MARS Expedition 1 Simulator

[blixel]

The video below came up in my youtube search for recent videos containing the word Orbiter. I thought it looked pretty interesting. I searched O-F for variations of "Mars Expedition 1 Simulator" and couldn't find anything, so I thought I'd post this.

From the video, I could see the vehicle passing straight through the rocks on the Martian surface. So it looks like it has a fairly limited environment. The landing of the probe also looked quite weird there around 3:35. The lander looked like it was hanging in the sky on a wire or something. Weird visual.

Still, for people who like to make Orbiter films, this looks like it could be useful. (Assuming it's not vaporware.)

The video description says this will be a freeware conversion of Vehicle Simulator.

 

[ionif]

Mod for Vehicle Simulator 2.5.2. You can download from here: http://marsexpedition1.com/

 

[PennyBlack]

The manual for this has the most important pages cut down the center and although I have downloaded and installed the software, installed the update and activated the mod, I cannot find the VSF.exe.

I am frustrated with this... how are you guy's running this.!!!

 

[wingnut]

There has been a thread around for this for quite some time but surprisingly it hitherto received little attention: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=32175

 

[PennyBlack]

:facepalm:

Forgive my stupidity, you need that Vehicle Simulator to run with this.

Unfortunate. :beathead:

 

[wingnut]

It works with the demo version, too. The demo is limited to a couple of minutes of ingame play however after which you are prompted back to the main menu or so.