Tom,
All the objects around the harbor will be there when we let it go. A drydock is possible but the effort would sidetrack us. Hitting the PA is not on our mission list. The player can hit it and it will react as will the surrounding objects. But I am going back to our "Standard Excuse": that this is a flying game and we only guarantee the view from the cockpit. Of course, we really work very hard on the doodads but we keep that excuse handy for just such times as these.
But to prove we it's really only an excuse, we have attached some shots of what we have been doing in just the last 48 hours. Things are missing, out of place, unpainted but they give an idea of the size of the effort and investment to do just Pearl Harbor (and Phase One includes also the Sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales, Malaysian Invasion and the defense of Kunming and Rangoon).
We need to put this all together and hope the lights don't dim when we round Barber's Point. I put in 16 hours a day and everyone else is hammering as hard as they can.
Each picture caption explains what was being tested.
When it's ready to show around, you will be the first in line, Tom.
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Eightlien's Bomb Sight. Set for each aircraft type engaged in level bombing.
Hinch's and mppd's work to remove an errant pixel that was causing shadow errors...and not destroying the UV mapping. (Yes. We know the wharf and piers are missing and the Val isn't painted.)
Some of the buildings for Hickam Field and Ford Island.
Tract homes and water tower for Pearl City...tested at an airfield where we are filming an airshow.
Arizona Destroyed Model test. Each ship has one based upon their pictures after the attack.
Sink test. (nothing tested. I just wanted to watch it sink.)
Submerged sub test.
PBY target. (look closely below the sub firing the torpedo) You will take off from the water, hunt and bomb a sub and land on the water.
Map View test. Mike wants lepers on Molokai but I had to draw the line somewhere. Deuces did give him the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore, though.
View from Pearl City area. Testing time of day and clouds to match old pics.
We are right on schedule thanks to the efforts of the Team. That schedule is determined this way: Finish before YAP runs out of money.
The Kaga arrives today and it is a key ship in our chosen missions so we are off to Home Depot for some more gray paint.
