Executive Producer Skystreak Productions Jason_Williams Posted December 28, 2023 Executive Producer Skystreak Productions Share Posted December 28, 2023 Quote DD 05 Dear Pilots, Welcome to the last Developer Diary of our inaugural year. What a first year it has been! We’ve managed to form a team, set initial goals, build assets, establish a community, setup lines of communication, get a plane flying in the engine and lay the technical ground work for our playable prototype. We have a long road ahead, but we’re on the road or perhaps I should say that we’re taxing towards takeoff? That’s probably a better analogy. This developer diary highlights more progress with building important assets that we’ll need and it marks a turning point in our internal and external operations that we’ll speak more about after the turn of the new year. We’re planning some new initiatives that we think you’ll be interested in along with pursuing additional development partnerships that can aid us in our journey. So stay tuned. Now on to the fun stuff! Big ‘E’ Work on the Enterprise continues and our development partners DigitalForms is making rapid progress on her. We’re making sure to add sufficient detail so the ‘Big E’ will look as impressive as she was in real life. IJN Akagi The Akagi is also making strong progress and her island is now taking shape. A much smaller island than the Enterprise, but what an iconic and beautiful vessel she will be when completed. Midway Buildings Our work to make Midway as realistic as possible continues and more 3D work by Carl and research by Jason has uncovered more of the story. Understanding what buildings were there during the battle is quite the mystery. Just one example is the famous seaplane hangar. Much has been said about it being bombed during the battle, but very little has been said about what happened after. Turns our it was re-built, but only half of it was! The original hangar was twice as large as we thought it was initially. Further research indicates that it was a near twin to hangars found in Hawaii and at Pearl Harbor. The Midway hangar had a control tower affixed to the southeastern corner overlooking seaplane operations. There are no clear photos or drawings to work off so we’ve done our best to figure out what it looked like. We are also building various other buildings such as workshops and some rather unique military housing. If only we could go back in time and walk around this island during this important piece of history and properly document it. 5 in. / 38 Cal. Gun Our carrier hulls are being built by DF, but their guns are being built internally by Stefan. Here is his textured 5/38 gun ready to protect the Enterprise from attack. Notice the little R2D2-like unit to the side, or is it more like R5D4? 5 in. / 51 Cal. Gun To protect Midway, our Lead Modeler Tamas, is building the shore batteries and here is a textured 5/51 gun almost ready for action. These guns look rather simple at first glance, but they truly are complex pieces of machinery. Trying to dig up good info on these old guns is not easy. We located good drawings on this gun in a textbook from the US Naval academy from 1939. Any Midshipmen among the Combat Pilot community? F4F-4 Progress And here is our tubby hero in more detail. Chris has gone a bit bonkers with internal detail that you may not see that much of, but the F4F is looking sharp. Now time to work on her textures. A6M2 Progress The Zeke is also coming along nicely, and John has the wingtip fold ready. Not sure how helpful this small fold was on Japanese carriers when compared to more extreme American wing-folds. The landing gear is also taking shape with nice textures. Flight-Sim Expo 2024 Some of you noticed that we created a channel on our Discord and a thread in our forum about FSExpo 2024 which will be held in Las Vegas at the Tropicana Hotel. And yes, we will be attending and have a small booth at the show. We hope to have several team members in attendance. We don’t know exactly what we’ll show there yet, but if you do plan on going please stop by and say hi to the Combat Pilot team, we would love to meet you! https://flightsimexpo.com/ 2024 Wallpaper / Calendar With our first year together ending and a new one dawning, we thought it would be nice to give you some custom artwork as a late Christmas present. We hope this gives you a vision of what we are building.. Inside the archive you’ll find a Wallpaper / Calendar for both the USS Enterprise and the IJN Akagi steaming in the Pacific, each with some air cover passing overhead. Two iconic capital ships headed towards battle. We hope you like them. Use whichever image you like best. They're native 4K images (3840px x 2160px), but your computer should be able to scale them to your specific resolution. We've engineered them to work with up to 150% icon and taskbar size DOWNLOAD .ZIP *These images are copyrighted by Entropy.Aero and approved for your personal use only. Any commercial use without prior written approval from Entropy.Aero is prohibited. All of us here at Combat Pilot want to thank you for your enthusiasm and support in 2023! Have a happy and safe New Year's and we'll see you in 2024! Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead! The Combat Pilot Team Full Developer Diary is HERE! Jason 12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropy.Aero FTC_Culeeeee Posted December 28, 2023 Entropy.Aero Share Posted December 28, 2023 Merry christmas and a happy 2024 to the combat pilot community! