River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up

Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by vmception on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:15AM (#27299947)

Accolades!

Since no one else has done it I will ask for features: sometimes it takes a while for it to determine the route, there is no way to cancel that to go back to trying a new raindrop location

Wish there was a different way to get back to raindrop location instead of closing the existing route. Would prefer some kind of click/tap-state or gesture. More easily noticeable of an inconvenience on an ultrawide screen.

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Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by chinathrow on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:21AM (#27300880)

I love it. Another feature request would be to not fly the path but just show the plotted flow.

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Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by samlearner on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:36AM (#27302275)

I struggled with this a lot. Originally set that ending overview at the beginning, but was worried that practically a lot of users might miss the main feature. I've heard from a lot of people that they were surprised it went into the 3D view, and I think some people might see the plot and just assume that's it.

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Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by leoedin on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:02AM (#27302557)

The 3D view is cool, but it would be great if you could turn it off. After a few goes, all I wanted to do was quickly look at a bunch of different places - I ended up closing the 3D view and going back to the map view anyway.

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Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by sizzle on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:30PM (#27309899)

Why not simply let users click on the map route preview window and have it expand into the full 2D route view?

The 3D route was truly a delightful experience and exceeded my expectations quite a bit so please don’t add any hurdles in front of this seamless 3D experience or it will lose the magic a lot of us are experiencing! …my 2 cents

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Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by samlearner on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:16AM (#27302695)

Hmm ok, there's a fix here and it's probably something to do with a timer and a way to opt out, I'll work on this.

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Re:River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch ... by mekkkkkk on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:54AM (#27301031)

You can cancel the animation part by clicking the close button on the top right panel.

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