Friday 2010-10-22 Dev. update and Discussion

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Sorry, I see what you mean.

They used aerial images My mistake.

There were a large number of aerial images taken around the time of 1940 (and before as well) and these were used by the team behind WoP extensively. Have you used these too?

When I was asking them for the photos of Dover that they were using they only said that they used the sattelite map... That wasn't interesting for me. And they didn't give me even that photo.
Next time I will think about other forms of business when I'll give the source code and all our own models to third parties for their projects.

I have a lot of photos of Dover from different altitudes and views how it was looking in 1930-40.
There is so many things in reality.... that we even can't model for that time... but it is a bit more detailed that you may find in any other sim.

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

When I was asking them for the photos of Dover that they were using they only said that they used the sattelite map... That wasn't interesting for me. And they didn't give me even that photo.
Next time I will think about other forms of business when I'll give the source code and all our own models to third parties for their projects.

I have a lot of photos of Dover from different altitudes and views how it was looking in 1930-40.
There is so many things in reality.... that we even can't model for that time... but it is a bit more detailed that you may find in any other sim.

So, if I read you correctly Oleg, a team that built its brand new game on YOUR engine code, (and I am sure that you did give them good advice from time to time), and got lots of good reviews and good sales, turned Oleg Maddox down when he asked for a picture ? And we all dream of a "sim community" that would be "friendly competitive" so this genre will be living for a long time....
That's beyond disapointment...

Anyway, you do like you allways did, raise the bar so high that it will be easier for others to just crawl under !

Salute !

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

When I was asking them for the photos of Dover that they were using they only said that they used the sattelite map... That wasn't interesting for me. And they didn't give me even that photo.
Next time I will think about other forms of business when I'll give the source code and all our own models to third parties for their projects.

I have a lot of photos of Dover from different altitudes and views how it was looking in 1930-40.
There is so many things in reality.... that we even can't model for that time... but it is a bit more detailed that you may find in any other sim.

What horrible people; no wonder the development process of WoP is so poor.

You've done excellent work with this Oleg though; thanks for sharing so much with us At Hawkinge Battle of Britain Museum here in Kent, they have a large number of period aerial shots of various airfields and countryside IIRC. Unfortunately, one can't take pictures here, however if you e-mailed the museum they might be able to supply copies of the pictures. If you are interested, that is