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Apparently this is the new wormhole animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1-RkCCY5s

I have to say, i think this "update" is pretty half arsed, i can already get this effect by zooming in with my mouse wheel

Please CCP, either make is look different and as cool as the gate jump effect or just don't do it until you have the resources to do a good job.

I don't see you doing anything for wormhole residence for a long time, so throw us this small bone please.

Yes, that's dissapointing, and hopefully half finished. Okay, quarter finished. One eight finished... Ahem.. You know what I mean.

It's using the same art asset as the wormhole itself, so it's quite save to assume that the effect is only a placeholder and they so far only put the code in to play it.

That "effect" has been in since they started testing the next expansion on SiSi. It's almost certainly a place holder for when the put in a real animation. It does the same basic steps as jumping through a stargate: zoom in, {begin animation here}, jump (i.e. load next system), {finish animation}, zoom out. It's just they haven't got an animation for it yet. That the experience is different at all is likely an artifact of the new code for session change mechanics than anything else.

*edit: Actually, looking at it again, it is different from what was first on SiSi. And so I have to agree with the OP, this is not nearly as great an animation as the jump gate. There's no smoothness to the transition. Basically, a big zoomed-in version of the wormhole just suddenly "pops" into your field of view and you can spin your camera while you're in it as it morphs from one system to the next. No zoom in, no sense of traveling, it's basically a colorful psychedelic loading bar.

Dev tag here, but no dev post, meaning deleted dev post.

Obviously it is not that safe to say that we will get new animations, as the subject seems unstable (and in the verge of collapse ? :D) CCP side.

We almost had an update to wormhole space, almost !...

It really doesn't feel wormhole'ish. WormHOLES should be something you/your ship falls into (like a black hole).

Well... since a WH is much more 'natural' than a stargate, I find that 'more peaceful' transition quite fitting for a WH. That doesn't mean it could show that 'space-time bending' effect too, at least for giving the effect you're traversing many many light years in seconds, while being more peaceful.

I don't think it's so bad

it flows better than the previous choppy, blank screen

at least there's no swiveling camera

I watched it many times, and I have a sugestion.

Move the camera towards inside the WH when entering, and when exiting move it out back to the ship and the WH exit.... This will give a better feeling of going trough a "3D portal".

The Effects of the stars showing gradually when going from the WHSPACE to hi sec was pretty interesting, but I didn't feel the same when entering the WH... it looks like the nebula just pops up... this transition could have some work.

But it is already really interesting. keep the good job CCP!

OBS: You guys could add some red colour to the Jump Drive "duct" so it would be diferent from the Stargate.

Yeah it should be more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RswRNpUDUs&feature=endscreen&NR=1