Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Arrowstar]

Executive Spaceplane:thumbup:

I always love Greg's addons. Nice!

 

[Aeadar]

ESA XR5 at Jarvis.

 

[GoForPDI]

My first contribution! ISS with CTV after undocking in the foreground, moving away from the ISS, during an orbital sunset with the Moon in the background.

 

[Loru]

Docks in Jarvis SC

 

[N_Molson]

"Sitting on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away..."

(Otis Redding)

 

[Loru]

Unloading MTS Prototype 2

 

[Urwumpe]

You don't happen to have any photos of these hooks? I barely have any photos of the drive-trains themselves, let alone the hooks!

No photos, but in a video of the last Delta IV launch campaign, you can see the rollback preparations and how the hooks are rotated up for releasing the service structure.

 

[HAL9001]

You could take a sctreenshot, while looking the video (so you can make aphoto from a Video)

 

[N_Molson]

Unloading MTS Prototype 2

A "no smoking" sign would be welcome there ! :lol:

 

[Loru]

Stargazer - Communication and tracking ship have arrived

 

[Urwumpe]

Hmm...the main dish antenna would maybe need to be installed a bit higher, otherwise you would get problems at low elevations. Currently you could roughly just track the spacecraft maximal only 50% of the time between AOS and LOS - the rest of the time it would be too low. No problem for geostationary orbits, bad for everything else.

 

[Loru]

Rear dish on Stargazer is lifted few meters higher.
Also new fire trucks arrived.

 

[Urwumpe]

Looks better Can it now pick something up as soon as it is 5° above the horizon? (That is the rough experience derived angle at which ground clutter does not ruin reception)

Also are the fire trucks your own meshes? They look great would be fun making them also spray water at burning objects

 

[Loru]

Yep - meshes are mine but not finished yet (top tower with water cannon must be added and I have to finish texturing)

Basically it look like this now

 

[Urwumpe]

Already looks pretty interesting, despite the early stage.

I always wanted to have a airfield type fire truck, together with a nice post-modern fire department building... and then teach the trucks to be dispatched automatically by the fire department to extinguish the fires of a crashed landing.

 

[diogom]

ISS Russian EVA

ATV-1 arriving at ISS

Boris Volynov's troubled re-entry aboard Soyuz 5

 

[Loru]

MTS Vertigo after landing

on left side you can see F-35 chase plane

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BTW. All meshes were made in old dos version of 3D Studio R4. (1994). Yes. My meshing program is 17 years old.

 

[n72.75]

Wow, just wow...17 years...wow...

 

[marooder86]

BTW. All meshes were made in old dos version of 3D Studio R4. (1994). Yes. My meshing program is 17 years old.

:jawdrops: "Szacugen"
Why don't you use some up to date 3D modelling programs? With already having modeling skills, grasping the basics is not that hard and I belief most of them are much more user friendly and have some realy useful tools that 3D Studio R4 haven't

 

[Loru]

With all its limitations 3ds4 is very precise (excelent snap function, lofting shapes into objects). It's derived from CAD program (AutoCAD). Also I very much like it's clear user interface without tons of useless functions. That slows me down just to find the right one.

From add-on making perspective (mechanical meshes) I find only 2 flaws in it:
1 - Lack of live visual preview (I have to render thing to see what it look like - no even "filled object" view - just mesh).
2 - Fact that I have to emulate whole system to run it causes that every texture update is PITA (usually I make it with temporary textures and then I move into Max and work with materials).

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Firetrucks now have water cannons.