Friday 2010-07-02 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by David603

I am very interested by this picture. Are all these Blenhiem's flying in formation, or is this several formations flying close together, as can be done with the 4 aircraft formations in Il2?

There are possible various.

here is fomations. Shot is done by tele-zoom that would bring closer background (aircft on the background).

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

There are possible various.

here is fomations. Shot is done by tele-zoom that would bring closer background (aircft on the background).

Uhmm, i dont understand well your answer, but since i´m also very interested on the question made i refrase the question.

I beleive David asked if its a single flight of 12 bombers, or if its three flights of four bombers?. He ask if you can now increase the number of planes of a single flight, insted of having a limit of four planes per flight like we do have now in IL-2?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by ECV56_Lancelot

Uhmm, i dont understand well your answer, but since i´m also very interested on the question made i refrase the question.

I beleive David asked if its a single flight of 12 bombers, or if its three flights of four bombers?. He ask if you can now increase the number of planes of a single flight, insted of having a limit of four planes per flight like we do have now in IL-2?

We have many types of formations. the amount in one formation may depends of historical setting. In general currently AI engine in that part of code support up to 40 aircraft in one formation. In future we may change it for more if neccessary.
Inside the one big formation we may have different types of small formations (don't know how to say it right in English).

Enough said for now... too early to open all playing cards

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

We have many types of formations. the amount in one formation may depends of historical setting. In general currently AI engine in that part of code support up to 40 aircraft in one formation. In future we may change it for more if neccessary.
Inside the one big formation we may have different types of small formations (don't know how to say it right in English).

Enough said for now... too early to open all playing cards

This clarify a lot. For what i understand, now on the FMB we can put in a single flight up to 40 aircraft, and the aircrafts will automatically separate in diferent types of formations.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by ECV56_Lancelot

This clarify a lot. For what i understand, now on the FMB we can put in a single flight up to 40 aircraft, and the aircrafts will automatically separate in diferent types of formations.

Something like this

[David603]

Originally Posted by ECV56_Lancelot

This clarify a lot. For what i understand, now on the FMB we can put in a single flight up to 40 aircraft, and the aircrafts will automatically separate in diferent types of formations.

Thanks for clarifying my question. I was going to edit my original post but Oleg had already answered, and I took his answer to mean that the formations were still limited to 4 aircraft.

This is very good news. Imagine leading a squadron of 16 fighters on a fighter sweep

[Il2Pongo]

Oleg takes the other hand out from behind his back...bam
to all the clowns that said this looked like IL2. LOL
It is a great contrast between the 109(looks like an unweathered scale model) and the Hurricane, (looks like a picture, only the quality of the shot gives it away)
I imagine with a quick look, 80% of people would think that was a picture.

Now all the smoke experts come out.

[RyansPlace]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

We have many types of formations. the amount in one formation may depends of historical setting. In general currently AI engine in that part of code support up to 40 aircraft in one formation. In future we may change it for more if neccessary.
Inside the one big formation we may have different types of small formations (don't know how to say it right in English).

Enough said for now... too early to open all playing cards

Oleg: First time posting here. Excellent job with the series so far. I'm a huge fan! Would you consider putting a tool in the sim that would allow players to create custom formations? There were so many different SOPs and methods of organizing air wings on all sides. Rather then try to include a limited selection of formations in the game, allow players to create there own and make them exportable files as are aircraft skins and missions. That alone greatly expands the possibilities for much more epically scaled missions. Such as the London blitz campaign or simply the recreation of a red star formation with a flight of Yaks for a victory parade over Moscow, for example.

I spent the better part of a year trying to make a large bomber formation in 1946. Its proven impossible in the current version of the sim...
COMBAT BOX – LEAD GROUP (A)

COMBAT BOX – HIGH GROUP (B)

COMBAT BOX – LOW GROUP (C)

COMBAT WING – Consisting of three Combat boxes

Below are blown up images that are found at the bottom of the combat wing slide for your reference.

COMBAT WING – Top View

COMBAT WING – Tail View

COMBAT WING – Left Side View

COMBAT WING - Below and angled view

-Ry

[Sutts]

Wow, that's a lovely piece of work Ryan, well done!

One day.......

Jeez Ryan, what a great idea!!