OHM LC39A SpaceX

[BrianJ]

Does your access arm roll back and forth to the rocket.

Yes. The Crew Access Arm is actually part of the LC39A "Strongback" vessel in the "Falcon9 for Orbiter2016" package.
Arm is automatically retracted if the Strongback is lowered.
Press B to rotate the Arm while Strongback is in raised position.

 

[spacman]

Thank you it looks great!:tiphat:

 

[Kyle]

Cladded up!

 

[BrianJ]

Update 190407 on OH:

Now with cladding

 

[fatcat]

Water Tank Shadow

Hi Brian et all,

How great is the SpaceX with Orbiter 2016! Thank you so much.
I run it on a mac and it runs fantastic.
Something special about real life spacecraft/rockets.

A tiny, tiny observation Brian. The LC39A water tower has a permanent shadow but also a shadow that moves with the Sun, but it runs under the launch pad textures. I have put an image here. What decides how the shadow renders over/under other objects?
It's a tiny observation, but last time I asked about something, you guys blew us away and came back immediately with the Context parameter to link launch site textures to vessels
:tiphat::hello::thumbup:
Tony

 

[BrianJ]

Hi,
you'll need to do a little file editing (using Notepad or whatever text editor you have).

If you're using the default Orbiter2016 graphics, you only have the choice of having shadows from the entire pad mesh, or none at all.
Find your /Config/Earth/BaseSpaceX/Canaveral.cfg file, open it and delete the first line that says SHADOW, in this section at the top....

BEGIN_OBJECTLIST
MESH ; Pad 39A
	FILE lc39a_spacex/lc39a_spacex
	POS -2659 0.1 4640
	ROT 180
	OWNMATERIAL
	PRELOAD
	[B]SHADOW[/B]
END

If you're using the D3D9 Graphics Client(I have the R2 version) you can remove only the Water Tower shadow by changing SHADOW to OWNSHADOW....

BEGIN_OBJECTLIST
MESH ; Pad 39A
	FILE lc39a_spacex/lc39a_spacex
	POS -2659 0.1 4640
	ROT 180
	OWNMATERIAL
	PRELOAD
	[B]OWNSHADOW[/B]
END

But you also need to edit the mesh, so find /Meshes/lc39a_spacex/lc39a_spacex.msh, open it, find the line

LABEL mesh03

and add this line underneath it

FLAG 0x00000001

Do the same again(add the line FLAG 0x00000001 underneath it) with line

LABEL mesh01x

Should do the trick

NOTE: It should be possible to use the second method with default Orbiter2016 graphics as well, but I think it's broken.

Cheers,
Brian

 

[fatcat]

Worked great Brian. I used your second method and it changed both the D3D9 orbiter_ng.exe and default orbiter.exe.
What mesh names would be the launch tower?
Thanks heaps.:thumbup:

 

[BrianJ]

Worked great Brian. I used your second method and it changed both the D3D9 orbiter_ng.exe and default orbiter.exe.
What mesh names would be the launch tower?
Thanks heaps.:thumbup:

Hi,
I guess by "launch tower" you mean what I call the FSS? (the tower with the crew access arm attached). The mesh groups for that are:

LABEL mesh01panel
LABEL mesh01panel01
LABEL mesh102
LABEL mesh102add
LABEL mesh103
LABEL mesh118
LABEL mesh13add

Interesting the OWNSHADOW method works for you with default Orbiter2016 graphics - I wonder why not on mine? (or maybe I'm just not looking carefully!)
Cheers,
Brian

 

[fatcat]

Super.
I also did the access arm. Just a learning curve. I will probably change back at some stage.