[simpits-tech] What is this ?

[Matt Bailey]

As I understand it, they're just using X-Plane's scenery engine.....which I 
find *very* strange, as scenery is probably X-Plane's single weakest point. 
There's a new system under development (the initial implementation can be 
seen in the latest 8.x versions of X-Plane), but it had not been released at 
the time FighterOps was announced, and I very much doubt they were given 
access to the new technology when they licensed the X-Plane stuff because 
what we're seeing now in 8.x is pretty much bleeding edge and it has a ways 
to go yet.

The system that was around when FighterOps licensed the stuff is very very 
outdated and inflexible. If these folks are seriously using this obsolete 
technology without extensive modifications (read: a total overhaul, which 
would make licensing the tech in the first place pretty pointless), I have 
serious doubts as to the success of the sim. Let's hope there's more to the 
situation than meets the public eye.

Random theory: perhaps the FighterOps people are getting access to the latest 
v8 scenery development as part of the license deal. It seems strange they'd 
put much into a system that they had not yet seen, but who knows.

	-Matt Bailey

On Monday 11 July 2005 11:07, Joseph Fagner set 1,000 monkies in front of 
keyboards and came up with the following:
> No, this is a whole new flight sim based on X-plane.  It's being done by a
> group who was with G2i and then had a falling out (imagine that).  The
> original fighter ops was to be based on the code G2i was doing for Falcon
> 4. When G2i had it's falling out with Atari, they started up fighterops. 
> Then there was a falling out within fighterops and G2i was sent packing and
> the rest started over using X-plane as the basis for their flight sim
> instead of the falcon based code G2i was using.
>
> It's to be an ongoing project starting with a training aircraft.  It's
> meant to be modular in that you will add different aircrafts as you advance
> in the training.
>
> Jay