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Title: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Motherland on December 21, 2009, 04:25:45 PM
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam1s.gif) (http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam1.jpg)
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam2s.gif) (http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam2.jpg)
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam3s.gif) (http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam3.jpg)
(http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam4s.gif) (http://www.hitechcreations.com/news/images/camel/cam4.jpg)
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Skuzzy on December 21, 2009, 04:27:48 PM
I really wish you would stop posting the large images in the forums.  Post the small images, if you must.  Let players get the large ones if they chose to do so.

Thank you.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Motherland on December 21, 2009, 04:28:24 PM
Whoops sorry...
I've always found clicking on thumbnails more annoying than just having large images and figured other people thought the same way. I'll keep that in mind the next time I post...
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: minke on December 21, 2009, 04:30:16 PM
Another 2 weeks? At least its my fave WW1 ride!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Skuzzy on December 21, 2009, 04:32:08 PM
The reason we post thumbnails is too allow the low speed connection users a choice to see what they want to see.  Not everyone has a high speed connection.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Shuffler on December 21, 2009, 04:34:03 PM
Not everyone has a high speed connection.

Yes they do... it's just that some highspeed is dialup.  :D








Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Motherland on December 21, 2009, 04:36:24 PM
The reason we post thumbnails is too allow the low speed connection users a choice to see what they want to see.  Not everyone has a high speed connection.
I see...

I'm loving the detail on the radial and the rigging :aok
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Shuffler on December 21, 2009, 04:37:56 PM
I see...

I'm loving the detail on the radial and the rigging :aok

Are you saying flat piano wire is sexy?
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Motherland on December 21, 2009, 04:44:34 PM
No Comment :noid
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Flipperk on December 21, 2009, 05:12:43 PM
The reason we post thumbnails is too allow the low speed connection users a choice to see what they want to see.  Not everyone has a high speed connection.


It might give them the incentive to upgrade  :aok
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: bustr on December 21, 2009, 06:31:04 PM
Hey that Camel looks familure. I was looking at that skin this weekend reading about WWI aircraft specifications. Can anyone tell me who's Camel from WWI the skin is modeled after?
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Thepiratecaptainmorgan on December 21, 2009, 07:09:27 PM
How About the DR7? The SE5A? ok, and will zepplins be in as Bombers? or Bulky ones,,, I know I know Questions questions....



Captain Morgan
WAR PONY
29th BG 13 FS "Blazing Saddles"
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Motherland on December 21, 2009, 07:10:49 PM
How About the DR7? The SE5A? ok, and will zepplins be in as Bombers? or Bulky ones,,, I know I know Questions questions....



Captain Morgan
WAR PONY
29th BG 13 FS "Blazing Saddles"
From the original announcement

"We are pleased to announce an upcoming expansion to the Aces High plane set that will introduce World War I (WWI) air combat to the skies of Aces High. The initial four plane set will consist of the Fokker Dr.I, Sopwith Camel, Bristol F.2B, and Fokker D.VII.

These new planes will be available in a separate WWI dogfight arena and will also be available for special events. They will be the first planes to use a new damage system with greatly expanded capability."
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Kweassa on December 21, 2009, 07:42:21 PM
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It might give them the incentive to upgrade

They should come live here in Korea - we're a wierd wired world.

We can provide them with a connection that downloads gigabytes-sized porn within 10mins.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Stoney on December 21, 2009, 07:52:20 PM
We can provide them with a connection that downloads gigabytes-sized porn within 10mins.

Truly an underrated capability...   :aok
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Strip on December 21, 2009, 08:31:03 PM
Wheres the prop? Not even a hint of it?
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Krusty on December 21, 2009, 08:40:39 PM
Shouldn't the engine be rotating around at very high speeds? Didn't they bolt the crankshaft to the frame and the engine spun around, moving the prop with it?
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Motherland on December 21, 2009, 08:41:55 PM
Shouldn't the engine be rotating around at very high speeds? Didn't they bolt the crankshaft to the frame and the engine spun around, moving the prop with it?
From what I recall on the superfokker, the engine does rotate, it's just not replaced with a semitransparent bitmap like the propeller.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Krusty on December 21, 2009, 08:45:51 PM
Ah... very cool. Too bad AH doesn't incorporate motion blur with some in-between step (like having part of the bitmap laid out to show a blurred rotating engine, then replace the "stopped" bitmap with "blurred" when running....)
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Kweassa on December 21, 2009, 09:24:49 PM
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Truly an underrated capability...  

I'll say.

You can start a download for normal sized porn files, go to the toilet to grab some toilet paper, and when you come back the download's finished and ready...


... or, would this be a inadequate subject to discuss in HTC forums?


(ps) I think it'd be ok.. since obviously AH forums tend to show slight preference to bestiality with sheep... right?  :x

(ps2) great.. I'm talking all dirty now.. my blood sugar levels must be low again..
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Enker on December 21, 2009, 09:28:25 PM
They should come live here in Korea - we're a wierd wired world.

