Stephen1918

Today I unloaded the Sopwith Schneider, a 1914 floatplane. There are two skins, one with British flags on the wings, and a later version with roundels. It's armed with a Lewis gun and can carry a small bomb load. Thanks to ojcar for test flying the model and writing the FM. Since First Eagles isn't really made for water based aircraft, ojcar has included instructions for taking off. I have a land based version, the Tabloid, in progress.

View File Sopwith Schneider The Sopwith Schneider was the floatplane variant of the Tabloid, and won the Schneider racing trophy in 1914. It was quickly adopted by the British military and was used by the Royal Navy throughout the war. Early versions used wing warping instead of ailerons. Some were armed with Lewis guns on the upper wing and could carry small bomb loads. The Schneider was used mostly for recon, some were used to intercept Zeppelins over the North Sea and some were used to attack land based targets. Since it's a float plane, the Sopwith Schneider works best in the North Sea terrain, or in Flanders, Gibraltar or other terrain that has a lot of water. The plane will actually take off and land from a conventional airfield, but it looks strange to see the floats going under the ground. Ojcar has included take off instructions in a separate text file. I have created two skins, an early version with the British flag on the wings, and a later version with roundel markings. I have included a set of number decals. My skinning templates are included with the download. Credits Thanks to Ojcar for making the data file for the Sopwith Schneider and for providing instructions for taking off. Thanks also to Nix for creating the sound file for the Gnome 100hp engine. Installation Instructions For FE1 - Unzip the file and move the folder named "SopwithSchneider" into the FirstEagles/Objects/Aircraft folder. You also need to move the sound file "gnome100m2.wav" into the FirstEagles/Sounds folder. For FE2 - Unzip the file and move the folder named "SopwithSchneider" into the FirstEagles/Objects/Aircraft folder. Then in the FirstEagles/Objects/Decals folder, create new folder named "SopwithSchneider". Move the folder named "D" from the Aircraft/SopwithSchneider folder into the Decals/SopwithSchneider folder you just made. You also need to move the sound file "gnome100m2.wav" into the FirstEagles/Sounds folder. Submitter Stephen1918 Submitted 10/29/2013 Category Sopwith

Gterl, I am truly impressed with the amount of work you're doing. I spent more than a year on the Galicia terrain, and that was just converting an existing terrain. You started from scratch and the results are amazing. I'm looking forward to the final version.

It looks like you've done a lot of work. I especially like the way the cities look. I'm looking forward to these.

I took a look, rigging the model for the game engine looks much more complicated than for FE. I won't do anything for IL2 in the near future, but it might be something I'll want to take on when I have more time. Thanks for the info, it does look like a good game.

Nice looking pups!

Gambit168, I've never tried IL2. Who makes it, and where can I get the modding tools? I don't know if I want to add any more projects at the moment, but if the conversion is easy to do, I may try. Thanks for the info!

Thanks for your kind words, gentlemen. The revised British Destroyer is being tested now. I'll upload it as soon as any necessary corrections are completed.

I think I can do that. I had a rough summer - things were happening with my family that needed my attention. Since then it's been hard getting back into the swing with First Eagles. I have several projects that I haven't really worked on since June. I think maybe some smaller projects will help me get back into the routine. I'll see what I can do with the Destroyer.

Lots of nice detail photos here. Thanks for posting.

Beautiful terrain, Gterl. It will be nice to just fly over it and enjoy the view.

Thanks Eric and Dave and everyone else involved for all the work you've done keeping Combat Ace alive and functional. I've noticed that some of my files are broken, would it help if I uploaded the original files myself?

I went through this when I upgraded to Windows 7. Installing a lower version of DirectX does not affect how the higher version runs. The avatars want to be square, so your Hurricane is being smashed from a rectangle into a square. Try adding some white space to the top and bottom of the image to make it a square.

The level of detail is outstanding. Nice work!

I agree with Ojcar, the cockpit is... Wow!

The Japanese seaplane tender looks great! I'm glad that you could find another use for some of my ships. I like that FE and SF are so modular.

Thanks for your work on this. A nice addition to First Eagles! I'm discovering that taking off and landing on water is a very different experience. Nice work ojcar!

The RAF BE 2c, with v-strut landing gear, staggered wings, cut out in the upper wing, bump on the vertical stabilizer, and sump under the engine. The model is pretty much done. I'm still tweaking the rigging for the animations and linking. I still have the unwrapping for the skinning, the cockpit, the LODs, and entering all the model data into the FM. So I'm probably about half done. The gunner won't move past the struts, but I continued the gun rail and will include instructions for making him rotate in a wider arc. I tried a lot of different things and this is the best solution I could find. The rails on the side sort of look like a swivel mount. I'm planning to make another version with no gunner that can be used as a one man bomber.

Thanks, got em.

Well, it's flattering to be wanted. But it does get frustrating when I see long lists of "here's what I want." I'm simply not going to be able to get to them all. Priority is going to the people who have been helpful to me. As I said before, if you really want your plane, help me do the research. Right now I'm looking for photos of the cockpit of the RAF BE2c. I've spent days searching the internet and only turned up one or two photos. Any help you can offer will be appreciated.

I saw the camo scheme on a plastic model during an internet search. I have no idea if it's historical, but I liked it so I used it. Purists in the community probably shouldn't use it.

ojcar - I'm looking forward to the campaign. You refer to the "standard two weeks"? Hansa - It does need to be a separate install because it's really the stock FE using different ground objects, the two will get mixed up if they aren't separated.