I know there was a thread dedicated to this subject some years ago; but since we're not supposed to "necropost"; I'm creating this thread to try for a follow up.
So far the only runways that are flat (with the high res terrain) are at KSC and a couple in the Antelope Valley scenery... though intersecting runways at the same air/space ports are looking like mini roller coasters.
On a side note; I recently discovered Antelope Valley when I realized that the European mirror has more current and had more planets with high resolution textures than the USA "mirrors".
I love the scenic terrain there though. I also like Ascension Island scenery for Orbiter 2016 that someone put together; but the runway is also a little bumpy making a take-off in a fully loaded XR-5 seem a little traumatic as wheels disappear into the rolling mesh, and makes my takeoffs less photogenic when trying to put a little video together.
I realize that perhaps most people probably prefer vertical launches or living their orbiter lives in orbit around Jupiter... but... I love the idea of using the atmosphere to some advantage with lifting wings and air breathing scram jets.
I'm new to Orbiter (been obsessed for the last three weeks since I discovered it; and my wife now believes she's a widow); and am wanting to put together a little video showing a fully loaded XR-5 launch with Isp setting of 1; refueling with the FSS Alpha (great looking space station) in the ecliptic plane at 250km; refueling with the ESS (also cool looking) in a 10km Lunar high inclination orbit, offloading at Brighton Beach, then visiting three Apollo sites on the moon with meshes I stole from Project Apollo - NASSP.
Anyway, I can barely make it to FSS from Ascension Island; and doubt I ever could from KSC (much less Antelope Valley)--that's even with nailing my scram jet engines reaching temp limits just at their last sip of fuel at Mach 20+ and 60km.
Granted I'm sure there's people reading this who could achieve all this quite easily from the north pole, with a better skills and ascent and interception strategy; but I'm obviously not there yet. However, I just thought I'd check to see if someone might have some flattened runways in the tropics they wouldn't mind sharing as I can't find anything in the Orbit Hangar.
Granted, I realize that an ecliptic orbit for a refuel station isn't necessarily ideal for flying to the moon; but not sure if there is an ideal orbit that would stay in plane with the moon for a reasonable time? Plus I figure for interplanetary flights a refueling station would most likely be found in the ecliptic.
Speaking of which: There seems to be a LOT of cool addons for 2010... but hardly anything (in comparison) for 2016. Did everyone just give up making addons for the latest and greatest? Granted 2010 had 6 years of add-ons and we're almost in year 3... but... anyway... I'm rambling...
So far the only runways that are flat (with the high res terrain) are at KSC and a couple in the Antelope Valley scenery... though intersecting runways at the same air/space ports are looking like mini roller coasters.
On a side note; I recently discovered Antelope Valley when I realized that the European mirror has more current and had more planets with high resolution textures than the USA "mirrors".
I love the scenic terrain there though. I also like Ascension Island scenery for Orbiter 2016 that someone put together; but the runway is also a little bumpy making a take-off in a fully loaded XR-5 seem a little traumatic as wheels disappear into the rolling mesh, and makes my takeoffs less photogenic when trying to put a little video together.
I realize that perhaps most people probably prefer vertical launches or living their orbiter lives in orbit around Jupiter... but... I love the idea of using the atmosphere to some advantage with lifting wings and air breathing scram jets.
I'm new to Orbiter (been obsessed for the last three weeks since I discovered it; and my wife now believes she's a widow); and am wanting to put together a little video showing a fully loaded XR-5 launch with Isp setting of 1; refueling with the FSS Alpha (great looking space station) in the ecliptic plane at 250km; refueling with the ESS (also cool looking) in a 10km Lunar high inclination orbit, offloading at Brighton Beach, then visiting three Apollo sites on the moon with meshes I stole from Project Apollo - NASSP.
Anyway, I can barely make it to FSS from Ascension Island; and doubt I ever could from KSC (much less Antelope Valley)--that's even with nailing my scram jet engines reaching temp limits just at their last sip of fuel at Mach 20+ and 60km.
Granted I'm sure there's people reading this who could achieve all this quite easily from the north pole, with a better skills and ascent and interception strategy; but I'm obviously not there yet. However, I just thought I'd check to see if someone might have some flattened runways in the tropics they wouldn't mind sharing as I can't find anything in the Orbit Hangar.
Granted, I realize that an ecliptic orbit for a refuel station isn't necessarily ideal for flying to the moon; but not sure if there is an ideal orbit that would stay in plane with the moon for a reasonable time? Plus I figure for interplanetary flights a refueling station would most likely be found in the ecliptic.
Speaking of which: There seems to be a LOT of cool addons for 2010... but hardly anything (in comparison) for 2016. Did everyone just give up making addons for the latest and greatest? Granted 2010 had 6 years of add-ons and we're almost in year 3... but... anyway... I'm rambling...