Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[CurlSnout]

Testing some models and trying to optimize video/graphics parameters in Orbiter 2024. This is my generic satellite (loosely based on the Project Vanguard plastic model kit produced by the HAWK company in 1958).

 

[johnnymanly]

 

[Matias Saibene]

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Long live WINE!

 

[misha.physics]

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What the vessel is this?

 

[johnnymanly]

What the vessel is this?

It's a work in progress.

 

[misha.physics]

Looks very beautiful and smooth.

 

[misha.physics]

Remind me please what the vessel it is:



ADDED: I found out, that's the Reusable Crew Vehicle.

 

[Nikogori]

Orbiter 2024 test flight to Mars (using IMFD5.7)

List of IMFD functions used in this mission:

• Target Intercept
• Surface Launch
• Orbit Eject
• Map program
• Base Approach

I didn't encounter any problems or bugs.

 

[misha.physics]

I didn't know that the DrawOrbits module displays the orbits of celestial bodies.

@Nikogori, have you thought about writing a short (or detailed) tutorial about your flight using IMFD?

 

[Nikogori]

@Nikogori, have you thought about writing a short (or detailed) tutorial about your flight using IMFD?

A few years ago I wrote IMFD tutorial for Japanese orbinauts. It's all written in Japanese, of course.

My tutorial is mostly based on IMFD Full Manual by @markl316 and David Courtney's YouTube videos.

 

[LadyCroussette]

Screenshots from the first two launches of my new space station: Sailiniq! (Taken from my livestream, so the quality isn't all great)

The launch of Sailiniq aboard the SLS!

Space Shuttle Olympic is visible on LC-39A while the SLS takes off from LC-39B.

And Sailiniq is in orbit!

About a month later (well a few minutes IRL), Olympic takes off for mission SSM-89, carrying abord the second module of Sailiniq, and a PMA Adapter.

The payload bay doors are opened.

Olympic has rendez-vous Sailiniq in orbit.

Module #2 docked!

And Olympic is docked after docking the PMA Adapter first!

And, of course, the return to the Kennedy Space Center at the end of the mission.

 

[LadyCroussette]

Another shuttle flight, this time SSM-90 with Brunswicker, bringing a third module to the newly launched Sailiniq Space Station!

At the station, the first thing I did is undock the core module from the rest. Why? Cuz I realised only after I finished the previous mission that I didn't dock the core module on the right docking port of the second module. So, I'm fixing that here.

And there you go! The node is now in the middle, as it should be!

And the new module, with an integrated DG port, is docked!

The station, with the solar panels of the new module deployed. Sailiniq is now ready to welcome its first expedition!

And now, the return home.


"Wheel stop Houston."
"Copy wheel stop, welcome home Brunswicker!"

 

[Gondos]

Some tests with ImGui :

With a darker style :

What do you think?

 

[Urwumpe]

What do you think?

Looks great! Especially the dark theme. How about making menu extensions by plugins or vessels?

 

[LadyCroussette]

Made a shuttle-like skin for the Deltaglider using kitbashed sections of Wolf's Shuttle Fleet Photoreal textures, and man does it look hot!


That thing feels so much more real looking like that!

Oh, and speaking of, here is the DG docked to Sailiniq for Expedition 1

 

[Gondos]

Looks great! Especially the dark theme. How about making menu extensions by plugins or vessels?

For Launchpad configuration dialogs, that's not an option yet because it would require changing the whole Launchpad mechanism.
For when the simulation is started, there's a new oapiOpenDialog for addons to use but it makes me a bit uneasy since it could be prone to ABI/API breakage if we update the version of ImGui. I don't know how extensively the current oapiOpenDialog function is used in addons and if it could be a major issue.

 

[Urwumpe]

For Launchpad configuration dialogs, that's not an option yet because it would require changing the whole Launchpad mechanism.
For when the simulation is started, there's a new oapiOpenDialog for addons to use but it makes me a bit uneasy since it could be prone to ABI/API breakage if we update the version of ImGui. I don't know how extensively the current oapiOpenDialog function is used in addons and if it could be a major issue.

Well, many of the few C++ developers use them and some many more would likely make use of them, if its much easier than today. After all, its also about the scenario editor.

I think an abstraction layer between Orbiter API and the actual UI would be the best way to go, since we could also switch the UI implementation during future development then without breaking the add-ons. Also this could be including in a Lua binding then. Maybe some more people would support the scenario editor or the launch pad, if it could be just edited in Lua, than C++ and ye olde Windows User32.dll.

 

[Gondos]

Well, many of the few C++ developers use them and some many more would likely make use of them, if its much easier than today. After all, its also about the scenario editor.

I think an abstraction layer between Orbiter API and the actual UI would be the best way to go, since we could also switch the UI implementation during future development then without breaking the add-ons. Also this could be including in a Lua binding then. Maybe some more people would support the scenario editor or the launch pad, if it could be just edited in Lua, than C++ and ye olde Windows User32.dll.

The scenario editor is part of the core so it's not really an issue. The abstraction layer would be the solution but I'm afraid it would also be a major undertaking.
Since it's a screenshot thread, here is the scenario editor from my linux branch, with custom tabs provided by the vessel module :

 

[LadyCroussette]

Back to Sailiniq with the first set of solar arrays! They are installed at a temporary location until the truss segment is complete.



Look at this!

I love station building

 

[misha.physics]

Sailiniq

Is this a space station you're developing now?