Orbiter Screenshot Thread

fred18 · Mar 25, 2014

Isn't it in fact a tentative of reproducing orbiter inside orbiter itself?

why don't you use the already performed (amazing) job of martin? you could for example create a simplified system, porperly tweaked (for example with distance much much shorter, and with movements far far quicker, in order to see them without time acceleration), and find the way to draw planes and other effects in that. So you wouldn't have to re-do from scratch the orbiter core!

that's only a thinking/suggestion of course, the idea is really nice :thumbup:

dgatsoulis · Mar 25, 2014

I am completely aware of the whole "Yo-dawg" factor of this. (I almost posted the pics with Xzibit on them).

A mini custom solar system still is one of the options; it would be a lot simpler to place the planes at the correct coordinates, oriented vertically and then scale them to the limit.

But the way I want this to behave is a single scenario through the eyes of a ummu. You walk up to the "lesson-area",→the animations and narration begin,→ you watch the lesson→ you walk to your spacecraft and do what you just watched.

thepenguin · Mar 27, 2014

dgatsoulis said:
I am completely aware of the whole "Yo-dawg" factor of this. (I almost posted the pics with Xzibit on them).

A mini custom solar system still is one of the options; it would be a lot simpler to place the planes at the correct coordinates, oriented vertically and then scale them to the limit.

But the way I want this to behave is a single scenario through the eyes of a ummu. You walk up to the "lesson-area",→the animations and narration begin,→ you watch the lesson→ you walk to your spacecraft and do what you just watched.

I just got a crazy idea about base animations.

This may be a revolution in the way that people do bases for Orbiter, if it works...

Who says that the DG entering the hangar (or something else) can't open the hangar doors?

dgatsoulis · Mar 27, 2014

thepenguin said:
Who says that the DG entering the hangar (or something else) can't open the hangar doors?

No one. For years I've had my Clavius Base dome in wo2001 open with a distance trigger via lua. Of course it is a vessel, but even if it wasn't you can load any mesh you want on the spot (or preload it) and animate it do whatever you want.

thepenguin · Mar 27, 2014

dgatsoulis said:
No one. For years I've had my Clavius Base dome in wo2001 open with a distance trigger via lua. Of course it is a vessel, but even if it wasn't you can load any mesh you want on the spot (or preload it) and animate it do whatever you want.

Okay, glad to hear that I didn't just stumble upon an obvious way of doing things that everyone else missed. :thumbup:

Castor · Mar 28, 2014

Yurik said:

Here's one around Uranus..

Yurik · Mar 28, 2014

Base build in progress

Castor · Mar 29, 2014

Are we there yet?

romanasul · Mar 29, 2014

Nice picture Castor!

SolarLiner · Mar 29, 2014

Yurik said:
Base build in progress

I thought you were making the same base as I do! But fortunately yours does not exist IRL (I think), whereas mine does!

Yurik · Mar 29, 2014

SolarLiner said:
But fortunately yours does not exist IRL (I think), whereas mine does!

You right! My base is fictional, but I'll try to make it an acceptable form. It's on 46.06 N.

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Just for scale=)

I see my shadow! Altitude is 400 km

Nice view on earth

Finally found, and fix texture shaking bug :cheers: