Mars and Moon surface textures

[diggercam88]

I hate to make another thread but I had one more question! I installed the Mars Level 10 Package and the Moon Level 9 package and when I proceed to land on the surface Its just a flat piece of land with no rocks or anything? Isnt there at least suspose to be hills or rocks? Its just like a flat piece of paper colored brown or gray?

 

[ar81]

Yes. Orbiter is a space flight sim, and it is still work in progress, so mountains and terrain surface is not yet modelled in 3D. Such terrain would also require collision detection routines.

Artlav has been working on an addon that does it. It think it is Orulex or Meshland, which is also work in progress.

If you see Battlezone, you may have more detailed surface terrain, but the mission world is very small. In Orbiter you have to load all solar system and vessels and MFDs into RAM.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Isnt there at least suspose to be hills or rocks? Its just like a flat piece of paper colored brown or gray?

Nope.

Just flat.

If you want terrain you need to install Orulex.

BTW: have you tried these Earth L10 textures?
www.setheden.com/LandSat/Maps/MapsIndex.htm
(Download Earth L10 package)

 

[unknown_orbiter]

Yes, Orulex has integrated both terrain and collision detection into an add-on. Search for it, it is quite useful

 

[diggercam88]

Thanks for the help guy's! Very useful info! Orulex seems to be a demanding program. I'll give it a shot!
Thanks again!

Oh and btw.... that earth texture is a beaut!

 

[unknown_orbiter]

Nah I never had performance issues with Orulex. It uses VERY simple algorithms to detect collisions. Also remember that the actual "physical" terrain is virtually infinitely thin, therefore your comp only has to sweat to draw the polygons onscreen, without any depth eating up your CPU .

 

[blane]

So far I have not used Orulex -- besically because I heard from different people that it still has some issues. Is it actually stable and ready to use (sorry, I certainly don't mean to offend the developers, so I'm looking for opinions from people who have experience with Orulex).

 

[unknown_orbiter]

I need to run a few tests with it to give you an accurate answer to that. Like doing some unscripted tests (crash into phobos base landing pad, see if i bounce )