Recent content by 80mileshigh

Thanks for the kind words folks and thanks to @predattak for troubleshooting earlier in the year. I did intend to take time off Orbiter after Deepstar 3.1 was released but not all of 2022. But then I went and had my first child :) I hope to get back into the sim and addon development at some...

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Ok, here's an attached zip (just removed the txt file extension) with the UCSO EVA. It's set up to extract to a Deepstar 3.1 installation. Like I said, this is a bit of a hack. You can select and spawn an EVA vessel through the cargo menu on the VC HUD. You can't recapture the EVA however -...

It's a bit of a hack, but we can implement an EVA feature via UCSO and General Vehicle. Just like the rover cargo that's included, an EVA cargo could unpack as a GV astronaut when released. Here's a proof of concept using the publicly available NASA z2 suit model: I'll get this to a passable...

Version 3.1 is released!: https://www.orbithangar.com/showAddon.php?id=aaa0757c-589a-49dd-9d5c-f984b9c1f0ae I'm quite proud of this collaboration. Abdullah has done a lot of work on code for this release. Thanks too, to all the community members who helped. Here's the change list from the...

Deepstar 3.1 by 80mileshigh and Abdullah Radwan. Deepstar represents a vision of planetary exploration for Orbiter 2016 with a near-tech aesthetic. This release introduces active virtual cockpits for Deepstar, its non-atmospheric landers, and its atmospheric lifting bodies...

Sorry - I just meant this as a proof of concept to show what a basic, but current ISS config mesh, could be like. It's not a public add-on. I think the authors of current ISS models are better placed to make something accurate, but less complex. This is pretty rough. Or it might be a worthwhile...

Lighting up the dark ...

I encountered the same with scenery download links while writing an installation guide: a security warning in Chrome when attempting to download the new Titan.cfg from Mirror1. Mirrors 2 and 3 are gone and Mirror 4 doesn't have the new Mars or Titan textures. There is also no torrent file for...

Following from Dave S' request to retire base.cfg in OpenOrbiter I have a potential feature request for the handling of night textures in the D3D9Client. At present, listing a texture in config\base.cfg, and again against the relevant mesh in the surface base's config file, will display a night...

Any changes which eliminate additional installation instructions for add-ons would be good. But bear in mind base.cfg editing is required for handling night textures which OWNMATERIAL can not at present. I wonder if D3D9 could handle texture_n.dds, just like texture_norm.dds etc? I'll raise it.

Abdullah is referring to the 'GeneralVehicle' module by Fred: https://www.orbithangar.com/showAddon.php?id=eb4a7e79-9a2e-4600-8296-ee84ff97b9bf I would definitely make use of sound options for this module. :)

Many years ago we had a world map on which Orbiter users could drop a pin to mark their location. I can't remember if this was connected to the M6 forum but a lot of us did it at the time. I thought it was a nice way to visualise the community. Would it be possible to create a map feature here...

One of several projects I've got on hold while I work on Deepstar3.1 with Abdullah. This is a fictional but current-tech small space station based on commercial designs which have been shown in the last couple of years. I figured there's a time and a place for a simple rendezvous target that...

For my personal installation I actually modified the stock Project Alpha mesh last year to look something like the current ISS configuration. Lots of imperfections I'm sure but closer than having the power platform which makes the stock ISS a fantasy mesh now (which is also totally appropriate...