Huge collection of Terrains from H2H days need permission to publish

[bbosen]

Greetings Terrain Editors!

I have a huge collection of terrains from the H2H days. These are both for AH1 and AH2. I was very active during the entire H2H experience, and I captured every terrain map I could ever find. I've still got them all.

I've been thinking about these. Some of them aren't very good, but a lot of them represent hundreds of hours of your labor! Dozens of them are truly splendid. I think it would be a shame to let these fade out of existence.

So I'm tempted to publish them all on my web site. I could dedicate a set of pages to these gems. I've already put the 2 terrains I created there. For example, check this:

http://techvideoreview.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/AcesHighFullPage.htm

Click into the "Terrain Maps" link to see what I'm considering.

But I don't want to do this if it offends any of the people that created those terrains [That's YOU, Terrain Editors].

Accordingly, I'm posting this message here to get a feel for what the community thinks about the idea, and to give any of you the chance to object with regard to any terrains you created.

So..... what do you think? Good idea? or Bad?

And I won't publish any terrain if the author asks me not to. I'll just let this thread percolate for a couple of weeks to judge reaction.




Regards,




-Peabody-

[USRanger]

Go for it!  I'd love to see if any of my old ones are in there.

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I could not imagine why one would object, they made them for the comunity

I think it's a great idea

[Ex-jazz]

Nice idea.

All my terrains you can freely publish.

[USRanger]

Only problem will be that they are so outdated from so many terrain versions ago that they probably are unrecognizable from what they used to look like.
Load em up anyway.  Let's see em.

Btw, any terrain that was used in H2H became public property the moment they uploaded it for use.

[bbosen]

Only problem will be that they are so outdated from so many terrain versions ago that they probably are unrecognizable from what they used to look like.
Load em up anyway.  Let's see em.

Btw, any terrain that was used in H2H became public property the moment they uploaded it for use.

Ranger:

Thanks for your many contributions (and our hopes and prayers are with you and your family at this time)!

I hadn't realized that these were already "public property". Is that in the terms of use?

Regards,

[bbosen]

UPDATE:

Since there have been no objections and I've had influential encouragement, I've begun the process of publishing old terrains. I've started with my collection of terrains for Aces High "Classic" (AKA AH1). Here's the URL with background:

http://techvideoreview.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah1Terrains/Ah1TerrainsByOthers/Ah1TerrainsByOthersFullPage.htm

At present the page isn't as pretty as it will eventually become; I plan to add a screenshot showing the clipboard map for every one of these terrains.

Still to come: old H2H terrains for AH2. Enjoy!


-Peabody-

[ebfd11]

Peabody I have DL the survive and practice terrains and all I got was a CTD, I dont think these terrains are compatible.

[Ex-jazz]

Nice job there 

The P-h2h04B.res brings up so much good memories. One of my favorite h2h terrain.

[Easyscor]

Peabody I have DL the survive and practice terrains and all I got was a CTD, I dont think these terrains are compatible.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

All (I think) of those terrains require AHI, not AH2. There may be some AH2 terrains from the h2h days in there, but you'll need the old version of AH2 to run those as well. The terrain engine has been updated many times over the years.

[bbosen]

Correct. I've only published the "AH1" or "Aces High Classic" terrains thus far. I'll publish the AH2 collection soon. Please have patience. Eventually I'll try to publish screenshots of each associated clipboard map, but I'll need a little time for all of that. It'll amount to 40 or 50 new web pages. Maybe more. Stay tuned....


Regards,


-Peabody-

[Happy1]

  Peabody   for a job well done!  I d/l'd all of the AH1
terrains & had no probs testing or flying from them.  TY very much
for ur kindness & consideration, am looking forward to others on AH2.
     

[bbosen]

Happy1: Glad I could help. I've just found a whole bunch more AH1 terrains and I hope to get them uploaded and published within the next few days. The new ones include a bunch of the "official" ones that were originally published on the HiTechCreations.com website. This new group of AH1 terrains will delay publication of the AH2 ones. Sorry about that...  all in due time.


-Peabody-

[ebfd11]

Ok,
 Dumb question, where am I able to get a ah classic d/l?
I would love to see what these terrains look like.

[Happy1]

Hi    see Reply # 6 above, all data's there, on this msg board.