Thanks Daidalos Team for an Official post!!

Wow, speedy response on the HUD info request!

...and no, the game engine does not support self-shadowing. It's just too old. The environment was written before self-showing was even a thing a games, so there you go...

Can we have the same option "bottom of screen" for subtitles ? (à la EAW)

A togle key for HUD would be fantastic too, i often don't need the text (read gauges, lever position) but sometimes i need it temporarily when controls don't move in cockpit.

Can we mod the engine?

You mean re-write the core of the game ? Well, then you can make whole new game, sell it and become damn rich...

Well, but then there's this fella, Ankor, who activated selfshadowing and bumpmapping in CFS3/WOFF via D3D wrapper library...And the CFS3 engine is even more ancient than Il-2's.....

Maybe Daidalos Team and us can start Il2 1946 on a new engine, but wich one? Home made engine, Unreal Engine, Cry Engine, etc???

lol

But maybe they can tweak the current engine, by changing some stuff from scratch (sorry I'm not a game developper, so I don't really understand how it work)?

I found that : http://a2asimulations.com/forum/view...hp?f=2&t=39599

Look cool

And that : http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...at#Post3881675
(We could have DirectX 11 in Il2 1946 by following the same steps lol)

It's fairly "easy" to add things like modified AI parameters or new bomb release settings. Changing the engine is a major undertaking. Consider that Activision has been using the same ID Tech engine technology for Call of Duty games dating back to at least CoD 4: Modern Warfare if not earlier. They only changed the core engine as of this year's November release. That's a half dozen or more years of large team that is highly funded, deciding that a new engine switch was far too big of a task.

Now take that down to a volunteer group of enthusiasts like Team Daidalos. It's just not going to happen.

For a new engine... check out IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad and their Digital Nature engine which they built over several years for Rise of Flight.

Unless they ask Ankor nicely :grin: