CaptSopwith

I'm resisting the urge to make another CaptSopwith: Any Landing sig pic out of that one...

Ever take your wrist watch and sync it with the time in the sim? Then check your waypoints by your watch, rather than the sim? Yeah, we're both long gone, but in good company.

Rabu, I used your 4-Seasons terrain set in every patch I used - from WFP to HASP to my "classic collection" from Beery, WingStrut, and Baron von Benz. A very big Salute to you, sir.

Remarkable, remarkable collection. Now you're just leaving my jaw on the desk.

Yikes! That is a harsh ending!

In the old Delphi days you could alter your handle to include a nickname - I added in Prof, which a lot of folks called me, half jokingly because yes, I was in high school! RB saw me through HS and College, and OFF will keep me occupied during grad school (if grad school and my wonderful g/f weren't enough! lol). I remember those names! I was very saddened to hear when Pat lost his wife earlier this year. It's a funny thing, these forums. We all come here for a common interest and we wind up forming "friendships" of sorts with the other members around us. Pat was always an all around great guy and it was so terrible to hear about his loss. You really form a bond with these guys.

I think I started writing up some history on terrain modeling, but I never finished it, a lot of RL crap interfered and it wound up lost. Truthfully, that history could have been a lot better - both stylistically and in terms of content. I barely scratched the surface, listed the major UOP's, talked about FM/DM and called it a day. I was hoping someone else would come along and add to it, but alas. I still don't know how you guys find the time. You do a hell of a lot of work and manage jobs and families at the same time.

This video was posted earlier this week by another forum member. Since then, I've listened to Lay Me Low about a dozen times and felt compelled to share this video again. It's worth another look for anyone who may have missed the original posting. And this is a video that OvS came across some time ago, and is so powerful I had to repost it. There's no reason why we can't remember these brave souls on a regular "non-remembrance day" Friday. World War I In Colour - Hell In The Trenches And finally, a clip from The Great War In Colour - with interviews from some of the last veterans left alive. The Great War In Colour --- Never Forget

Wow, Gremlin. Absolutely! I had forgotten that Wings of Honor had that old article posted over there. Thanks for hanging on to it! It's not my best work, but I enjoyed writing that over Christmas break back in college. Yeah, I have no idea why Wikipedia took it down - I'm just very thankful that it's been preserved in a few places. Would have been a shame to just lose all of it. S!

I'm running OFF on a pretty mainstream gaming computer. It's a year old Gateway FX 7024 gaming PC with an overclocked GeForce 8800 GT. I run in 1200x800. So, doing some comparison, I would argue that you would want a very high end system. Newest nVidia card, a lot of ram, a high processor speed (though multi-core doesn't really help in OFF), etc. It's a high end sim in terms of the visuals it's cranking out - even though it is using CFS3 (though I would argue that it's been modded to the point that only the base skeleton of that graphics engine is left so comparion system specs on stock CFS3 is pretty useless). In short, you want a lot of horsepower. If you have one of Google's servers lying about with one of those suitcase nuke sized nVidia portable graphics processors, you're off to a good start! Hope that gives you a basic idea. Cheers mate!

Awesome! Thanks Rickity, I appreciate it!

Yep, this looks like the one Turner Classic Movies used to run back in the day. No Ernst Borgnine to be found!

I remember when Karel relased his first Fokker Dr1 model back in, what was it? 2001? Heading over to SWWISA and checking out his page and thinking "wow! I had no idea we could do that!" The difference between the paper cutout we had in the RBII and the living, moving model he made - complete with wires, a rotating engine, machine guns that were more than black rectangular lego blocks. My jaw hit the desk. The detail, at the time, was phenominal. And the best part - and this was the magic he brought to the community - he did it all without sacraficing FPS. You could fight a swarm of these high detail Fokkers and not drop a single frame. He really was a miracle worker. And a genuinely good guy. I enjoyed the few messages we exchanged before he passed. I imagine he'd be incredibly pleased with OFF. In my own way, I see the Fokkers and Sopwiths buzzing around OFF as the grandchildren of those first Fokker and Sopwith models released seven or eight years ago (wow, has it really been that long already??). S! Karel. I know you're loving the show!

Nice bit of info there Shred, thanks for passing that along. I love this forum, I learn something new everyday!

I just noticed this was still up over at James old HASP site. For anyone in the mood for some decent (I wouldn't call it great) reading about the devleopment of RB3D's mods over the years, I wrote a brief history of it and James was kind enough to host it. This was quite some time ago (2004 I think?) but I figured if we were on a reminiscence streak, it might be fun. http://www.hellsangels.firstflare.com/history.htm

Hey guys, I've got a quick question for you and I'm a tad embarassed I need to even ask. I'm using an old Microsoft Sidewinder 2 joystick in Vista for OFF. I cannot seem to remember how, or perhaps it has changed, but at any rate, how do I remap my button commands to apply some keys to OFF? Is there a setting somewhere in OFF or do I need to do it in Windows? Mind you, the Sidewinder 2 software is not installed - Vista simply recognized it when I plugged it in. Thoughts appreciated in advance. S!

Creaghorn, I noticed something on the stahlgewitter site you linked to. If you look under the video's section you'll find the full versino of the 1930 Release of All Quiet On The Western Front for download as a Divx file. Just thought I'd pass that along to the rest of us here.

Awesome find Creaghorn! Looks like a great source, and a great way to practice my German outside of Rosetta Stone.

Oh wow! Now that takes me back! HASP is still a damn pretty patch - shame RB3D runs like it's hopped up on speed on my new PC. Nothing I can try will ever slow it down and OFF calls just a little too loudly to me.

Three Cheers for the RAF! Happy Birthday!

Nice one tttiger! I think I'm going with an RNAS career. I've flown the SE5 a lot lately and perhaps it's time to give old Tommy and his crates another go. I've been so leery of the Camel that I've ducked the challenge. Time to change that. I'm surprised I haven't heard any Hun suggestions yet. Is it the name, fellas?

That is a remarkable collection. The historian in me would love to see it, and the WWI aviation buff in me is drooling! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent work HomeBoy! I'm saving it for when I get a printer to actually print it off with! Thanks for passing this on to the rest of us OFF'ers!

Indeed! Fantastic screenshots. I'm getting the itch to go flying again!

I agree, I'm all for any enthusiast who wants to add a little WWI to their flight sims. The more the merrier. In response to what you said, Yes, dear God I got so sick of my pilots screaming at me for leaving formation in IL2. Excuse me if I'm evading fire as a pack of 109's start shooting us up from 6 o'clock! Depends on how much free time they have. You know forum people!