[REL] Air Force - SH5 planes pack

[kapuhy]

Originally Posted by Niume

One question, why the hell SH5 stock used 3 engines and triple tail on CATALINA????????????

Licensing rights. Apparently, in order to include a model of Catalina in your game you need to pay the company which produced Catalinas and still holds the copyright. However, in order to include a generic "American Flying Boat" you don't have to pay a dime to anyone.

I looked at textures and models up close while working on them and I'm convinced planes in SH5 were originally modeled correctly, but then (perhaps due to not being able to work a good enough deal on licensing fees) Ubisoft management told graphics designers to strap on some random parts like third engine and triple tail to mask models identity.

[vickers03]

outstanding work!

[skin-nl]

Great mod again kapuhy....outstanding work