Forum 1C interview: if you could ask 3 questions

[elneilios]

Just for interests sake...

1) How did you go about researching for flight model accuracy? Did developers have to actually go fly some planes?
2) Some planes in BoP are either very rare or are not flyable, how did you know how to model the flight dynamics of these?
3) How many people worked on creating the game? In other words, how big is the BoP development team?

[butterfield]

Originally Posted by elneilios

Just for interests sake...

1) How did you go about researching for flight model accuracy? Did developers have to actually go fly some planes?
2) Some planes in BoP are either very rare or are not flyable, how did you know how to model the flight dynamics of these?
3) How many people worked on creating the game? In other words, how big is the BoP development team?

I can answer your first 2 questions. The game engine used in BOP is a port of the 2001 PC sim IL2 developed by Oleg Maddox and the 1C team. Of course it was upgraded over the years with physics tweaks, more planes, scenarios, etc. You'd probably need to find an old interview with Oleg which details how he knows so much about WW2 planes.

Birds of Prey development adds in an updated graphics engine and of course their own campaign/missions/etc.

[Flyboy69]

1. Will there be biplanes
2. Will bombers have cockpits
3. What jets are flyable

[haitch40]

Originally Posted by Flyboy69

1. Will there be biplanes
2. Will bombers have cockpits
3. What jets are flyable

there was only 2 biplanes involved in front line ww2 combat so chances r slim

[reverend66]

One word...."unicorns"

Rev

[trk29]

Originally Posted by haitch40

there was only 2 biplanes involved in front line ww2 combat so chances r slim

One of the videos shows a green biplane.

[Flyboy69]

Does anyone know if the bombers will have a cockpit.

[trk29]

Originally Posted by Flyboy69

Does anyone know if the bombers will have a cockpit.

No we don't but we do know that you can change positions in the plane from pilot to different gunner positions, so hopefully they will and the gunners will be behind the glass bubbles.