One reason Why Il-2 is so looked foward to is because........

[DingHao2]

The Il-2 community has been provided with editing tools and information to help out the company with making new planes.

So why not release editing information and tools to the modders in our community so we can help you guys out?  Think of all the influx of new planes and selections.  And Aces High will gain an even BIGGER lead over its competitors.

If you want effort on early war planes, it'll be done.  If you want your favorite plane added ASAP, this will do just right.

After a modder finishes a plane or component of a plane, he could e-mail it to a special address with HTC.  There, HTC would decide which planes to add so we don't end up with unused types.

Is this a rip-off?  No; modders would be doing something modders like to do-and get even more in return.

And I'm already a modder for WW2 Fighters so I can start crankin' fast.

[AKSWulfe]

Last I checked, you need a FM to match that model.

You can have all the models in the world, you still need a flight model for each. You need data to achieve that, and the means to get that data.

So, in the end, you end up with a bunch of user created models waiting for FMs.

Why even bother?
-SW

[ispar]

Additionally, IIRC, HTC has already stated that they have no interest in this arrangement. This was asked about several times a ways back, and the word from HTC was "nope."

[Russian]

Thats the point. Users create "skin/plane/model" and HiTech says "ok/try again" and make FM for that model. I'm sure they would want little help.

[Karnak]

In such a scenario, wouldn't it make more sense for HTC to simply do the FMs?  After all they are being asked to verify all of the numbers in the FM.  Seems to me that it wouldn't be any more work to simply do it themselves.

I prefer having one group do the models / FMs.  It makes things perform an look consistant.

[~Caligula~]

Swulfe,why u gotto be such a negative bastard?

[AKSWulfe]

Negative? I'm not. I'm merely pointing out the obvious.

Caligula, did you somehow lose your way. Could of sworn you were too busy blowing smoke up Oleg's and the Rat's tulips to visit us mere AH mortals.
-SW

[Pongo]

But Nate and Superfly cant do anything else..
Aces High is really a make work and pay for beer project for the art team.

[Glasses]

I got to go with Supa and Nate as top notch aircraft art  makers. Although sometimes I think the models themselves are questionable I do think that it's better  to let HTC manage and control and assemble so to speak the aircraft to be used in AH. It would just create a nightmare to manage all these plane influxes from several plane makers.

now aircraft skins on the other hand, are a good idea for that aircraft you are using not a default for all seen. This would not make the issue of pink skinned P51s a problem.

[ 10-01-2001: Message edited by: Glasses ]

[highflyer]

Id like to know the poly count that they are trying to stick to.

Id bet that with the aid of other artists, AH models could start looking better and better.  

Not saying that anything is lacking, the models look pretty good for what polygon limit HTC "has"? established for planes.

[Wotan]

I would love user created skins. Maybe they can be reviewed like noseart is so you dont end up with then pink 51s.

I would love a FW190d-9 'Rot 3' JV44 Platzschutzstaffel skin.

I dont know if it should be any sort of priority. but wtf...........

[Tac]

would be nice to have player-submitted skins & approved by HTC to choose from for every in-game plane.

No change in fm or anything, just the skin of it.

[Karnak]

As I recall, HTC is not doing the multi-skins thing because they are trying to support cards with lower amounts of texture memory.

[AKDejaVu]

Warbirds 3 has this capability already.

It has been beaten to death here when WB3 was released.  That's part of the reason for short-not-really-discussing-it answers.

The facts have been thrown out there.  HTC has participated in the discussions.  Nothing new is being said.

AKDejaVu

[AKSWulfe]

As is, you can only see x number of different aircraft at any one time. After you reach that magic number, the aircraft appear as icons and dots.

I'm sure the same holds true for paint schemes. After x number of different paint schemes are shown, no more can be shown. So instead of being able to see, for example, 64 aircraft- you can now only see 32 because each of them have a different paint scheme.

It's a moot point anyway, we already know where HTC stands on this issue.
-SW