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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: oboe on March 06, 2015, 12:43:13 PM
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In the thread about the 10 oldest squads in Aces High, I thought it would be cool to make a "cover flow" type page that showed all the squads' logos and has links to their webpages. I poked around and found some free Flash applications that allowed me to modify them to do that - the one I used is called flShow and its a Flash-based carousel. I either grabbed a squad's artwork off its webpage or made up my own if I couldn't find any for the squad, same as I did on the timeline I made earlier. I have a lot more than 10 squads, my criteria having evolved into active squads more than 10 years old, with at least a handful of members and hopefully a web presence in the form of a squad website.
I mocked this up as if its part of HTCs website, just to see what it would look like. Mostly I just wanted to see if I could do it. You can control the vertical orientation, direction and speed of the rotation of the carousel with your mouse. Moving the mouse to either edge of the screen increases the rotational speed; centering it stops the rotation. Moving the mouse up and down changes your viewing angle.
EDIT: You can click on the squad's logo and if the squad has a webpage, it will link to it in a new window. If this isn't working, you may need to clear your browser's cache and close and restart the browser...
What do you guys think? Too much time on my hands? Squad logos really interest me. My favorites are the winged pig of Pigs on the Wing, "Animal" from the Army of Muppets, and of course Walt Disney's original Flying Tiger logo. But there is a lot of talent and imagination out there - Duxford Wing's "Beckoning Death" skeleton, the "Menacing Ferrets, and LLv34's black crow for example. I had some fun working with these images. I hope squads stay alive and well for a long time in AH.
http://tjlaven.brinkster.net/Flash/ (http://tjlaven.brinkster.net/Flash/)
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Thats really cool Oboe.....but ummmm wheres the Headhunters :D
Seriously, way to go, thats pretty cool. :aok
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LOL, do we have a webpage?
I had to limit the number of squads, so I chose 10 years as a cut off point. Otherwise the ring I think would get too big. I still have a few squads to add like the FUBARS, Unforgiven, Birds of Prey, Blue Knights, Specialists, Avengers, Nazgul, Sick Puppies, Hellhounds. But if they don't have a website I'm not sure about what kind of graphic to use, and no webpage to link to. I was just excited to get it to a point where I could show it to see what people thought about it.
The links to webpages happen so FAST. Not sure why that is, maybe its preloading the link?
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that's pretty cool Oboe, nice going, and thanks.
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kool Oboe, wheres is the Hell Hounds?
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"This one has talent boys". Thanks Oboe :aok
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Thanks! Hellhounds are in there now, hgtonyvi. I found a real Hellhound squad patch from a Marine squadron.
I've added a few new squads; if you don't see the them, try deleting your cache and closing and restarting your browser.
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Very cool Sir! :aok
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Thank you, Waystin2. Your pig image just cracks me up. He just looks so happy and dumb flying around that carousel!
I've been at it since early this morning, trying to finish up to get it in a condition to show you guys, and I think my eyes are mow playing tricks on me. I swear that black crow from LLv34 - his head turns and keeps looking at me as he rotates out of view. Gahh!
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WoW!!
That would be a cool one in the arsenal of PR for AH.
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... and LLv34's black crow for example. ...
It's an eagle! :furious :D
(http://personal.inet.fi/peli/LLv34/LLv34/merkit/34_logo.gif)
The official emblem of the historical Lentolaivue 34, The Eagle Fledgling, or "Mace Crow" as it was affectionately called, was designed by one of the squadron pilots Lasse Lehtinen. There were several versions of it painted on rudders. Here's a couple, first one during the war, the second after the war (swastikas were changed to roundels post-WW2).
(http://personal.inet.fi/peli/LLv34/LLv34/kuvat/34pera.jpg)
(http://personal.inet.fi/peli/LLv34/LLv34/kuvat/afterwar.jpg)
Nice work Oboe! :aok
Camo
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Not sure how the flash portion is set up, but if you resize the ring to half the width, and half the height you could then fit 4 "rings" in the same space and then you could add more patches.
Looks pretty cool tho. Skuzzy doesn't like flash because I guess it's easy to hide nasty payload in it. I'm surprised that my training tutorials are still up on the trainers site.
Well done! :rock
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Thanks guys!
An eagle?! Of course, that makes more sense! What I like about the "Mace Crow", is that for such a simple drawing, it seems to have a personality. It does not look lifeless. Must be the eyes...
Fugi, wouldn't ya know it abt Flash? There were other options but many involved keeping the images on Picasa, and I try to stay away from things Google because I don't want GoogleUpdater running on my machine. Another process I don't need. This one seemed to have the best features, plus you could link the images to web pages. I had not realized Flash could be used as a payloader and be a security risk.
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Very cool!
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Nice Oboe!
Need to see a Head Hunter logo! :D
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Looks Great, oboe! nicely done
cheers
TC
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Looks great to me ...Skuzzy can we implement this into AH front page...//
Lawndart
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Very nice, Oboe, wish I had that sort of talent.
- oldman
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excellent work oboe! :aok :cheers: :salute
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Nice work man! :aok
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That is awesome, and Lawndart is right, this should be on the AH front page!
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THATS SICK! HOW DO I GET MY SQAUD ON THERE!?
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THATS SICK! HOW DO I GET MY SQAUD ON THERE!?