We can provide them with a connection that downloads gigabytes-sized porn within 10mins.

I guess you guys actually get what you pay for. $40 for 120kb/s. Wonderful isn't it.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: bravoa8 on December 22, 2009, 12:24:39 AM
You mean that's all you've done?! :lol I can see it's not coming out this year. :salute Skuzzy and the rest...
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Masherbrum on December 22, 2009, 01:29:33 AM
Great tune and great shots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKHq5b3oLI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKHq5b3oLI)

 :rock
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Kazaa on December 22, 2009, 06:29:44 AM
Whoops sorry...
I've always found clicking on thumbnails more annoying than just having large images and figured other people thought the same way. I'll keep that in mind the next time I post...

I agree with you.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Anaxogoras on December 22, 2009, 09:06:28 AM
I guess you guys actually get what you pay for. $40 for 120kb/s. Wonderful isn't it.

Korea and Japan are lightyears ahead of us in telecommunications infrastructure.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Simba on December 22, 2009, 02:48:34 PM
I'll have to look up the 'double dumb-bell' squadron marking when I get back to my library in Blighty; Les Rogers' RFC Squadron Markings' will have at least one pic plus the gen. Meanwhile I'll just sit here in Spain, sipping a rather splendid single malt and congratulating myself on having the foresight to escape the snow in Britain well in time for Christmas.

Sopwith's Humpy One has a lousy outlook from the cockpit, the pilot being seated below the upper mainplane. I'll take the SE5a every time when H-T and the gang get round to including it in the planeset.

 :cool:
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Anaxogoras on December 22, 2009, 03:53:52 PM
SE5 does have far better visibility than the F1, though I'd still prefer 2xVickers to the 1 Vickers and a Lewis gun that required the pilot to stand up and reload it. :uhoh
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Simba on December 22, 2009, 06:12:03 PM
Early over-wing Lewis mountings as on the Martinsyde S.1 were fixed - No.6 Squadron RFC's Louis Strange famously nearly came to grief standing up in the cockpit to change an ammo drum - but the SE5 and SE5a employed the Foster mounting, which enabled the pilot to unlatch the gun via a Bowden cable and then slide it back and down along a curved track to reload. The airflow assisted the backward movement, made against the tension of an aerolastic ('bungee') cord which assisted the pilot in pushing the gun back up into its forward-firing position when he'd finished reloading. The procedure required some physical effort, particularly at altitude, but the pilot needed only to slightly raise himself off his seat to accomplish it.

The Lewis gun was retained in the SE5a design because it was lightweight and less prone to jam when fired whilst manoeuvring. The Foster mounting also enabled the pilot to fire obliquely upwards and forwards at a target flying above him - an early form of 'Schrage Musik' much favoured by Albert Ball VC and others.

 :cool:
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: gatt on December 23, 2009, 03:42:04 AM
Ugly cockpit and that stationary engine ... argh ... :huh

The Camel flight model will really tell us how good is the game engine. Rotaries engined scouts, mostly the Camel, but also the Nieuports and some Fokkers, are probably the most difficult to model.

Torque and gyro effects, the use of blip-switch, togheter with prop wash effects on different type of fuselages can be a nightmare for a programmer.

We are lucky we have plenty of test reports about the Camel, so we'll be able to judge ..... anyway, good work to the programmers and good luck!  
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Shuffler on December 23, 2009, 12:09:12 PM
no brakes
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: bravoa8 on December 23, 2009, 12:32:58 PM
no brakes

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Larry on December 23, 2009, 01:29:36 PM

It might give them the incentive to upgrade  :aok

Yes because satellite is so much better then dial up. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: antivortex on December 24, 2009, 12:03:05 AM
So we should expect all the late WWI rides first and the early ones to be talked about but not added till years down the road if ever?
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Flayed on December 24, 2009, 02:26:46 AM

It might give them the incentive to upgrade  :aok

  You sir seem to be assuming that everyone has the option of upgrading and we all know what assuming means.

 Thndregg and I were stuck on dialup with no other option for 10 or more years and only had the option to upgrade within the last year or 2.

 I think for the most part everyone would upgrade if they could (we did as soon as it was available) but for some dsl and cable is still out of reach.  I would suggest you come down off of that high horse of yours and get a bit of info on what is and is not possible for the populace before acting like everyone can just up and get a high speed connection if they really wanted to.

  Sorry don't mean to roast anyone really, I'm just sick of posts where people assume others can just up and get better than they have if they really wanted to.
Title: Re: Sopwith Camel
Post by: Simba on December 24, 2009, 03:35:05 AM
From Sopwith Camel to connections waffle = yet another hijacked thread. C'mon guys, stay with the beat.

 :cool: