Orbiter Flag Challange - "Grand Tour" style

[T.Neo]

Setting that flag on Phobos is a pain! :compbash2:

I'll float off into space only to come back down again as the computer voice keeps annoying me by saying "beep, rotation, beep, rotation, beep rotation.

After this experiance,I doubt I'll do Deimos in the same manner.

 

[HiPotOk1978]

what about ships such as deepstar... if we have to refuel, can we use the scn editor or do we have to play out like launching an XR5 to the ship for fuel transfers. Does there have ote be a base to reload fuel?

 

[Artlav]

Let's see... Sounds interesting.
The beginning:
http://orbides.1gb.ru/gt-gal.php
Any point in continuing?

 

[Fizyk]

One things always bugged me... Do you have to change the XR2 config file to have enough oxygen to go anywhere further than the Moon, or is there any other way?

 

[Artlav]

Put an O2 brick into your payload bay - 5000 days of O2 per crew member.

 

[T.Neo]

One things always bugged me... Do you have to change the XR2 config file to have enough oxygen to go anywhere further than the Moon, or is there any other way?

I've docked to the Deepstar and opened both airlock doors, the O2 just keeps on flowing.
You could carry a craft in the plb to dock to.

what about ships such as deepstar... if we have to refuel, can we use the scn editor or do we have to play out like launching an XR5 to the ship for fuel transfers. Does there have ote be a base to reload fuel?

I'm guessing I'll have to do a refuel around one of the gas giants, when I do I'll use kulch's FSS beta. Don't know how it got out there .

http://orbides.1gb.ru/gt-gal.php

That is brilliant, Artlav! I considered Shukra, but I thought landing on it would be too much of a pain.

For Venus, can I push a small reentry capsule out of the XR2 airlock, that can deploy the flag robotically? Or is this cheating?

 

[Fizyk]

I never thought of this, thanks
I put two LOX tanks in the payload bay, but it only gave me 840 days of O2. Did you mean it is 5000 days if I have only one crew member?

 

[T.Neo]

I put two LOX tanks in the payload bay, but it only gave me 840 days of O2. Did you mean it is 5000 days if I have only one crew member?

Here is a tip: Don't carry a full crew compliment. I'm only carrying five.

 

[Whatu]

http://orbides.1gb.ru/gt-gal.php
Any point in continuing?

All of my points for continuing

 

[T.Neo]

All of my points for continuing

Agreed!
Keep on flying, Artlav!

 

[Artlav]

Okay, Chapter 2:
http://orbides.1gb.ru/gt-gal.php?lng=&mode=gft2

 

[T.Neo]

...And you feel like standing on the top of the world...

Another brilliant chapter! Keep them coming!

What particular date did you set off from Mercury, Artlav?

And Orulex looks brilliant, though I'm avoiding it in fear that it will eat up my bandwidth.

EDIT:
Deimos Flyby:

I feel small.

 

[Artlav]

What particular date did you set off from Mercury, Artlav?

And Orulex looks brilliant, though I'm avoiding it in fear that it will eat up my bandwidth.

About MJD 40932.
What kind of bandwidth are you talking about?
FPS?

 

[T.Neo]

What kind of bandwidth are you talking about?
FPS?

No.

Apparently my ISP allows me 2GB of bandwidth a month, if I exceed that, they'll shut off my internet, which isn't good.
Orulex gets it's data from some other place on the internet, thus, running orulex will use up that bandwidth. Or so I think, I may not be entirly sure...

 

[James.Denholm]

Very poetic captions, Artlav! You sure you aren't William re-incarnate?

 

[Artlav]

Orulex gets it's data from some other place on the internet, thus, running orulex will use up that bandwidth. Or so I think, I may not be entirly sure...

No, not unless you tell it to, and never at run-time.
It generates terrain dynamically out of fractal functions for all bodies except Earth, Moon and Mars. For these 3 there are pre-generated heightmaps that you download along with the system.
Then for some of the planets you can download high-resolution data out of World Studio, by your choice.

Very poetic captions, Artlav! You sure you aren't William re-incarnate?

And i thought they was just as witty as a drunk man's brilliant idea of making a starship by running socks thru soda bottles.

 

[T.Neo]

No, not unless you tell it to, and never at run-time.
It generates terrain dynamically out of fractal functions for all bodies except Earth, Moon and Mars. For these 3 there are pre-generated heightmaps that you download along with the system.
Then for some of the planets you can download high-resolution data out of World Studio, by your choice.

So it won't use up bandwidth; I can use it independant of the internet?

 

[Artlav]

So it won't use up bandwidth; I can use it independant of the internet?

Yes. Orulex is independent from the internet, World Studio is not.

 

[T.Neo]

Tried out orulex, put my Mars landing site under a hill, so I created a base to "craterise" it. Now, I can see under the terrain, a tiny little gap of sky. Any way to fix this?

 

[Artlav]

Grand Flagplanting Tour Chapter 3 (Mars and it's demons):
http://orbides.1gb.ru/gt-gal.php?lng=eng&mode=gft3

Now, I can see under the terrain, a tiny little gap of sky. Any way to fix this?

Don't ask a meowing dog to purr. (No way to fix it)