Friday, April 22, 2005

Work in progress

Okidoki! What´s up right now? If you by chance have visited the Swedish Design Team (SDT) webpage, you might have a hunch of what we do. Being a group of grown-ups, time is limited due to the stupid thing called work - we all have to do some... Actual flying in the sim is rare these days, mostly you end up taking a short spin to check out if the latest development is working. But I´m not complaining, I wouldn´t do this if I didn´t think it was fun!
We have a bunch of projects going on. Years ago I learned using Gmax by recreating the local airfield ESMK (Everöd). An update of this scenery is long overdue, but work has begun. There are also updates coming to most of the published SDT projects, some are small, some large. The bridge between the mainland and the baltic island Öland is in the making, or rather, it is done but Scandinavian Roads & Waters threw a spanner in the works which requires additional work. It´ll be available sometime. :-)
ESSX is progressing nicely, but some more pics are needed. Can´t leave out half of the buildings!
SweClass, the coolest project ever, is growing rapidly. It is a landclass (not explained here!) covering all of Sweden. Ok, it´s a thing that will display cities, forests and such at the right place in FS 2004. It greatly enhances the experience of flying over Sweden.
What we all lack is feedback. The stuff I have released in my own name, as well as the things SDT have published, have generated almost no feedback whatsoever. Ok, it´s nice to hear great work from time to time, but what always is needed is someone who can tell what is wrong, not someone who´ll tell you that something is wrong. Come on you guys - write back! How else can we get better? I bet the payware-guys get a lot more feedback...

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