(TEC) Is it ok to..?

[miner1436]

I wonder what kind of letter they want...:hmm: any pointers? Im not so good at writing letters.

[M. Sarsfield]

Anyway their 'excuse' is that Boeing/Grumman are forbidding them to make 3D models of some of their planes for use in IL2.

Shocker...

[Von Manteuffel]

Oleg and IL2 seem to be having this very problem, that you say 'is for free'.
Anyway their 'excuse' is that Boeing/Grumman are forbidding them to make 3D models of some of their planes for use in IL2.

Now that is unusual.:hmm: Normally companies are happy for their vehicles etc to be used in games. It brings them and their product to public prominence and adds interest. Plus it can in no way threaten their sales ( unless IL2 players happen to have a few tens of millions of dollars lying around soomewhere and are in the market for a fast jet, or two. )

It can't even be that the in-game performance will show their plane up in a bad light, since the only performance data the modellers can use will come from the plane's manufacturers - and they're not going to dis their own stuff.

It can't be security considerations - or can it? I can't imagine a computer game would be in a position to reveal classified, or sensitive material in its offerings - although one of my favourite stories concerns the Eagle, a British magazine for boys in the 1950s, which featured an accurate and very detailed cut-away illustration of a plane, ship, or piece of military hardware as a centre-page spread every week. One day, the illustrator was visited by some gentlemen from the British Security Services who demanded to know where he had got the details for one of his latest drawings from. They left red-faced when he explained that he'd written to the contracting manufacturer and they'd sent him an illustrated brochure!

I can only suppose they're either being overly-precious, or have signed an exclusivity deal for an undisclosed sum with another games manufacturer - which, again, is very unusual.

[vanjast]

We were all dissapointed by this as it would be great fun with 10 or so online people flying in a B17/B29 co-op mission.