Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[MaverickSawyer]

 

[sitha241]

Weeee that is neat!
Thank you!

 

[Interceptor]

That"s Coooool!,martins!:jawdrops:

 

[jarmonik]

I implemented a high resolution rings using 2048x1, 4096x1 or 8192x1 textures depending about a hardware capabilities. Pretty good results with 65kb of memory. Will be available in R9

 

[asbjos]

I implemented a high resolution rings using 2048x1, 4096x1 or 8192x1 textures depending about a hardware capabilities. Pretty good results with 65kb of memory. Will be available in R9

And you are running that in full HD with 1040 FPS? Impressive!

 

[Star Voyager]

STS-140 deploying TDRS K, January 30, 2013.

 

[Hlynkacg]

One step closer to being able to fly the whole mission.

 

[Tacolev]

Playing around a bit with IMS now that my machine is running again, designs both feature Hlynkacg's transhab.


Mars vehicle loosely inspired by one of Ernst Stuhlinger's designs


Fusion rocket "threading the needle" between Saturn and the innermost rings on a polar transfer orbit.

 

[Pipcard]

It's basically doing an old mission profile with a new launch vehicle.

(edit: referring to Hlynkacg's post below)

 

[Hlynkacg]

More progress...

The first succesful test flight of my as yet unnamed Apollo project.

View image in gallery​

Combined spacecraft, CSM, SLA, and LES on the pad, with a [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5846"]Spider Lunar Lander *Beta v2.3*[/ame] is attached as payload. For the moment I'm forced to use Glider's excellent [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5442"]SpaceX Launch Vehicles[/ame] as a stand in for the Saturn V.

LIFTOFF!!!

First stage and Launch Escape System seperation. LES Jettison is not yet animated, it's mesh and and more importantly it's mass are simply deleted once specified altitude/velocity parameters have been met.

Second stage burnout, 300 km parking orbit established.

Trans-Lunar Injection.

CSM / LV seperation, the Spider is now clearly visible.

Transposition and docking

LM extraction

Mid-course correction burn

Aproaching Luna

Lunar orbit injection

Combined spacecraft safely established in 180 km lunar parking orbit. Mission test objectives completed.



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Playing around a bit with IMS now that my machine is running again, designs both feature Hlynkacg's transhab.


Mars vehicle loosely inspired by one of Ernst Stuhlinger's designs


Fusion rocket "threading the needle" between Saturn and the innermost rings on a polar transfer orbit.

I recognize some of those components. :thumbup:

 

[martins]

A few more appetizers:

 

[Pipcard]

A few more appetizers:

It just keeps getting better and better!

 

[Ripley]

Beautiful screens, but Orlando International looks like it could still improve a bit...

 

[fausto]

Wonderful!!
I hope Multisage2 and Spacecraft3 to works correctly in OrbiterNextGen!

 

[Donamy]

Beautiful screens, but Orlando International looks like it could still improve a bit...

I wouldn't look at the airport so much, but the surrounding terrain. The runway could always be improved by a runway mesh.

 

[martins]

Beautiful screens, but Orlando International looks like it could still improve a bit...

I'll leave that to the addon developers. A few high resolution texture sources and some nifty meshes should do the trick. :thumbup: These pictures are just to show that the framework will be available.

For the moment, I am planning to cap the planet texture resolution at level 18. This would correspond to level 19 in Orbiter 2010 (since the texture patch size has increased from 256x256 to 512x512). The Orlando International textures shown in the image are at level 15, so there is plenty of room for improvement for anybody interested in upgrading it.

The images are mainly meant to show that the current mechanism of defining highres surface tiles associated with bases will no longer be required, because the quadtree planet render engine will support sufficiently high resolutions natively.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

A few more appetizers:

Thats interesting :hmm:.

Is it running on D3D7, or a newer Directx framework?

 

[DaveS]

Any plans to increase the cloud texture resolution? I think that would be a worthwhile endeavor as it would improve the views from orbit alot. Currently even the most high-res cloud textures (level 8) makes the clouds look like undefined splotches in orbit.

 

[martins]

Thats interesting :hmm:.

Is it running on D3D7, or a newer Directx framework?

Currently only on the inline client, but I hope graphics client developers will be able to implement the new engine quickly, once I managed to port it to the D3D7 client and upload a new beta.

Any plans to increase the cloud texture resolution? I think that would be a worthwhile endeavor as it would improve the views from orbit alot. Currently even the most high-res cloud textures (level 8) makes the clouds look like undefined splotches in orbit.

Yes, I should eventually get around to doing that too.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Currently only on the inline client, but I hope graphics client developers will be able to implement the new engine quickly, once I managed to port it to the D3D7 client and upload a new beta.

I know we're really not supposed to ask, but is there a rough timeframe? Im actually a bit concerned about updating to new versions & it would be nice to prepare for any changes in advance. Nice work though!