We’ve got a brand new Combat Pilot developer diary hot off the presses from Executive Producer Jason Williams. This time around we learn a little more about core technology updates and their efforts towards getting an updated preview ready for FSExpo. There are also some new images of various work in progress projects including some textures for the F4F-4 Wildcat and model updates for the A6M2-N and D3A among other items. Have a look!
Core technology progress
We’ve learned in recent updates that the Combat Pilot team are busy introducing some important core technologies into the sim including their custom flight model that they call EntropyFM. Jason reports that they haven’t been able to provide a pre-alpha preview update until they are able to get their own technology up to at least the level that the current implementation has.
The team are busy pushing towards some of these updates as they move forward towards FSExpo 2025.
Here’s a little more about their plan and the challenges that they’ve faced:
Our plan is to update the Pre-Alpha around that time so you can see our progress yourself and give us feedback. We are looking forward to that day as it’s a major milestone for us. Progress is always painful, hard, and expensive and we’ve had some unforeseen challenges like our Lead Modeler passing away and our Lead Programmer taking a nasty spill requiring surgery, but we are making progress each week I assure you. Your Patreon subscriptions, calendar purchases and overall enthusiasm for Combat Pilot has helped get us to this point and we appreciate it beyond words!
Jason Williams
In progress content
In addition to the core technology which we can’t necessarily see in a developer update but which remain intensely valuable to the product on the whole, the team are showing us some work in progress content from a variety of different areas.
One such update is the beginning of the texture work on the F4F-4 cockpit.
There are also some work in progress images of the A6M2-N codename “RUFE” floatplane.
Another aircraft that is starting to make progress is the D3A1 Type 99 Model 11 dive bomber. You may know it by the codename “VAL” as this was a very important strike aircraft for the Japanese Navy at Midway and beyond.
The team are also showing us a 37mm M1A1 AA-gun and the beginnings of the work on the IJN Hiryū. The Hiryū is clearly in the early stages but there are already plenty of details on hand. The carrier was lost during the battle and was scuttled after sustaining heavy damage….spoiler.
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