Bandy 3 Posted April 30, 2009 Hi all, The Sopwith Tripehound was, and is in this game, a wonderful airplane to fly and fight in... I believe MvR himself said it was the best Entente aircraft he flew against. So it is with some love that I post this... I have disabled the ingame message text, warnings, etc. but when sitting in the Sopwith Triplane cockpit and looking around with Track IR, text still pops up saying "fuel level" etc. No other cockpit does this for me. When the Tripehound gets damaged, say loosing a wing after collision , the game freezes and then closes very quickly. The mission is complete and my pilot is reported as fine. Also, I installed the 3rd party tracer mod (I think standard now?) but tracer does not show up for Tripehound, nor for early Nieuports as far as I can tell, though I clearly see the lovely tracer when flying the Camel, and I sure see it from my Albatros opponents and ground fire !!!! Anyone else? PS: while on the subject, the Tripe does not loose velocity as fast as other biplanes, possibly due to less drag? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Polovski 460 Posted April 30, 2009 The text on screen is nothing to do with the message settings in CFS3Config. They are intentional "tooltips" in CFS3 if the instruments have them added in the model. They do in my craft and so when the mouse "hovers" over it will show the text. The mouse pointer goes invisible, but is still wherever you left it! Simply move the mouse and move the pointer off screen if you do not want them. The rest I have no idea, but install 1.30 and 1.30c and see re wing and tracers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hauksbee 103 Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) ...the Tripe does not loose velocity as fast as other biplanes, possibly due to less drag? Not an engineer, but I'd suspect that it's because of more lift, rather than less drag. Edited April 30, 2009 by Hauksbee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
griphos 0 Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) The Tripe is a floater, no doubt about that! And it is draggy as well. How not, with all those appendages hanging out there with all their wires. But I'm guessing (also not being an engineer) that it has a very light wing loading (which is also why it climbs so well). I mean the weight is spread across quite a bit of wing real estate. Usually, craft with light wing loading will tend to float and take a long time to lose speed while landing. I've noticed I have to come in pretty slow and if not, slip generously while approaching to get her down. But isn't she fun!? I've mostly flown her in MP, never in campaign yet, but I'm champing at the bit to do so. I've got a new pilot back in RNAS 8 who's in Pups now (late 1916). I'm going to be very careful with him and see if I can get him to the Tripe. Can't say about the crashing or tracers. Never experienced that. Hmmmm...... Edited April 30, 2009 by griphos Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
