Author Topic: All Flight Sims have a common mother?  (Read 304 times)

Offline Badger

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All Flight Sims have a common mother?
« on: June 23, 2000, 07:06:00 AM »
I posted this on AGW, after a video of WB 3.0 was setup as a link, but never got a reply.

It's kind of hard to make out in the video, but why does the gun sight look exactly the same as the one that comes as the default in Aces High, as well as some other stand alone flight sims?

This isn't meant to be a contentious question, or to start a flame fest, but are all of these new graphics software programs like Aces High, WB 3.0, WWIIOL and many of the stand alone game products actually using common development tool sets and libraries, which is why one tends to see things in various products that look identical?

I'm not a graphics programmer, but am curious as I've heard that there are only a few really good base products out there for development of graphics intensive applications.

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Badger

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