When we first started this stuff, a detractor said that missions were easy to create and that you could make one in a few minutes. In reality, a recreation of a real event takes a very long time to do. There are missions in Yankee Air Pirate that took a month and others that took 6 months.

We are working on Phase Two which will start in Darwin, Australia but will spend most of its time in the Coral Sea, north of Midway and in the Solomons.

I thought a couple of shots of the building of Midway might be interesting.

First, Edward makes the basic scenery from aerial photos from the time, not Google Earth.



You may notice in-game that the longest runway is not lined up the same as the photo. Making runways work and objects appear where you want them is a mathematical equation that is a lot easier if the runways are N-S or E-W.



Then we place the objects from contemporary drawings. The colors? They come from walking around Pacific atolls while my cargo plane was being unloaded and refueled. Coral sand, mangroves and coconut palms are pretty much the same everywhere.



Then Sand Island is laid out according to drawings from the time of the battle.



And, finally, the island is populated correctly.



It takes just a little more than "a few minutes" do to it right. Considering that most of the Battle of Midway will be out at sea, it is tempting to just put something together but we will stage the attack on the island and several missions from it, too.

Looks very nice zerocinco.
Populating the maps in IL-2 with the stock objects on it is time consuming enough. I can't imagine the difficulty of starting from scratch with a blank template.


Wheels

If you want to give the player the view of a Japanese dive bomber pilot had, you have to put things where they were.






Building the Other WWII on the Other flight sim might seem to be a wrong call but it allows us to do this. It could use higher resolution on the terrain tiles to match the high res buildings in these screen shots. I never notice this sort of thing in motion or when I am supposed to be hitting a target. But that's just me. I suspect a lot of people judge their gamplay on Pause.

Now back to Edward who will pull trees out of the runways with tweezers and it's ready to tear up.

Yes plz get the Seabees to chop the trees down. I have palm leaves in my gear.

This is what I luv about this sim. The incredible, almost fanatical, drive for accuracy. Brilliant!! Hearty congratulations.

Taking some CAT tests and positioning around Midway off the Fighting Lady.

Awesome. Are there going to be any Cat missions? What about Lady Lex?

There are several Catalina missions planned. The Lexington will be at the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Saratoga and the Wasp will be at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.

New toy.





Need to make a bomb. Done in a couple of days.

Fantastic! The "Slow But Deadly" lives!

Need a bomb? That is "da bomb!"

:-)