I would start by having a good squad. :devil
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DA ME NOW! ILL SMACK DOWN YOU! :rock
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I would start by having a good squad. :devil
Now that's not nice Zoney, they have a perfectly... unique... squad. :uhoh
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THATS SICK! HOW DO I GET MY SQAUD ON THERE!?
I started by making a timeline of the oldest squads in AH. I made a cut off at 10 years. But there are some squads on there who are barely hanging on with one or two members, so maybe a ring like this should show the largest and most active squads, not just the oldest. Will have to give it some thought. One thing, I don't know how to identify all the squads and how many members they have...
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Awesome, My squad Art looks awesome oboe. Ty man <S>!!!!!!!!! It looks the coolest. :cool: :cool: :cool:
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Neat
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Well done Oboe. Very cool indeed. :salute
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Well done Oboe :aok
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That looks great..
Any chance 71 RAF can get on..quite an old established squad
:salute JimmyC
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Hi JimmyC. Sure, we can get your squad on - is your squad 10 yrs old or more? Do you guys have a website, or a particular squad logo you prefer? Hw many in your squad and who is he CO?
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Nicely done Oboe. Thanks for your time and efforts.
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Does the HTC web master want the additional job of keeping track of the squad list for this function? Or, for this to be fair, the repository for in game current squad art becomes the logo source?
This has merit in the message it will convey to prospective new players. Most people are not lone wolves and feel more comfortable about their activities in the company of the like minded.
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HTC needs to put back the option where you can check all current squad registered with them. It use to be on the main website. AH wiki isnt so go looking at the squad listings.
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HTC needs to put back the option where you can check all current squad registered with them. It use to be on the main website. AH wiki isnt so go looking at the squad listings.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/scores/allsquads.php
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http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/scores/allsquads.php
where'd you find that link? It's great - shows ALOT of squads!
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Search works good! I remembered that the squad list was brought up before...
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,360025.0.html
Skuzzy fixed it, and posted it here
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,360025.msg4778201.html#msg4778201
I saved it as I do with most other stupid things nobody would save. I think it was going to be added back into the web page, but don't think it made it in. Maybe it was another oversight like when they dropped the list.
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Excelent! :cheers:
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Hi JimmyC. Sure, we can get your squad on - is your squad 10 yrs old or more? Do you guys have a website, or a particular squad logo you prefer? Hw many in your squad and who is he CO?
Hi .yep squad was started by redtop batfinkv and SteffK back in June 2004.
B2B is the current Co
We have more than 1 wing..
In the hay day we had 3 full operational wings
71 (Eagle)RAF Logo eagle holding thunderbolts ..as in my avatar
Cheers mate..good work
<S> JimmyC
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OK JimmyC - 71 Sqdn RAF is now in there - I found a image on the web for the real squadron and used that - your avatar image was too small to be workable.
Using the link Fugitive provided I've also done some checking, and found the website and logo for The Elite, so I've added them too.
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<S> thanks
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I added a few more squads to the ring - The Unforgiven, 99th Aggressor Squadron, Claim Jumpers (its 2015 now so they could be considered 10 yrs old), and the Airborne Kitchen Utensil Assault Group.
Also changed the link for the Arabian Knights to point to a more recent website I found, and changed the Flying Circus's logo.
http://tjlaven.brinkster.net/Flash/ (http://tjlaven.brinkster.net/Flash/)
Many of the logos have links to their squads websites, and browsing some of these websites I have found some interesting links about aircraft performance, squad tactics, and ACM.
I'd still like to add the Sick Puppies (need a decent logo, and get more accurate logos for the Avengers and the Flying Mongrels - I have seen their squad noseart but 64x64 does not scale up well to the size of images I'm using in the ring).
Using that query link that Fugitive posted, I've learned the Blue Knights don't seem to have an active squad in the arena - Drex was the CO and apparently he's no longer active. There are some other squad I saw on the list that I remember and some and logos (like the 444th Air Mafia) had good websites, but apparently no longer active:
>NAZGUL<
444TH AIR MAFIA
4th Fighter Group
9. Jagdgeschwader 54
Green Mountain Boys
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I added a few more squads to the ring - The Unforgiven, 99th Aggressor Squadron, Claim Jumpers (its 2015 now so they could be considered 10 yrs old), and the Airborne Kitchen Utensil Assault Group.
Also changed the link for the Arabian Knights to point to a more recent website I found, and changed the Flying Circus's logo.
http://tjlaven.brinkster.net/Flash/ (http://tjlaven.brinkster.net/Flash/)
Many of the logos have links to their squads websites, and browsing some of these websites I have found some interesting links about aircraft performance, squad tactics, and ACM.
I'd still like to add the Sick Puppies (need a decent logo, and get more accurate logos for the Avengers and the Flying Mongrels - I have seen their squad noseart but 64x64 does not scale up well to the size of images I'm using in the ring).
Using that query link that Fugitive posted, I've learned the Blue Knights don't seem to have an active squad in the arena - Drex was the CO and apparently he's no longer active. There are some other squad I saw on the list that I remember and some and logos (like the 444th Air Mafia) had good websites, but apparently no longer active:
>NAZGUL<
444TH AIR MAFIA
4th Fighter Group
9. Jagdgeschwader 54
Green Mountain Boys
The 444th Air Mafia last CO was 007Rusty. He last flew in 2012. I actually have the whole Mafia site stored on my computer as I was CO from 99-02 and their "web master" much longer after that. That was one of the longest running squads. Beginning in the early 90's on Air Warrior until that games death through early 2009 on Aces High.
The "ring" looks good.