Request Basic Hangar Model for Surface Bases

[Woo482]

What I need is some hangars that you can park your ship in I need some for a Small surface base I am building they should be able to fit a XR-2 in them

 

[astrosammy]

You could take the small hangars from wehaveaproblem's Wideawake International. But that would require that users of our base first need to download Wideawake International first.

 

[Woo482]

I dont think I will use them unless Wehaveaproblem allowed me to use the hangars and all so let me package them in my addon.

 

[wehaveaproblem]

You can use them if you like, boys, no problem. Although the small ones come in threes.

If you like I can send you a single hangar mesh file and texture. PM me.

 

[Woo482]

ok then can you help me with the lights ? I don't know how to set them up

 

[wehaveaproblem]

I'm off to bed now, but send me a PM with your email and your questions and I'll reply tomo and send you some meshes.

 

[Woo482]

ok dont send me the meshes with email just upload them here http://rapidshare.com/

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Here ya go, I thought it would be easier to upload them to OH for anybody else that might want them.

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3692"]AIA Generic Hangars download link[/ame]

Let me know if there are any problems or if you have any further questions.

 

[Woo482]

ok thanks should I PM you with my Questions ?

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Or post them here, whatever is easier. Just be as specific as you can.

 

[Woo482]

Ok then I need to know what I should put in the boxes that I have marked with the red Rectangle

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Good question, if I'm honest I never really gave much effort over to learning how PAPI and VASI lights actually function, only what they are supposed to do. Someone else actually gave me the numbers for the lights at Ascension, and my runways only use PAPI, not VASI.

As far as I understand it, the first 2 numbers represent how the AOA will affect when the lights change colour, the last number is the distance of the lights from the end of the runway.

So for eg, the main landing runway at Ascension is PAPI 5 3 530

 

[Woo482]

ok how do I change wear your hangers look for there textures ? at the moment I am trying to keep all the models I am using in the base in 1 folder but because of that the hangars are white
EDIT1: Have you got any idea of a good place to put the base ? at the moment its about 250KM away from KSC

 

[wehaveaproblem]

That one is easy.

Open the mesh file and scroll all the way to the bottom. You will see the last 2 lines list where the textures can be found, simply change the path to your own folder.

eg: WooFolder/AIAhangars.dds

 

[Woo482]

well this is the surface base at the moment

 

[wehaveaproblem]

nice one, although those buildings look very close to the runway at the end there.

Where is the base going to be? And are you planning to make custom surface tiles too?

 

[Woo482]

I don't know about surface tiles and I am still not sure on the location at the moment its very close to KSC but I put it there so I could fly to it to see if the runway was long enough

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Is there not a way to calculate the runway length in SB wizard? I'm sure there is a measuring tool of some kind. Anything over about 4km should do you for general use.

For locations, I'd consider somehere equatorial, or near to as this is good for insertion. I was gonna build my base in England originally, until I realise it wasn't a great spot for launches. So I used the next best thing... a UK foreign territory.

 

[Woo482]

ok and the runway at the moment is about 3.75KM long so I will change it soon
EDIT1: do you thing Cayman Islands is a good location for the base ?
EDIT2: I found out it is not a good location for the base the runway is longer than the island

 

[astrosammy]

This looks interesting for a base: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson_Island_(Pitcairn_Islands) .A 8km runway would fit perfectly onto it.