Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Donamy]

HDEV installed onto Columbus.

 

[Matias Saibene]

The beautiful (and classical) Delta GliderIV.

This add-on installed it today and I recommend it as a replacement for the original mesh of the space station similar to a wheel that is included in Orbiter.

With ENB Series of SolarLiner:thumbup:

 

[Yurik]

The beautiful (and classical) Delta GliderIV.

This add-on installed it today and I recommend it as a replacement for the original mesh of the space station similar to a wheel that is included in Orbiter.

With ENB Series of SolarLiner:thumbup:

Wat's your atmosphere configuration?

 

[Loru]

I think this atmosphere look is caused by ENB

 

[Matias Saibene]

Wat's your atmosphere configuration?

Looking and trying different add-ons found one that gave a more realistic atmosphere (more bluish than the original color) color.
The add-on I used was this:
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3211"]Atmosphere[/ame]

and the atmosphere is great from using ENB Series (requires D3D9)
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6414"]ENB Series for Orbiter D3D9[/ame]

Finally if you want a more realistic view from the ground (and air) using this supplement: Fluffy Cloud Generator
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6230"]Fluffy Cloud Generator[/ame]

and I changed the settings to generate realistic clouds. Adjunct the settings.
Finally for best sea waves I downloaded Hires Specular Ripple:
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4866"]Hires Specular Ripple[/ame]

Mediafire changes the sizes and resolutions of the images, so you can download the originals from these link:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/xjs6g7557pbb5/Realistic_atmosphere

Greetings.

 

[TeddyJohn]

My first screenshot


Now I just have to figure out how to post them properly like those above. Ted-

 

[Spacethingy]

My first screenshot


Now I just have to figure out how to post them properly like those above. Ted-

E.g. [img]http://www.orbiter-forum.com/gallery/data/500/Vanguard.jpg[/img]

Nice to see an XR5, haven't used that beast for a while...

 

[TeddyJohn]

Thanks Space. I'm an old 2006 die hard. I just couldn't let go of some older add-ons. After trying some of the new features with 2010, and upgrades from developers, I'll not let their efforts be ignored. Besides that, I love it.

 

[dgatsoulis]

Plane vizualization class at CSSC, day1. Ecliptic, Equatorial and an Earth-Moon transfer trajectory.

Earth and the Eq and Ecl planes.

A off-plane lunar transfer with minimum R.Inc. The plane of the Moon in grey and the trajectory in red.

Same wrt the ecliptic.

Plus the equatorial plane. 23.45° isn't such a small angle after all.

A top down view of all the planes.

 

[4throck]

A preview of what I'm working on:

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Plane vizualization class at CSSC, day1. Ecliptic, Equatorial and an Earth-Moon transfer trajectory.

Earth and the Eq and Ecl planes.

A off-plane lunar transfer with minimum R.Inc. The plane of the Moon in grey and the trajectory in red.

Same wrt the ecliptic.

Plus the equatorial plane. 23.45° isn't such a small angle after all.

A top down view of all the planes.

You sir, are a steely-eyed Add-on Developer. :thumbup:

I know I say this a lot, but that would be a terrific addition to the base Orbiter package. Cant you just imagine, being able to show this to a new Orbinaut before they take off for the moon/mars/ISS?

 

[thepenguin]

@dgat, how did you do that thing with the planes? That would be cool to integrate into a launch complex (maybe for autopilot programming?). Especially those orbit paths...

Mission control, anyone?

 

[martins]

Plane vizualization class at CSSC, day1. Ecliptic, Equatorial and an Earth-Moon transfer trajectory.

Nice! Bonus points for whoever can tell from the images in which order the planes were rendered ...

 

[Donamy]

green red blue ?

 

[martins]

green red blue ?

I'm getting a different result, plus there is also a grey plane there.

 

[Donamy]

I'm getting a different result, plus there is also a grey plane there.

That was a guess.

 

[Loru]

blue grey red green

 

[Quick_Nick]

Grey, grey, grey, grey.
Ah, colorblindness.
/exaggeration

 

[martins]

blue grey red green

Yes, that's what I got as well! (Good old z-buffer artefacts)

 

[dgatsoulis]

You sir, are a steely-eyed Add-on Developer. :thumbup:

I know I say this a lot, but that would be a terrific addition to the base Orbiter package. Cant you just imagine, being able to show this to a new Orbinaut before they take off for the moon/mars/ISS?

The goal is an "Orbiter-School" addon with lua scripted interactive tutorials.

*If* I ever get it done, I'd be more than happy to donate it if Martin wants to include it. But I am not so sure if it will get far; I am having a lot of trouble with the animations.

On a different scenario (Earth orbiting the sun), even a "simple" thing like animating Earth's path around the sun isn't so simple (at least to me). I end up with a perpetual winter instead of the axis of rotation staying at the same orientation, which would produce the seasons. And on top of that I need to make the Earth spin.

Things are somewhat simpler on scenarios where the Earth (different vessel) is in the center, but I really need to get the animations correct, because for now, I am using a different vessel for each pair of planes.

@dgat, how did you do that thing with the planes? That would be cool to integrate into a launch complex (maybe for autopilot programming?). Especially those orbit paths...
Mission control, anyone?

Vessels with textured spheres and simple square-2sided-transparent mesh-groups. What you can't see in the pic is the animations. (Earth rotates @1 rps along the equator and the Moon rotates around the Earth -tidally locked- @27.32 rps, with 5° tilt wrt to the ecliptic)

blue grey red green

:thumbup: