More twin Engine flyables in IL-2 1946

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Tinpanzer87

Why isnt there a flyable ME-210 or the early me-110's in game.

Good questions.

Short unofficial answers:

Me-210 - DT intends to make all the planes in the game flyable. But, they're a very small team, they have a lot to do, and there are a lot of aircraft to do!

Early model Bf-110 - The planes of 1939-40 have never been the focus of IL2, and until a few years ago, modelers have been discouraged from making them. There's no reason why they can't be made, however.

DT has added a number of twin-engined planes to the game over the years, notably the Ki-45, and several new versions of Ju-88. There's also a good chance that we'll eventually get a flyable Bf-110G-4 night fighter.

The massive (literally, years of work) B-24D project was the work of two remarkably talented outside developers - Monguse & Buster Dee. Likewise, the He-177 also represented the work of outsiders. It just happened that the 4.13 patch was when those projects got released.

Originally Posted by Tinpanzer87

I thank the team should focus on adding more twin engine planes (me-210,early me-110's, ju-88 night fighters , maybe the TU-2) and p-61 night fighters as well.

Sadly, no vehicle that Northrop-Grumman claims intellectual property rights to can be included in the game. That means no P-61 for us .

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=192323

Originally Posted by Tinpanzer87

Is there any way to speed things up to get to 4.14M sooner like donations and research.

DT can't take donations. But, if you want you can help make the He-177 Grief become flyable by sending money here:

https://sites.google.com/site/he177a3r2greif/

If you speak a foreign language, have access to unusual resources (e.g., existing aircraft, rare technical manuals), or have detailed technical or historical knowledge, then offers of research assistance might be helpful.

e.g.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=229392

What you can do in the meantime is design missions and campaigns, and perhaps make skins, especially for the less popular aircraft. If they're good enough, you can sent them to DT for inclusion in a later patch. In any case, Mission4 Today will take anything that's halfway decent:

http://www.mission4today.com/

Finally, play the game - especially online - and get your friends to play it. Keeping this wonderful old game alive depends on a dedicated user community.

[Tinpanzer87]

Would high res pictures of cockpits help? From books?

[Gumpy]

I take it you don't use mods, all the planes you mentioned are flyable even the B29.

[Tinpanzer87]

Originally Posted by Gumpy

I take it you don't use mods, all the planes you mentioned are flyable even the B29.

gunner stations too? also what mod is that.

[Gumpy]

Yes all gunner stations playable and mod is B29 flyable cockpit with B29 upgrade mod applied.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Gumpy

Yes all gunner stations playable and mod is B29 flyable cockpit with B29 upgrade mod applied.

I've flown this mod and I'm unimpressed with the modeling of the fire control stations.

Getting the defensive gunnery systems of the B-29 right will be a big task, and I'm not sure that IL2 is up to the job.

In addition to the complexities of modeling the gunner stations with their targeting sights, you also need to recreate the system that allowed gunners to hand off control of the various turrets to each other. By comparison, modeling the cockpit and bombardier positions is easy!

[Tinpanzer87]

Boulton Paul Defiant?

[CzechTexan]

A flyable B-25 Mitchell would be a great addition, especially any of the gunship models. Even the C and D models were field modded with additional machine guns in the nose for ground strafing. One of my favorite books "Air Combat at 20 Feet" tells the story of Pilot Middlebrook and his early model strafers over New Guinea, which we now have a great map NBNG to fly over. Gunships played a big role in NG as "America's sturmovik."

[daidalos.team]

Originally Posted by Gumpy

I take it you don't use mods, all the planes you mentioned are flyable even the B29.

This is content Daidalos team/1C 3rd party a Charlie Chap (head of HSFX).
B-29 cockpit exactly this was started by Kami_1 in 3rd party for IL2 PF, was never released.
Was finished too turret positions but unfortunately was lost by crash Kami's HDD.
After take it Daidalos team, did some revisions and there help us Charlie Chap. B-29 was relased as mod in beta phase in HSFX7.
This project still waiting for continue in Daidalos archives ... this is not somewhere from SAS or other community.

Same situation was with Do-217 pit, etc ...

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by daidalos.team

Was finished too turret positions but unfortunately was lost by crash Kami's HDD.

That's a shame. It would have been very interesting to see how DT modeled the fire control systems on the B-29.