Friday Update, January 27, 2012

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by klem

True Chivas. It was more a comment on the way the game market has gone, how MS have moved away from the strictly aviation-geek-build-my-cockpit market to the gamers and how 1C seem to have recognised that market change when they were well down the development road of OpenGL CoD. That could have led them into a large hole and loss of the quality they had forecast using OpenGL. I think it wasn't a case of someone stealing the code but rather the jump to DirectX would explain the sudden drop off between forecast product and what was delivered. But even so, I'm only surmising.


btw I understand there will be no SDK for Flight, it will remain firmly under the control of MS. I wonder.... with it's SDK could CoD/SoW/whatever be stretched across to the civil world of aviation and take over where FSX left off? Now there's a thought.

I agree and was disappointed when i heard that the sim was going to use DX, as I prefered the quality of Open GL. I presume DX is a better medium for the market. MS Flight not providing an SDK is good news for the new IL-2 series, to gain market share inroads in the civilian aviation market.