Idea Inside cockpit Reentry effects

[Interceptor]

Hey it would be nice to have an addon that you could have cockpit reentry effects, for ships such as DeltGlider,IVXR1,XR2,XR5 and so on.just a suggestion. Thanks

 

[cr1]

I support this suggestion; that thought also occured to me while I was reentering DeltaGlider in virtual cockpit

 

[Woo482]

I don't think you can make a addon to do that

 

[cr1]

Yea, I think it would have more to do with the game engine itself... Or, otherwise as a cheat, put a ghost vessel 1 meter in front of your vessel whenever you're in the VC, so that you can see reentry flames inside the VC...
(don't take my comments too seriously )

 

[Woo482]

you cannot do that, for example what happens if you go close to the Delta Glider IV while you are in a UMMU? you can start to see through it so a Ghost vessel would not work
(I think this might fix the View clipping http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3530)

 

[pete.dakota]

you cannot do that, for example what happens if you go close to the Delta Glider IV while you are in a UMMU? you can start to see through it so a Ghost vessel would not work

Isn't there a generic improvements addon that fixes this?

 

[Woo482]

yes I just remembered look at my edit

 

[Urwumpe]

I don't think you can make a addon to do that

I think you can. Just add a mesh with a single semitransparent texture in VC mode.

You could maybe even make it dynamic by painting the texture (64x64 could already be enough) as pseudorandom plasma function.

 

[Interceptor]

That would be awsome if it could be done. thanks guys and keep us posted.

 

[Kaito]

Yeah, I would love to see that

 

[Artlav]

Cockpit reentry effects as in that plasma stuff seen outside the shuttle windows during the entry?

 

[Woo482]

yes the plasma that you can see out side the shuttle when its re-entering

 

[Mission_CDR]

and also a redish glow in the VC maybe.

 

[computerex]

Orbiter Reentry Stream allows you to define multiple particle streams that are displayed on user specified heat flux...Located at orbithangar in "computerex add-on pack"

 

[Interceptor]

I have your Orbiter Stream addon Computerex and I must say it's awsome. but you don't see any inside reentry cockpit effects for the DeltaGlider and such ships unless I am missing something. If so can you please make a working example for DeltagliderIV cfg and Shuttle. Thanks

 

[computerex]

The standard configuration files don't place the streams directly in front of the cockpit, I believe (McWgogs had the "pleasure" of creating them).

Try this one for Atlantis:

[SETTINGS]
pcount=8

;front plasma
P_1_srcsize=23
P_1_srcrate=60
P_1_v0=0
P_1_srcspread=0
P_1_lifetime=0.7
P_1_growthrate=-3
P_1_atmslowdown=10
P_1_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_1_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_1_lmin=0
P_1_lmax=1
P_1_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_1_amin=-0.1
P_1_amax=0.1
P_1_tex=plasmafaint
P_1_pos=(0,-2,12)

;front cockpit effects
P_2_srcsize=30
P_2_srcrate=7.7
P_2_v0=0
P_2_srcspread=0
P_2_lifetime=0.3
P_2_growthrate=-50
P_2_atmslowdown=10
P_2_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_2_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_2_lmin=0
P_2_lmax=1
P_2_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_2_amin=-0.1
P_2_amax=0.1
P_2_tex=plasmafaint
P_2_pos=(0,2,17)

P_3_srcsize=28
P_3_srcrate=11
P_3_v0=0
P_3_srcspread=0
P_3_lifetime=0.3
P_3_growthrate=-50
P_3_atmslowdown=10
P_3_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_3_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_3_lmin=0
P_3_lmax=1
P_3_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_3_amin=-0.1
P_3_amax=0.1
P_3_tex=plasmafaint
P_3_pos=(0,2,15)

;wings
P_4_srcsize=23
P_4_srcrate=40
P_4_v0=0
P_4_srcspread=0
P_4_lifetime=0.4
P_4_growthrate=-3
P_4_atmslowdown=10
P_4_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_4_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_4_lmin=0
P_4_lmax=1
P_4_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_4_amin=-0.1
P_4_amax=0.1
P_4_tex=plasmafaint
P_4_pos=(-7,-3,0)

P_5_srcsize=23
P_5_srcrate=40
P_5_v0=0
P_5_srcspread=0
P_5_lifetime=0.4
P_5_growthrate=-3
P_5_atmslowdown=10
P_5_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_5_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_5_lmin=0
P_5_lmax=1
P_5_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_5_amin=-0.1
P_5_amax=0.1
P_5_tex=plasmafaint
P_5_pos=(7,-3,0)


;side cockpit efects

P_6_srcsize=20
P_6_srcrate=11
P_6_v0=0
P_6_srcspread=0
P_6_lifetime=0.3
P_6_growthrate=-3
P_6_atmslowdown=10
P_6_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_6_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_6_lmin=0
P_6_lmax=1
P_6_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_6_amin=-0.1
P_6_amax=0.1
P_6_tex=plasmafaint
P_6_pos=(-7,2,14)

P_7_srcsize=20
P_7_srcrate=11
P_7_v0=0
P_7_srcspread=0
P_7_lifetime=0.3
P_7_growthrate=-3
P_7_atmslowdown=10
P_7_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_7_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_7_lmin=0
P_7_lmax=1
P_7_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_7_amin=-0.1
P_7_amax=0.1
P_7_tex=plasmafaint
P_7_pos=(7,2,14)

;back plasma

P_8_srcsize=20
P_8_srcrate=20
P_8_v0=0
P_8_srcspread=0
P_8_lifetime=0.7
P_8_growthrate=-3
P_8_atmslowdown=10
P_8_LTYPE=EMISSIVE
P_8_LEVELMAP=LVL_SQRT
P_8_lmin=0
P_8_lmax=1
P_8_ATMSMAP=ATM_PLOG
P_8_amin=-0.1
P_8_amax=0.1
P_8_tex=plasmafaint
P_8_pos=(0,-2,-2)

heatFlux=28000000
dir = (0,0,1)

 

[Interceptor]

Will that addon work inside the DeltaGliders cockpit or is it strictly for the atlantis Thanks