Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[LadyCroussette]

That tree above looks perfect. How many polygons ?

They are just two very thin cubes placed in a cross. So like 24 tris total (or 12 polys). And, it could be reduced by half if they were replaced by four planes instead.

 

[Jordan]

We need to learn how to meshes visible behind transparent meshes! Then we would have trees!
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Meshes with a transparent texture must be rendered last, otherwise the meshes rendered afterward will also be transparent.

 

[francisdrake]

Tenacity maneuvers near the ISS​

 

[LadyCroussette]

A shot of Mars (far left) next to the Earth, as seen from lunar orbit.

 

[jarmonik]

We need to learn how to meshes visible behind transparent meshes! Then we would have trees!
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That should work fine in Open Orbiter after adding a mesh group flag 0x20 to the tree. It should enable Order Independent Transparency. This works only in a one bit basis. (i.e. either fully transparent or opaque).

 

[LadyCroussette]

aeiou

 

[LadyCroussette]

Finally decided it was time to make Pioneer One into a VesselBuilder vessel so I could finally use my interplanetary spaceship. Here it is docked to the CSS in a test scenario to test the crew docking port.


Now I just have to do the four pods.

 

[francisdrake]

To protect its crew from Solar radiation, the mining vessel Konstantin is hiding in the shadow behind an asteroid. Solar panels extend on a mast over the horizon to capture the sunlight. The ship is spinning at 3 rpm to provide Earth-like gravity in the habitats at the end of the booms. Solar miners - currently stored in the lower part of the ship - will be deployed to melt and vaporize the regolith by focusing sunlight through their reflective mirrors.

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The scene is inspired by the novel 'Delta-V' by Daniel Suarez. If you are interested in a near-future space thriller, this book is worth reading.

 

[gamer19]

wow
we definitely need new thread "the story behind screenshot"
well done francis

 

[francisdrake]

We definitely need new thread "the story behind screenshot

Thanks for the praise! I will open a thread on the Delta-V novel and its spaceships.

 

[Max-Q]

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To protect its crew from Solar radiation, the mining vessel Konstantin is hiding in the shadow behind an asteroid. Solar panels extend on a mast over the horizon to capture the sunlight. The ship is spinning at 3 rpm to provide Earth-like gravity in the habitats at the end of the booms. Solar miners - currently stored in the lower part of the ship - will be deployed to melt and vaporize the regolith by focusing sunlight through their reflective mirrors.

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The scene is inspired by the novel 'Delta-V' by Daniel Suarez. If you are interested in a near-future space thriller, this book is worth reading.

Is that actually Ryugu, or did you use a different asteroid?

 

[francisdrake]

Is that actually Ryugu, or did you use a different asteroid?

I scaled-up the Martian moon Deimos and put it into deep space. Against the Suns' backlight, it is hard to see the default surface texture.

I looked up Orbit Hangar, but it seems nobody yet modelled Ryugu. There are high-res surface photos on the Jaxa website. I would be glad if someone takes the challenge to make a proper Ryugu.

 

[Max-Q]

I have a config file for it with correct orbital elements, but a generic mesh.

 

[dgatsoulis]

I scaled-up the Martian moon Deimos and put it into deep space. Against the Suns' backlight, it is hard to see the default surface texture.

I looked up Orbit Hangar, but it seems nobody yet modelled Ryugu. There are high-res surface photos on the Jaxa website. I would be glad if someone takes the challenge to make a proper Ryugu.

NASA's solar system treks has a 3d model in a few different resolutions:


It is in obj format, but it's not textured:


Same link also has the Hayabusa2 global DEM (Digital Elevation Model). One can make "proper" surface elevation tiles for Ryugu with that.

 

[francisdrake]

The Konstantin with Ryugu in the distance

Thanks for the links! Above is a first shot, using the asteroids 3D mesh,
and the surface texture from the JAXA website.

 

[jedidia]

Speaking of NEOs, is there a comprehensive list of all the known ones somewhere? Somehow you'd think that "list of near earth objects" would yield an instant result on google, but all I can find are lists of approaches rather than just an overview of the objects and their orbits.

 

[Urwumpe]

Here you are helped:

IAU Minor Planet Center

We are the official body that deals with astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.

www.minorplanetcenter.net

 

[jedidia]

Neat, thanks!

 

[LadyCroussette]

Soyuz docking to the ISS.

 

[misha.physics]