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A Falcon Heavy launches at night with a Chapman Outer probe bound for Haumea.
Orbital Sunrise
Departure
A sing by Jupiter
A mid-course correction.
Saturn Encounter
Saturn Periapsis
Haumea Encounter
Periapsis over North Pole
Encounter with Namaka
Hail probe! :hailprobe:
Can somebody categorize all of these extra texture areas adequately? Vandenberg, Boca Chica, etc. all have some mysterious links to them that I have no way of 100% knowing if it's the right one.
I'm having a bit of a problem with a surface base I'm using on Mercury. It is appearing under the surface. I am using Myron Base by jplaja and the high-resoulution Mercury terrain from the official Orbiter website.
Here is the beginning of the code from the config file for the base. I...
Well, in many cases the older textures are much higher-quality than those included with the default install and the additional hi-res packs when it comes to the outer planets. So there is definitely demand from me here, and presumably other Orbinauts as well who like to fly out there.
Ok, it worked. However, the texture visually does not appear at the higher resolution that I was expecting. Plus, it is only doing up to level 7, not 8 as I was expecting. I set the max patch resolution in the config file to 8.
This was my input:
F:\Games\Orbiter\ot3>treeman...
Trying to convert a .tex file to a Surf.tree file. Not sure exactly how to properly input the syntax. The .tex file is located in a different directory and the Surf.tree file is in the main orbiter texture directory. Also I got two errors:
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