Black Dart update

[Coolhand]

Careful you guys don't bite off more than you can chew... Altea has 'friends'.

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1288/ppuser/411

 

[tgep]

hmm, looks impossible, unless you have the ability to correct orbit inclination in order to fly precisely above the target. Otherwise you'll never have a green

Wouldn't the BaseAlign Mfd work for that ?

 

[Donamy]

Those ships are far in the future, well beyond Ravenstar and the Black Dart. 500 years probably.

 

[Woo482]

Careful you guys don't bite off more than you can chew... Altea has 'friends'.

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1288/ppuser/411

HOLY **** THATS A MEEN LOOKING SHIP !!!!!!!! And very detailed

 

[Coolhand]

They can time travel.

 

[Donamy]

No they can't, time travel is impossible, you're bluffing. We'll see what Altea Space has to say about these alagations.

 

[Woo482]

What can time travel ?

 

[Urwumpe]

You code 'em, I'll make 'em !!

No problem, you make them, I'll code them.

I just tested my "hot needle productions" aerodynamics for the Skylon, the results are already almost perfect (instable around the roll axis, pitch sensitive, stable around yaw), just need to tweak the numbers for lift-off velocity (20 m/s too high, need ground effect). If I am similar lucky on such a plane, It should become a real beast to fly.

A cute space-fighter like VC would then also be nice for fire control. Like two standard orbiter MFDs, one special system management display (with C&W indications), one large HSI/Map display and two general purpose computer displays, which do weapon management and NCTR... :speakcool:

EDIT: Coolhand: You did the "Akula"? I was really impressed by this design some months ago, when I saw it, a nice quote of historic soviet navy elements.

 

[Coolhand]

No they can't, time travel is impossible.

Not at all, you're travelling through time right now

 

[Donamy]

Symantics... I knew you were bluffing.

 

[Coolhand]

EDIT: Coolhand: You did the "Akula"? I was really impressed by this design some months ago, when I saw it, a nice quote of historic soviet navy elements.

Yeah, she's (well he, probably, considering the faction) all my own... For my Sol universe project... Of which Orbiter has helped quite a bit with my research.

did you see it somewhere without my credits? i occasionally have my work ripped off and the credits stripped.

It uses 3 million triangles so it won't go into orbiter yet... however once (if) we can do normal mapping in orbiter then it would be viable for generating normal maps for a lower detail model, which should run nicely and look nearly as detailed as the high poly version.

 

[Urwumpe]

Yeah, she's (well he, probably, considering the faction) all my own... For my Sol universe project... Of which Orbiter has helped quite a bit with my research.

did you see it somewhere without my credits? i occasionally have my work ripped off and the credits stripped.

No, I think I the URL was the same, I just googled for more information on the Akula submarine. I just did not yet associate "Coolhand" with Orbiter and did not care much about the design, as it did not look like I will see it in orbiter soon. :lol:

But lets pray for normal mapping, I want a large battle ship with many weapon turrets in orbiter one day.

 

[yagni01]

Careful you guys don't bite off more than you can chew... Altea has 'friends'.

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1288/ppuser/411

Looks like something the CoDominium should have.

 

[Andy44]

Looks like something the CoDominium should have.

Greetings, fellow Jerry Pournelle fan.

 

[Donamy]

Black Dart update:

 

[Donamy]

Another:

 

[Urwumpe]

Now that VC is cute. Could need a warning light matrix somewhere, but the general layout looks pretty realistic like that.

The launch vehicle looks a bit huge, can't it be launched by a smaller two stage launcher?

 

[Donamy]

You're the rocket scientist.

 

[Urwumpe]

You're the rocket scientist.

Well, unless you use UMDH/N2O4, a rocket of that size should be able to send this plane to the moon.

 

[Donamy]

That would be cool !! How about Mars ?