Next Level Simulations A380

War das nicht die ganze Zeit schon so?

Mhmmm. Hört sich nicht projektförderlich an. Hoffentlich hören die Entwickler nicht auf... Ein guter A380 wäre ein Verkaufsschlager.

Das sieht ja mal interessant aus... aufgenommen auf der Strecke SYD - LAX, QFA11..

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Das sieht ja mal interessant aus... aufgenommen auf der Strecke SYD - LAX, QFA11..

Geiöööl Hoffentlich kommt das baby noch 2012 zur Welt

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No worries, the A380 project is still underway it just had a slightly long pause here but programming is back on track stay tuned.

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Project still on hold

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Das wars

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Alright, here we go. I am indeed VERY sad to announce that we have to cancel the A380 for the time beeing. Its a very hard descision for me as the A380 has always been somewhat "my baby" and I have been working on it since 2007. But things are moving in a different direction now so I had to make a choice. I was always afraid to give up, having in mind the thousands of working hours that have gone into the project so far. Giving it up would make all of that worthless. I am very sorry to disappoint you people here - but I don't have a choice.

To be honest, I wasn't able to continue the project for the last 12-15 months because I have started out with a new business (doing film, commercials, features and 3d animation), I have invested a lot of money into a new studio, camera systems, stuff. That lays great pressure upon me, needing to get the business going. After all, flight simulation would not pay my bills. Not at this point.

I haven't talked to Chris Kögler, the systems programmer for quite a while, which was due to my lack of time, moving to the new office, working long hours - that made it get lost somehow. I will need to talk to him very soon about this descision but I am sure he sees it the same way. The discussion for cancelling the project had been up for quite a while.

So what now? The project had quite a lot of innovations and cool things in it - however, it's still far from beeing completed. The flight model is not done, the 3D model is in the middle of a big revision (wings, flight deck). The systems show a 100% accurate visual representation of the real thing, however, the systems core is virtually not there, due to the lack of a finalised flight model and physics system. Overall, it's far away from a releaseable version.

So why not pass the source files to someone else to continue? Of course, for you as a flight simmer, that would be the best way to go to keep up the hope of flying it one day. However, as a developer, who has put all of his heart and time into it over the past years, it's not that simple. I know, Chris will definetly not give away his source codes, since he has so many innovative and new things in it, that he had wrote/invented that I can understand, that he will not give them away just like that. For me, as a 3D artist it's also difficult, leaving your own work to someone elses hand.

We still have to decide what to do with all the material.

Still, I want to thank ALL OF YOU for the great support over the years. It has always been - and still is - a great motivation. And I am sorry that we cannot fulfill your expectations. However, I hope you understand our points.

Thank you,
Oliver Braun
Next Level Simulations

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Schade, aber war leider irgendwie abzusehen. Hate auf jedenfall gute Ansätze das Projekt und ich hätte gerne gewusst wie gut der 380 dann am Ende wirklich geworden wäre. Aber ich finde den Schritt von ihm echt in Ordnung, jetzt weiss man wenigstens wo man dran ist und muss sich keine unnötigen Hoffnungen mehr machen und wer weiss vllt führt er das Projekt ja eines Tages doch noch fort, oder kann man es gute Hände weitergeben.

Übernehm ich dann schnell

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Alright. I have found out that I simply cannot let go of this. That means - we will carry on developing this A380! However:- We will try to finish it. But we will not make any promises. Especially on the systems side, its extremely complicated. There IS a reason why no development team has achieved to develop a usable realistic A380 simulation up to date. Because the A380 is simply extremely complex.

- We will not make any statements on implemented features. I will try our best to implement and develop as much as there is possible within the limits of FSX and our abilities, but we will only know for sure in the very end.

- We will not post any detail shots of the displays and systems until it is finished. The technology used in programming them is quite innovative and their visual appearance is 99,9% accurate in layout, design, typo and colour compared to the real thing - so we simply don't want competing developers to "steal" anything.

Time is a very limiting factor and even if there is loads of other work that has to be done, I will try my best to find time to carry on with this. But I know I would regret if I'd let go of it. There are so many years and so much passion involved in developing this bird so I guess I don't have any options

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Ich habe zwar keine Ahnung, wo er die Zeit noch hernehmen will, aber 70% der Arbeit liegen eh beim Programmierer...

Frei nach André Kostolani: In der Flugsimulation ist alles möglich-auch das Gegenteil!

Wäre natürlich toll wenn das Projekt eines Tages fertig werden würde. Schauen wir mal, was da jetzt so passiert in den kommenden Tagen und Wochen.

Ich meinte jetzt nicht das der Flieger in den nächsten Tagen oder Wochen fertig ist und released wird. Habe mich da vllt was missverständlich ausgedrückt und meinte eher was in Oliver dann zum Projekt an sich in den nächsten Tage oder Wochen noch so kommt. Denke ja mal er wird sich ja schon noch mal dazu äußern.

Wobei wenn ich mir sein Posting nochmal genau anschaue, ist damit eher nicht zu rechnen, das es viele Updates geben wird.

Da heisst es wohl einfach abwarten und Tee trinken wie Gerson schon richtig festgestellt hat.