Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[gamer19]

 

[CurlSnout]

Classic retro-future. A spacecraft concept inspired by the 'Round The Moon' design of Wernher von Braun and the Collier's illustrations by Chesley Bonestell. First released as a plastic model kit by Lindberg in 1958 as the 'U.S. Moon Ship.' Re-issued (with new box art) in the 1960s as the 'Mars Probe Landing Module' - then again in the 1970s as the 'Star Probe Space Shuttle.' Finally, in the 1990s, Glencoe re-issued the model (new box art again and different decals) and called it the 'Lunar Lander'. I have the Lindberg 'Star Probe' version, which I built years ago, sitting on a shelf.

My (Blender/Multistage2015) model for Orbiter borrows from all of the above (and is scaled appropriately), but fidelity is less than 100% - I made some changes in the vertical supports and landing legs, and eliminated the bottom tier of horizontal struts that are included in the plastic models (The von Braun/Bonestell designs did not include either set of horizontal struts, and lacked landing legs altogether - as the ship was intended strictly for travel in space, among orbiting or otherwise off-planet stations.).

Anyway.











Peace,

cs

 

[CurlSnout]

One more, for dramatic effect (and yes, I am aware that it is hovering slightly above the lunar surface):

Hi-Ho,



cs

 

[N_Molson]

It really has an unique look !

 

[Max-Q]

Just some screenshots from NASSP. Several missions and not in order...

 

[Matias Saibene]

Spaceplanes for the win!

Wonderful normalmaps by pennyblack.

An der schönen blauen Donau intensifies...

 

[francisdrake]

Here a SpaceTug is used to extend the range of the CrewDragon. The tug is a modifed DragonXL with SuperDraco engines and habitation space. Two drop tanks are lifted into low Earth orbit by FalconHeavies and are attached to the sides of the tug. This provides an additional dV of 5.6 km/s .

 

[Matias Saibene]

Remember when this was impossible?




Madness flying


Wait, two Delta Gliders and one on steroids?

 

[N_Molson]

That's a sturdy docking port ?

 

[Caracal]

Local engineer finds out special trick for better aerobraking

 

[Matias Saibene]

Guess the operating system.



Hint: indirect descendant of a project from 1969 and with excellent graphical interface.

 

[Sbb1413]

Guess the operating system.
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Hint: indirect descendant of a project from 1969 and with excellent graphical interface.

Linux? ?
If your operating system is Linux, then the 1969 project might be UNIX.
I also want to convert my old Windows 7 computer (not the current Windows 11 laptop) into a Linux computer.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Linux? ?
If your operating system is Linux, then the 1969 project might be UNIX.
I also want to convert my old Windows 7 computer (not the current Windows 11 laptop) into a Linux computer.

Linux, exactly!
If you want to enter the wonderful world of Linux a good option is Manjaro (if your computer is 64bit) it has the latest of the latest updated programs. If your computer is 32bit or you want a system that doesn't require as many updates you can download Debian. If you need help don't hesitate to contact me. I don't know much about computers but I know a bit about Linux.

 

[Gondos]

Madeleine de Proust ^^

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Right over the Cape and Sunset!

 

[Matias Saibene]

Madeleine de Proust ^^
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Oh my CDE!
By the way it is CDE or NsCDE? because I understand that CDE is not very secure and the code is very old. But a user of FVWM created a kind of desktop CDE (the NsCDE or Not so Common Desktop Environment) that is much more functional and I currently use it when I am on battery because it uses few resources.
https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

And by the way, what Linux distribution do you use?

 

[Gondos]

Oh my CDE!
By the way it is CDE or NsCDE? because I understand that CDE is not very secure and the code is very old. But a user of FVWM created a kind of desktop CDE (the NsCDE or Not so Common Desktop Environment) that is much more functional and I currently use it when I am on battery because it uses few resources.
https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

And by the way, what Linux distribution do you use?

OpenCDE is quite complicated to build, with dependencies on packages not existing anymore. Managed to compile it on a 64bit gentoo on a RPI3 a while ago but it was quite a hassle...
So yeah, NsCDE is the way to go, on Linux Mint

 

[Matias Saibene]

Testing Orbiter natively on Linux:

In TWM (older than CDE).






In VLEO (Very Low Earth Orbit) for the first time in Linux natively.


I didn't know about the new DeltaGlider radiator animation.


Cuz, why not?


This is all for testing ship animations in Orbiter under Linux. Thanks to @Gondos for porting Orbiter to UNIX-likes and to @martins for releasing the source code for this great simulator.

 

[jedidia]

How do you deal with all the win-api UI code in there? Do you have to rewrite all that, or are there some wrapper libs around?

 

[Gondos]

How do you deal with all the win-api UI code in there? Do you have to rewrite all that, or are there some wrapper libs around?

It needs a complete rewrite :\
The point of this branch is to see what can be done with Dear ImGui but I think it's enough for most purposes.
Here I gave a try at the playback editor and the XR5 payload editor, you can do some nice stuff (and I really suck at UI...) : :

Also it supports "multi-viewports" allowing to drag windows outside the main one :