And then there were two.  Queue jokes about bus scheduling...
 

https://fselite.net/news/dc-designs-announces-concorde/

What is DC design ??? 😕

LOL😁😁 https://fselite.net/news/dc-designs-announces-concorde/

Its a good day for you Concorde-heads!!!

They are creators of the recently released Super Hornet and F-15 published by Just Flight.

Perhaps these two Concorde development announcements will light a fire under FSLabs to make a statement about theirs. Hopefully they don't throw in the towel and abandon it like Airbus did with the real Concorde.

Ted

Hmm, not sure but good on them for taking it on.

Are we going to have a stream of complaints saying that this is a waste of resources?
DC Designs should concentrate on aircraft not being worked on by other developers?

@Ray Proudfoot
Like the proverbial wait for one bus (/supersonic airliner) and two come along at once!
 

Didn't FS Labs also toy with the idea of bringing their Concorde to 64bit simulators?

After the Concorde announcement and now the Super Caravelle we just need the TU-144 next week...

46 minutes ago, F737NG said:

Are we going to have a stream of complaints saying that this is a waste of resources?
DC Designs should concentrate on aircraft not being worked on by other developers?

@Ray Proudfoot
Like the proverbial wait for one bus (/supersonic airliner) and two come along at once!
 

I’m sure they all work independently of each other. There’s a gap in the market for the world’s most beautiful aircraft and they’re queuing up to be the first to get her out.

Just like buses. You wait ages for one... 😄

3 hours ago, Ted Striker said:

Perhaps these two Concorde development announcements will light a fire under FSLabs to make a statement about theirs.

I suspect any decision FSL makes concerning the amount of time and cash they'd have to commit to in order to build a realistic Concorde to the kind of standards their product catalogue errs toward, is unlikely to be affected by availability of any number of 'lite' versions of it, in the same way that if Abacus made a 737 MAX, it would be unlikely to affect any decision PMDG made about having a stab at one.

Edited May 19, 20206 yr by Chock

At least one comment on that article said the visual model looked terrible - like freeware, to which a certain Mr. Proudfoot mentioned that the more important thing is how it flies. 😎  If the eye candy takes a hit in favour of systems modelling then that's the right way to go for such a complex bird. To be fair it doesn't look half bad to me - perhaps get rid of Captain BA and put a couple more polygons into the wheel design.. 😜

Shouldn't this topic be moved to Hangar Chat? In particular due this quote from the Facebook announcement: "...and will be my next release for FSX, FSX:Steam, all versions of Prepar3D and the forthcoming FS2020".

Edited May 20, 20206 yr by SierraDelta

In checking out the screenshots for the DC Designs Concorde, I must admit I thought the model seemed a bit lacklustre. Now of course they might be early screenshots before things are complete (which apparently is the case), and I do also acknowledge that one of the goals of DC Designs is for things to have good performance, which translates to minimising the polygon count and being efficient with the texturing amongst other things, but it's probably not a good idea to go too far with that brevity on an aeroplane such as Concorde, which is in many people's eyes, one of the most beautiful things ever to have lifted off a runway.

Concorde is by necessity, a very clean airframe but that does tend to make models of Concorde look a bit featureless, so I would think it would be especially vital in that case, to cram every bit of detail you could into any model of the thing anywhere that is possible (for example landing gear detail, wheel wells etc) and to really go for it in terms of texture realism. DC Designs is certainly capable of making nice stuff visually and performance wise, you only have to look at their F/A-18 Superhornet (see my video review of it if you need proof of this) to observe that the developer is well aware of how to balance polygon count, curve vector points, and texture details, against the desire to get decent performance out of a model in a flight sim.

If someone is looking for super-realism, they'll perhaps have to temper their expectation levels with both the AH and and the DCD Concorde products, but that doesn't mean these won't be worthy of a place in most people's virtual hangars, particularly in considering that super-realism is not their intended goal. If they actually were shooting for something more realistic and they fell short of their intended target, that would be the time to be justifiably critical or disappointed.

Edited May 20, 20206 yr by Chock

5 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

Shouldn't this topic be moved to Hangar Chat? In particular due this quote from the Facebook announcement: "...and will be my next release for FSX, FSX:Steam, all versions of Prepar3D and the forthcoming FS2020".

Indeed it should. I’ll merge it with the existing DC Design Concorde topic. That’s assuming I can work out how! 😁