deltahawk2008 Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 Any one have an idea of the man hours involved to create/develop a 3d aircraft from scratch to DCS standard. Assume reasonably experienced 3d modeler (personally am a trained engineering draftsman). I note that there seems to be a trail of unfinished projects around the place. Do people realize the amount of work needed? Perhaps one of the DCS developers can chime in? Information gathering at this stage....
joey45 Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 It's not meassuered in hours but in weeks. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
mongol-29 Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 It's not meassuered in weeks but in months. Mongol-29 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
joey45 Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 It's not messured in months but in years.... EDIT: sorry couldn't help it..;) The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
beczl Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 Any one have an idea of the man hours involved to create/develop a 3d aircraft from scratch to DCS standard. Assume reasonably experienced 3d modeler (personally am a trained engineering draftsman). I note that there seems to be a trail of unfinished projects around the place. Do people realize the amount of work needed? Perhaps one of the DCS developers can chime in? Information gathering at this stage.... Hi here it's my working hour estimation about the MiG-21 FC2 version. If you want to develop a DCS products you need to add +30% in my point of view. The exact working hours from tools logs: 3D Max: 3107 Photoshop: 1030 Other tool: 917 Estimated time that I spend: Data collections: 250 Manual: 90 Test: 410 Other: 320 Overal: ~6124hr It's only my time that I spend for this mod. I have many meeting, Skype conversation and telco with my advisors who help my daily work. Their times not count in this overall hr's. Refer: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1270157&postcount=878
159th_Falcon Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 So that comes down to about 153 weeks (~3 years) assuming your working 8 hrs a day for 5 days a week. ~S~ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] The keeper of all mathematical knowledge and the oracle of flight modeling.:)
SmokeyTheLung Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 Overal: ~6124hr Time for me to make a donation! :greedy: System specifications: Computer, joystick, DCS world, Beer
deltahawk2008 Posted May 28, 2012 Author Posted May 28, 2012 Thanks all, particularly Beczl. Hope its a profitable venture for you, truly a labor of love, for sure! I will be buying it once its done.
beczl Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 (edited) Overal: ~6124hr = about 2.5 years ? :thumbup: Well the final around ~2.0yr. Sometimes for especially weekends I spent more than 40hr for work. So that comes down to about 153 weeks (~3 years) assuming your working 8 hrs a day for 5 days a week.~S~ Approximately I work 80hr/week. (40hr weekend + 5x8hr/weekday) Edited May 29, 2012 by beczl
Ells228 Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 Our Typhoon for FC1 took around 12 months to build and skin for the RAF project we did, but we had 3 key people working on her and a team of people gathering data. We then made some changes for the FC2 public release. The 3d cockpit took around 4 months to get right and we're still working on it. Taking her to DCS level is going to take another several months and then there's DCS integration with the MFCD's as she uses the MFCD's for pretty much everything including engine dials. Bearing in mind that she has been made in spare time, but almost all spare time. I'd go with 3 years being a good estimate for part time work.
john_X Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 " I'd go with 3 years being a good estimate for part time work." I agree!
Ich666 Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 Approximately I work 80hr/week. (40hr weekend + 5x8hr/weekday) Youre pretty hardcore. Of course we want to give that thing a shot as soon as possible, but not at the cost of someone dying in front of their scren. Take a break when you need one ;)
john_X Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 at my ex-job i used to work 9 hours/day continuously in front of the screen. as i started to have severe headaches after a while, they told me is something wrong with me. but i just believe that today, people are completely insane when asking someone to spend such a long time using a computer. so i quitted, because the salary was very small anyway(about 300 usd/month). the truth is, every day i was spending 1-2 hours in adittion, home, to work at different aircraft models, that's compared to beczl's 8 h/day. so this is why a mod comes so slowly, specially when the team is composed by 1 member...
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