filming him, Santos-Dumont demonstrated that his airship can fly into the wind, even with a broken rudder. Some even credit Santos-Dumont with the first airplane that could take off on its own, but the Wright Brothers beat him to it by a few years by using a launch system.
Expériences de M. Santos Dumont by Aéro-Club de France: YouTube, Catalogue Lumière, Econterms.net Inventing Aviation #balloons
Mary Poppins doesn't only fly with umbrellas, you know. She's in an elite group of characters who qualify for Floating Is Fun multiple times under different tags. What did Angela Lansbury put in these balloons?
I apologize for the gap between posts here. I didn't forget about my airheads here! I encountered some other unexpected floating objects and they've been living rent-free in my head ever since. I asked about them and I'll post one when I get the chance.
!skychildrenoflight@lemmy.world makes a strong case for "video games are art", especially appealing to my floaty tendencies. I'm afraid of it because it's free-to-play and I'll never own the game and it'll always ask me for more money. Still, I find myself attracted to it like a moth to the flame. I must play this sometime.
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz , can @saucechan@ani.social take a crack at this? SauceNAO can't find this at all.
⑨/⑨ is upon us, and it's tradition to post Cirno from Touhou! Cirno is upside-down here, so this pose is a ⑥ instead. Cool backflip, but not a ⑨.
This one was tricky to source. Hana Augustine is anti-AI art and has been deleting her art from platforms that train AIs. I had the Behance one saved for this week, but it's been deleted and the other non-Glazed uploads of this are probably getting deleted soon. If this happens, I can upload a new version of this to Fedia, but I'm not sure it would federate to other instances.
Hana Augustine, Scopio, Pinterest, Twitter, Behance (archive), Instagram (deleted) #underwater
Yay! It looks like I successfully crossposted something @Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com posted on Lemmy! Back on Reddit, whenever I was about to post some art, I'd check other subreddits for it and crosspost them if possible. No need to have multiple uploads, and I want to help our airheads here to find other like-minded communities. If you like my posts here, !imaginarywitches@lemmy.dbzer0.com is definitely worth following as well.
Me too! I don't know much about Moomin but now I want to find examples of Moomin and floating.
From the title, I guess a deity took over this area and made gravity optional. Float if you want to, and play around with how floating and non-floating objects interact.
I'm on my way to Matsuricon to defend my title in the mystery game tournament. The dealer's probably has a booth for Crunchyroll, but aren't they just Sony now? Does the person who made this music playlist even work for them anymore?
Here in Ohio, FuncoLand and Electronics Boutique were the national game store chains in town until GameStop bought them both and took over their stores. Funco was known for their lists of trade-in values in magazines in the days before VGPC. Now it's come full circle and GameStop is turning some stores into the 90s FuncoLand stores they replaced.
リクエスト No.5【よその子さんでふわふわ風船あつめ】 by Co-dai: pixiv (art), pixiv (commission), Twitter #multipletypes #bubbles #balloons
hitstun @fedia.io Internet hologram, Reddit refugee, and mod of @FloatingIsFun . Retro game streamer since before Twitch, on hiatus to grind levels in being a dad and ally. Easily distracted by floaty things. he/him