The SURVEY - 2012 - RESULT

Where is this market going ? Is this a profitable job to design sceneries ? Where are the customers ? That was the whole idea of this Survey 2012.

THE SURVEY 2012

This is a  summary of the survey. We told editors that some questions would remain confidential.

We asked to 25 editors (mainly sceneries designers) their answers about their targets, their customer base etc. 7 questions.

As we already told you, 15 editors from the smallest to the heaviest have answered :
Aerosoft, Orbx, Latin VFR, Tropical Sim, FSADDON+, Fly Tampa, France VFR, P.I.S., OrientalSim, OryxSim, Boris Forero, FSDG, FS Dreamteam, Drzewiecki Design and Simaddons.

First fact. they are still sticking on FS9/FSX and P3D. They have told us that this year, these 3 platforms will remain their top priority at 95 %, then X-Plane at 3,5 % and FLIGHT at 1 %.

Remember that's an average.

 We asked them "How do you see this year " (economicaly of course).

Excellent : 46,5 %

Very good : 33 %

Uncertain or bad : 20 %

We also asked them what could be the kind of jobs they are seeking, now or soon.

3Dmax/Gmax programer/developer : 8 answered yes (on 15)

Textures artists and painters :             8 yes on 15

3D artists :                                           7 yes on 15

Computer developers                          3 on 15

Some editors added other jobs not listed : project management, hired photographers (for airports).

And we asked them what could be the winning technologies (to improve, speed up design..)

which is a tricky question since all these editors are working in various kind of sceneries.

(and because D'Andre and I are still not profesionnal developers ;)

But here are the answers :

New textures modeling           5 on 15

Animated objects/people etc   4 on 15

3D new autogen                       3

New tools for 3D                     2

New tools for layers                0

Cherry on the cake ?

What we call "small teams", team usually composed of 2 to 5 designers, some on full some on part time. Well these teams have reported a very interesting average growth of 75 % per year.

Take it the way you like, growth of volumes or turnover, that's very promising for this business !

Dom and D'andre

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