Textures Baikonur Surface Tiles v1.0

[McWgogs]

Hi there.
Here's some Baikonur surface tiles, extracted are 17MB total.
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4247"]Baikonur Surface Tiles v1.0[/ame]
Covers quite a large area, should provide nice views for the first few minutes of Soyuz flights of other Russian stuff.
seriously, why wasn't this done before
I'm asking developers to collaborate on this to create a generic base with hangars and pads and everything, to create a must-have base, and have a backbone for any Baikonur oriented addons. So stuff looks nice.

C3PO has added and aligned a few things on these, he might put his links later in the thread.

Screens.

 

[Urwumpe]

AFAIR, we had such a project with tiles already, but it drowned when the Francophones released their Baikonur stuff.

 

[C3PO]

AFAIR, we had such a project with tiles already, but it drowned when the Francophones released their Baikonur stuff.

That's precisely the stuff I've been trying to align with these new tiles.

 

[Yoda]

Great add-on ! Thanks.
The only thing I noticed is that under the "surface tiles" in the Baikonur.cfg I had to REPLACE the information instead of add-on to the exsisting information as described in the "read-me" file.
If I just added it I would get a CTD.

Otherwise, Great addition !

 

[4throck]

Don't forget [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2900"]Baikonur Cosmodrome Environment 1.0[/ame] . I seems to be detailed and might save some work.

If the goal is to have one generic base, I'd go for accurate pad placement as the first step. This means making sure that the pads are at least at the coordinates indicated by Google (as it is what most people use anyway). I can work on that time permitting, following the list from Wikipedia:

List of launchpads

• Pad 1/5 (Gagarin's Start): Soyuz-Soyuz, Soyuz-Progress, Soyuz-Ikar - 45°55′12″N 63°20′31″E / 45.920°N 63.342°E / 45.920; 63.342
• Pad 31/6: Soyuz-Cosmos, Soyuz-Fregat - 45°59′46″N 63°33′50″E / 45.996°N 63.564°E / 45.996; 63.564
• Pad 41/15: Cosmos 3 (1964-1968) - 45°58′34″N 63°40′08″E / 45.976°N 63.669°E / 45.976; 63.669
• Pad 45/1: Zenit-2, Zenit-2M, Zenit-3M - 45°56′35″N 63°39′11″E / 45.943°N 63.653°E / 45.943; 63.653
• Pad 45/2 (Destroyed in 1990 explosion): Zenit 2 - 45°56′24″N 63°39′18″E / 45.940°N 63.655°E / 45.940; 63.655
• Pad 81/23 (81L): Proton-K - 46°04′26″N 62°58′41″E / 46.074°N 62.978°E / 46.074; 62.978
• Pad 81/24 (81P): Proton-M - 46°04′16″N 62°59′06″E / 46.071°N 62.985°E / 46.071; 62.985
• Pad 90/19 (90L) (Inactive >1989): Tsyklon-2 - 46°04′52″N 62°55′55″E / 46.081°N 62.932°E / 46.081; 62.932
• Pad 90/20 (90R): Tsyklon-2 - 46°04′48″N 62°56′06″E / 46.080°N 62.935°E / 46.080; 62.935
• Pad 109/95: Dnepr - 45°57′04″N 63°29′49″E / 45.951°N 63.497°E / 45.951; 63.497
• Pad 110/37 (110L) (inactive after 1988): N-1, Energia-Buran - 45°57′54″N 63°18′18″E / 45.965°N 63.305°E / 45.965; 63.305
• Pad 110/38 (110R): N-1 (inactive after 1969)- 45°57′43″N 63°18′36″E / 45.962°N 63.310°E / 45.962; 63.310
• Pad 175/59: Rokot (1991-1994) - 46°03′07″N 62°59′10″E / 46.052°N 62.986°E / 46.052; 62.986
• Pad 200/39 (200L): Proton-M/Proton-K - 46°02′24″N 63°01′55″E / 46.040°N 63.032°E / 46.040; 63.032
• Pad 200/40 (200R): Proton-K (inactive after 1991) - 46°02′10″N 63°02′17″E / 46.036°N 63.038°E / 46.036; 63.038
• Pad 250 (inactive after 1987): Energia - 46°00′29″N 63°18′18″E / 46.008°N 63.305°E

Let me know if someone has already has tried it.




Update:

I've checked the tiles against the coordinates and they are indeed very accurate. I'm attaching my test files (View attachment 3506), with some pads as individual bases for a quick check. They might be useful for placement testing.