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So here is the OMS pods for the late Orbiters variants. The LRSI tiles and the AFRSI blankets show the damage and the scorchings accumulated with time and the small insulation rings are all faded and on some tiles missing. Normal maps have been added. It's been quite an effort but I am pretty...

I can’t think of a way to make a decent bulkhead without a hi res photo as a source. The only doable thing would be to increase the texture resolution but I doubt the outcome would be much different than the original one... :shrug:

I'll have a look at it In the meantime here is some pre-views of the new OMS pod. No normal map added yet and some little tweaking required (one of the lower doors need to be moved as it is partially out of the pod perimeter). The Pods are now a bit brighter and I have added some scorching to...

Ok, I spent most of the day yesterday working on the OMS POD blankets (AFRSI) and now the texture matches your pattern with the only difference I am working on some blankets on the inner side of the pod in the area where they merge with the LRSI tiles. They have a slightly different orientation...

I already had in mind to make new areas (new OMS PODS AFRSI, ODS, Landing gear system, some HRSI areas). It all depends on hi-res pictures and time available. I could add the bulkhead to the list. About the OMS PODS I remember you referring to an AFRSI layout you made which I could use for the...

Too bad they don’t seem to have any orbiter available: they have Buran and no Shuttle????!!! :facepalm::WTF:

Well new products trailers are always a bit tricky (often raising the expectations beyond legit) but if the graphics, terrain and weather engine are even only 70% of what the video shows than I’ll surely give it a try

Can anyone post some link to nice/detailed models of the orbiter? Nothing to build on your own but rather already assembled. I know Bandai was selling a very nice stack (and very expensive too) but I guess it is not available anymore. I’ve checked the NASA online shop ones but they look more...

That would improve a lot the look in that area. Much appreciated, thanks :thumbup:

This is something I have been thinking since I started working on SSU textures and I haven’t figured out yet: When you look at them you will see no or very little scorchings and wear signs. I did that on purpose in order to show the orbiters as they were when initially released to service...

I’ll do that

Talking about symmetry, while I was analyzing the PB DOORS seams I noticed the line where the 2 doors merge when closed is slightly offset the orbiter X Axis. The following pics show that; I initially thought the camera itself was offset but it does indeed seem it is right on top of the orbiter...

I guess this was not always the case. There are several pictures showing the dots on both the OMS PODS LRSI and HRSI tiles. These are just two examples taken from STS-117 and STS-127 So what shall we do with SSU textures? 1) keep them 2) erase them 3) make them less visible (some fading...

It could be. One thing though is that the two vertical stab textures are not perfectly specular. Initially I used the left one (horizontally rotated by 180 degrees) to get its right counterpart but surprisingly the tiles boundaries where the rudder/speedbrake inserts into the stabilizer did not...

For sure I would like to check them against the new mesh which should include the wing distortion fix before release, but that’s not my call :shrug:

Some previews ofthe new SSU hi resolution textures. All SSU orbiter variants will be covered with the new release (2 versions for Columbia, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour and one for Challenger. New photoreal rudder New LRSI white tiles and new star tracker module AFRSI blankets Details...