OHM Corn Ranch

[DaveS]

Thanks Donamy. I did get AC3D as the nearest thing to £D Studio, but haven't had time to get into it. Not helped by the manual not appearing on the help menu, even though the web site says it does. Found it in the AC3D directory, and plodding through bits.

I assume you change the window view from the default wireview somehow?

N.

You can change between wireframe and shaded by using the "W" key. Spacebar will switch between single view and quad-view.

 

[Notebook]

Back into tile mode, I found my copy of PSP 9, hurrah! Windows 10 savaged it when I let it do a rebuild. I now have a web page titled "Removed Applications" telling me what's gone. Talk about adding insult to injury.

This is the current LVL 9 situation:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/Image1_zpse5223ksp.jpg

White rectangle is the tile to be made next. I'll do two/three abreast along the road to the next pad, then see how they fit with the existing ones. Never done it tis way before, so don't know how long it will take.

N.

 

[Notebook]

Done a couple of lvl9 tiles, and get this:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.15 15-43-07 ShuttlePB_zpsmck0h6or.jpg

Seems to match ok, you can see the joining point at the right of frame.
Unfortunately, at altitude it looks like this:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.15 15-41-36 ShuttlePB_zpsdtrulzg5.jpg
The two new tiles have lost resolution compared to the old ones.

Don't know why this has happened, I'm using the sane progs to make them, so I must have forgot something. It looks like a mip-map thing, but the box is still checked for that.
Any ideas?

Edit: Looks like the resolution isn't there in the first place:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.15 16-03-40 ShuttlePB_zps2ctaopnt.jpg

If you look around the ShuttlePB its obvious at the join, so nothing to do with distance.
Have to find out whats changed from a few months ago!

Well, looks like I did Corn Ranch without mip-maps! Just switched it off and the tiles match now. Ho-hum, one for the checklist on the next base...

N.

 

[Notebook]

Done the main drag between the pads:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.16 00-50-48 ShuttlePB_zpsqolkdtvh.jpg

Should take a couple of days to work South to the main areas.

N.

 

[Notebook]

Done the run to the South, a mix of lvl7/9, starting on the South Area.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.16 23-37-43 GL-01_zpstq5smecf.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.16 23-47-26 GL-01_zpscg4yrjmx.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.16 23-51-57 GL-01_zps9vpfk8hs.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.17 00-51-17 GL-01_zps9meapilu.jpg
gratuitous pic

N.

 

[Donamy]

You must be using the beta version of Orbiter.

 

[Notebook]

Yes, for making bases and other development stuff. Might as well, it'll be the next big thing!

When I get the tiles done, is there somewhere I can leave the zip file for you to pick up?
I don't want to put them on Orbit Hangar as an extension to Corn Ranch, bit pointless I think.

N.

 

[Donamy]

I would say, just hold on to it for now. I just need a few of the tiles, where the buildings are, to get rid of the clutter and shadows.

 

[Notebook]

OK, no probs, its coming along...slowly.

Speeded up a bit, done the South Area and BE-4 to the East:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.17 23-19-16 ShuttlePB_zpsrmorn5s4.jpg

Doing the road between the two and will thicken up the area around the pads, probably do the road to the North.

N.

 

[Donamy]

Flight4 being readied.

 

[Notebook]

Donamy, how do you start your models? I've used plans and drawings in the past.

This my attempt at 3d construction, long time ago, and I think I got this method from
one of Dansteph's tutorials:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/Scammell_3.jpg

http://s89.photobucket.com/user/Notebook_04/media/Scammell_1.jpg.html



Thanks, N.

 

[Donamy]

Pretty much the same. Draw the shapes then extrude them. Do alot of extrude along path.

Here's the next one I'm working on. Turns out the JLG45E is only used in Kent, WA. I've see two of the Z-6034's in photos of the Corn Ranch site. They also have a couple JLG Ultra booms there.

 

[Notebook]

Very nice. Extrude-along-Path is a useful tool, its just making the path in the first place!
Always enjoyed the modelling, but I'm very slow. Might get back into it when the tiles are done for this.

N.

 

[Notebook]

Tried to fill in the desert bits with larger tiles, and its not working, have to think again. Am away for a bit, so nothing will happen for t least a week.

In the meantime, these are the South group of buildings, and the BE-4 site to the East at lvl 9 resolution.

Assembly building
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.19 19-40-20 ShuttlePB_zpsqzmiqn7t.jpg
West of Assembly building.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.19 19-38-36 ShuttlePB_zpsnzhcwpfe.jpg
South-West of assembly building.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.19 19-33-29 ShuttlePB_zpshtwqhvhi.jpg
BE-4 site
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.19 19-31-48 ShuttlePB_zpssh11anjo.jpg

Couple of general views

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.19 19-28-52 ShuttlePB_zps0skg7k50.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.06.19 19-59-15 ShuttlePB_zpsnm59hqbg.jpg

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[Notebook]

For Donamy:

I have a zip file of all the lvl 9 tiles made since Corn Ranch went on OH.
They cover the areas you want to clean up.

Is there somewhere I can put the zip file for you to pick up? Photobucket isn't interested, and its 35MB too big for here.

Had a look and its a 5MB limit for attachments here, if the relevant tiles come to less than that, I'll put it here.
Else an "intermediate" tile update would fit on OH till I finish the rest.

N.

 

[Donamy]

I think OH would be the best option.

 

[Donamy]

First pic with cleaned up tile near at the Assembly building. Thanks to Notebook.

And a special upload from BrianJ.

 

[Notebook]

To Donamy:

Have you cleaned up all the lvl 9 tiles you are going to do? If so, if you give me a list of them I'll finish the tile updates and leave those ones out so they don't over-write yours.

No rush, I'm having a new boiler installed in August, so nothing will happen till September.

That's the house, not me.

N.

 

[Donamy]

LOL, I have finished the ones at the launch and landing pads, also the assembly building area. I haven't gotten to the test stands yet.

When ever you can get time ,is fine.

 

[Notebook]

Excellent, I shall proceed at a stately rate, and watch British Gas cause mayhem to my thermodynamic habitat.

N.