Recent content by Lunden

Here's the scene everyone helped me render, thanks again for all the feedback! :D

Aside from disorientation and panic, I think it'd be easier to unfasten the buckle being underwater than if gravity was pulling your weight into the belt, where you'd need to contend with lifting your body to relieve tension before it could be unfastened. Definitely worth noting, however. The...

Right, and makes sense. The bronco is nearly 15.5ft long, so looking at the video it does seem it would cut through the water and impact the bottom with a decent hit if it enters vertically. This puts more emphasis on how the vehicle should move through the air after the front left wheel hits a...

Agreed, though I fold that in with execution and authenticity. You have your story and how it flows, and the research applied behind it to make the narrative feel natural and the characters both living and believable.

I was wondering if the problem with the dark and headlights on constant rotation wouldn't be disorienting to the point they might not right themselves correctly, especially given the very short amount of time between exiting the vehicle and hitting the water. Pushing out of the vehicle they'd be...

Great points, and I think in this instance the vehicle would pitch pretty much straight over the front, maybe at a just a slight angle. So I think the two would be able to clear the vehicle then. True, nice call, I'd forgotten about the closed engine and dash. Another question then, would...

Good question. Full size broncos went out of production after 1996 (until just recently). This is an older model and it stands to reason it would only have a driver side air bag, disabled/removed after all the custom tinkering done on it. I'm actually not sure if an air bag would normally deploy...

Appreciate it! And yep, working my way into those sections now. :smile:

I have a scene in a story where a full-size lifted bronco with 35” tires is sliding skewed down a steep sandy hill. The driver cranks the wheel upon seeing a ledge which fails to change the trajectory of the vehicle, now sliding on sandy gravel at about 20 MPH. The rim of the front wheel...

Greets! I'm a novelist, and as the title suggests I'm here to nail down authenticity within my fiction. What drives a great story, no matter how far it stretches the boundaries? The answer's two-fold; first in execution and next in authenticity. Nothing beats a story that takes hold of your...