29.08.2010, 18:50
I figured this was more or less the right place to post this, so here we go:
I worked on Pacific Fighters back in 2003 / 2004, and built art assets for the P-40B/C and for a P-61 that was never included. There were a lot of things I really wanted to see in PacFi that just didn't end up in the game. Over the last few days, I've rediscovered the current mod community and a lot of the stuff you guys have added has brought the game back to life for me. It's fantastic. Launching a fully-loaded F4U or TBF off an Essex with the catapults to go strafe Iwo Jima is something I've dreamed about for SEVEN YEARS, and I finally can do it.
One thing that is still really, really bugging me, though, is the variety of ships in the game. For a sim that lets you fly in large chunks of the Pacific - from south Japan to New Guinea to Hawaii - there are some really vital players missing, and those are the capital ships.
Between the USN, UK, and IJN, there were HUNDREDS of battleships, distinct cruisers, CVs, CVEs, and we barely have any of them. For me, playing the Pearl Harbor missions and seeing "generic US battleships" in the harbor is just offensive. I've searched around the mod forums, but haven't seen too many ship addons.
I want to fix that.
Here is my offer: if the mod community will provide me with sample models of a BB and CV (so I can mimic their structure and setup), do the research to supply me with references, and do the import and implementation work, I will build 3D models of, and texture, as many IJN, USN, and UK ships as I can cram in to my schedule. My eventual goal would be to depict major capital ships of the USN, UK and IJN through every major change in their combat service (remodels, repairs, different paint schemes), plus every major class of CA, CL, DD and DE that saw active combat in the Pacific (including the Aleutians and CBI).
First, I need to inspect ship models of a BB and / or CV that were built in the correct format for IL-2 (so I can figure out time schedules and workflow). Does anybody have samples I can look at?
I worked on Pacific Fighters back in 2003 / 2004, and built art assets for the P-40B/C and for a P-61 that was never included. There were a lot of things I really wanted to see in PacFi that just didn't end up in the game. Over the last few days, I've rediscovered the current mod community and a lot of the stuff you guys have added has brought the game back to life for me. It's fantastic. Launching a fully-loaded F4U or TBF off an Essex with the catapults to go strafe Iwo Jima is something I've dreamed about for SEVEN YEARS, and I finally can do it.
One thing that is still really, really bugging me, though, is the variety of ships in the game. For a sim that lets you fly in large chunks of the Pacific - from south Japan to New Guinea to Hawaii - there are some really vital players missing, and those are the capital ships.
Between the USN, UK, and IJN, there were HUNDREDS of battleships, distinct cruisers, CVs, CVEs, and we barely have any of them. For me, playing the Pearl Harbor missions and seeing "generic US battleships" in the harbor is just offensive. I've searched around the mod forums, but haven't seen too many ship addons.
I want to fix that.
Here is my offer: if the mod community will provide me with sample models of a BB and CV (so I can mimic their structure and setup), do the research to supply me with references, and do the import and implementation work, I will build 3D models of, and texture, as many IJN, USN, and UK ships as I can cram in to my schedule. My eventual goal would be to depict major capital ships of the USN, UK and IJN through every major change in their combat service (remodels, repairs, different paint schemes), plus every major class of CA, CL, DD and DE that saw active combat in the Pacific (including the Aleutians and CBI).
First, I need to inspect ship models of a BB and / or CV that were built in the correct format for IL-2 (so I can figure out time schedules and workflow). Does anybody have samples I can look at?
