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Offline Blade

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I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« on: October 21, 2026, 05:56:30 AM »

https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,406946.msg5389578.html#msg5389578I had requested this here as well, but I couldn't wait any longer, so I went ahead and converted it myself.
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2026, 09:31:33 AM »
Interestin'. How well did it work?
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2026, 12:44:51 PM »
Was looking at how to do that myself but don't want to violate any rules.
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2026, 03:08:45 PM »
Now that is interesting, would love to see more!
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2026, 03:10:43 PM »
Oh! This would be so valuable if it works! It would also be cool to cross-reference other sims like DCS and see any performance differences between same plane models.
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2026, 04:07:27 PM »
Well,
since there's a risk of breaking the rules, I'll stop here.
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2026, 04:33:22 PM »
I like that waffle is a modern military aircraft sent back in time to WW2
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2026, 04:34:52 PM »
Break what rule?
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Offline AKIron

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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2026, 04:35:52 PM »
Quote from: Meatwad on October 21, 2026, 04:34:52 PM
Break what rule?

Using a film file for other than what's intended.
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Offline Dadtallica

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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2026, 05:56:39 PM »
Quote from: AKIron on October 21, 2026, 04:35:52 PM
Using a film file for other than what's intended.

Who determines the intent of a film?

I’m guessing that’s a rule about griefing… I’m sure you’re fine with whatever you’re doing or I could be wrong.

I also don’t know what exactly I’m looking at anyway lol
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Offline AKIron

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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2026, 08:39:06 PM »
Quote from: Dadtallica on October 21, 2026, 05:56:39 PM
Who determines the intent of a film?

I’m guessing that’s a rule about griefing… I’m sure you’re fine with whatever you’re doing or I could be wrong.

I also don’t know what exactly I’m looking at anyway lol

I don't know that's it's a rule per se but I don't know how Hitech views it. I'm certain he would not want AH3 executable reverse engineered. The film file is obviously different.
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2026, 10:45:43 PM »
Quote from: Dadtallica on October 21, 2026, 05:56:39 PM
Who determines the intent of a film?

I assume you are looking at a AHF converted to ACMI which a program Tacview can read and display.  A powerful tool used in DCS and IL2 flight analysis.

I think the relevant issue are the rules around attempts at reverse-engineering. 
It's a gray area and I have no doubt Blade's intent is pure.
He is not reverse-engineering the binary or network payloads, but or given that the film format contains telemetry for detecting hacking, I can see HT might be sensitive about people trying to reverse-engineer the format.

I think it would be awesome for the AHF Viewer to be able to export acmi.  I'd just suggest Blade contact HT and see if he minds and maybe he can help HT work it out under his supervision and limit the information about the AHF format that is shared.

Or he might not mind at all, but it's close enough to reverse-engineering gray area that I would get his blessing.

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Offline Dadtallica

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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2026, 10:59:19 PM »
Pretty sure a lot of that went over my head just now lol.

It’s funny, I  just asked a question in the film section about control surfaces. Maybe we’re converging on something.

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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2026, 11:57:58 PM »
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Re: I tried converting the *Aces High III* film.
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2026, 06:13:21 AM »
Thanks for the advice. I'll contact HiTech directly to ask whether I can continue developing this tool for my personal use, without distributing it. I'll wait for their guidance before proceeding further.
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