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief_Mouser Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Great DD and great detail in the modelling 👍. Hope that we all have a stellar New Year! Cheers 🍻 4 Quote The Bell Inn, Bath. Live music venue and real ale pub (thebellinnbath.co.uk) I am in the homepage picture... or I would be if they hadn't cropped off the bottom part of it. 🍻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Internal details look pretty insane on the F-4F, makes you wonder what sort of damage model is cooking 😳 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muse Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Insane how much progress 2023 has brought. Here is to a fruitful and eventful 2024! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT Crunch Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Looking good Big J, wishing you and the team a successful and prosperous New Year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enceladus Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Superb guys! Cheers to a great development year in 2024 and may Combat Pilot become more popular from the 2024 Flight sim Expo! 4 Quote Author of Liars in the Cockpit? The near crash of TWA flight 841 and Shrouded in Clouds: the crash of TAROM flight 371 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingShark Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 So much attention to detail, stunning. Have a nice day. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Great stuff! Very many thanks and the best of luck for 2024. Happy landings, Talisman 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skelthos Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Looking good, great to see the attention to detail and the continued progress. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartsblade Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Awesome work team!!! @Jason_Williams Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Everything is looking great! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 4 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor | Asus TUFF nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 OC | Asus ROG Crosshair VII Dark Hero | 64GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3600 RAM | Windows 10 Pro x64 | Virpil MT-50 CM2 Throttle | Virpil Alpha on WarBRD base | Virpil Ace 1 Rudder Pedals | Saitek Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant (x2) |Acer x34 P 3440 x 1440 | Valve Index VR | DCS on NVME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission_bug Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 The detailing is truly breathtaking, congratulations to all the modellers they are doing stirling work on the sims assets. Very much looking forward to seeing what 2024 has in store and seeing all this coming together. Take care and be safe, hope you guys all have a very happy New Year. Wishing you all the very best, Pete. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blauwal Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Very beautiful! All have a good trip to the new year! 😀 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Bloody marvellous!... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFM Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 I want to use words that would probably get me banned, so I'll just say awesome! The Big E pics are unbelievable. 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheelsup_cavu Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Amazing work. Wheels 6 Quote Download Missions, Skins, & Essential files for IL-2 1946 and several other game series from Mission4Today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPAZ-505 Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Awesome update to close out the year!!! The progress made is incredible, the modeling and texturing is beautiful!!! Thank you for the update!!! A Very Safe & Happy New Year to the entire team!!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissTheSky Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Looks great! I can’t wait till we start hearing about the software side of things when it’s ready to be shared. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmi Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 The wallpapers! WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Thanks a lot. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jade_Monkey Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Merry Xmas to the team! Project coming along very nicely, keep up the good work and communication 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustangMike Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 2024 is looking like an exciting year! 3 Quote Working signatures? What a novel concept! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrajo73 Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Thank you for the update! I like the pictures and details and can t wait to see the finish product. I wish the team all the best for the new year 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
III.JG52 Al-Azraq Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Thanks for this update, everything is looking great and I can’t wait to see more. I am excited to witness a new flight simulator shaping up. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Thanks Jason for this end-of-year update, I wish you, the combat pilot team and all the friends of the forum a peaceful new year in which there is peace and happiness for everyone star_border 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habu Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Thx for that news and Merry Xmas to the team. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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