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P-40B for MSFS
- Thread starter jankees
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It is interesting and a bit wild to see such detailed models being cranked out by seemingly new developers. I 'member back in the day, developers were up in arms about the additional texture layers needed to create high-fidelity models in FSX and that coding such aircraft required a 2-year associates degree in decoding an underwhelming SDK. Have these issues been resolved so effectively with some combination of internal (MS) and external (e.g. Adobe) tools that the bar to entry is no longer so high?
Sundog
SOH-CM-2026
No, it isn't easier, IMHO. Although, there is a lot of software that you can download that is open source you can use to develop now, so entry into development doesn't cost you thousands of dollars invested in software to join the club. I also think it's just that there are more cross platform developers as well. I think some of these developers have developed for other sims, but they're coming over to MSFS now due to the size of the market. I should also add, "Nice P-40B, one of my favorites." I'll have to read the reviews to see if I'm getting it.
Mach3DS
Charter Member
I think what we're seeing is a new generation of interest. And the "old guard" being a little slow at the up take. The Gamer industry is full of these guys. I think that groups like A2A are going to miss the flying boat so to speak. unless external systems are supported relatively soon, I don't see how they are going to make an "accu" anything with the same fidelity as was with FSX/P3D. This current MSFS isn't at the same level of fidelity. Looks great, but is not a better "sim" yet.
jetstreamsky
Charter Member
External flights models aren’t excluded, the Flyinside Bell 47 is an example of that.
warchild
Charter Member
That aint no lie.. basically, MSFS IS a repackaged recompiled, slightly modified ( de-clawed ) version of FSX/P3D..
It's frustrating..
DC1973
Members +
While I'm sure they'll respond for themselves here soon, I'm afraid that I am partly responsible for the appearance of "Big Radials", in that I encouraged their founder to go for it and build a commercial aircraft for sale on MSFS
The reason it's possible is down to a combination of decent, hard-working developers communicating and helping each other out, which we've been doing for some time now on a private Discord channel; the tireless assistance of Asobo in helping us learn the SDK and our developing of a Blender exporter for MSFS, which was mostly championed and created by Otmar at Wing 42; and the availability of freeware packages such as Blender, GIMP and others that allow devs to learn without the crippling expenditure that was often required in the past.
But it's no easy task, and there are really only a few aircraft developers out there with the skills to go all the way, most of whom you have already heard of. Big Radials is one of the new ones who learned and worked for many months to produce their aircraft, and they've done an outstanding job, I think. The P-40 is their first aircraft, but it won't be their last
