Project Space Transportation System 2016

[gattispilot]

Found this cutaway of the satellite.

and redid sts 7.

 

[gattispilot]

Working on the sts 9 spacelab:

CCTV views:

I think except for a few texture issue the exterior is done. Not sure how detailed the interior might be. I have the basic shape. I thought about added a crew guy so one could move around in it?

One thing that sts_payloads is missing in a read me. You can look at the cfg/ini and get which keys does what if there is animation.

 

[gattispilot]

I looked at more images of the attachment to the ribs. The bottom part look solid with a top of the ring to open/close. But the position seems to vary. On the front one the trunnion is near the edge of the rib while the second one is not. It is also in the middle.

A better view of the second leg

while the drawing has the supports the same:

the key thing is the angle of the support rods. They look to be 90degrees of the side?

It look like the lab maybe too long?

 

[gattispilot]

I found this in STS 50

good side view of the supports.

 

[gattispilot]

UGH!!! So looking at the photos it seems as the second attachment trunnion is further back than the front one. In the drawings the red lines are ribs and green line trunnions

 

[Marg]

Nice to see all these details appearing on Spacelab. there are some thoughts.
1) main cylindrical mesh seems quite low poly, maybe some smoothing can be made (at least not show shading edges) .
2) these three "rings" which "encircle" this main mesh are also a bit "smoother", with no sharp edges.
3) more of texturing: in front of "spacelab" (parts where markings are attached) insulation sheets had radial pattern.

 

[gattispilot]

So redid the main mesh and had to redo the pallet.

I think I made the main cylinder 32 edges and the same for rings.

 

[gattispilot]

Rounded the rings and main mesh

I needed to reduce the sts09 pallet. Hopefully the animation still works. Not really sure what each key did though

 

[Marg]

Oh, really impressive! Almost there. Just wanted to say that those rings (encircling main cylinder) were a bit more rounded "longitudinally" - I mean in shuttle's tail\head direction. they looked like just some thickening, or "bulging". They looked more like these encircling rings on the spacelab's tunnel (only more flattened).
And yes, I remember that I noticed cable connections (in photos), coming from shuttle's bay to a module (down and in the front of module).

 

[gattispilot]

Thanks. More like this?

This is the best I can do as far as the pallet location. Because the door hinge red and guide wire green. I can add generic cables to the front in the orange area. I may need to look at some more pallet images.

I will cut the black circle in the aft. It is supposed to be a window

 

[Marg]

"Thanks. More like this?" - Yes, now they are OK

 

[gattispilot]

GREAT. added some cables:

 

[gattispilot]

I added cables to the pallet and recoded it. So now the animation works. It does seem on the pallet key command are given at the bottom.

 

[gattispilot]

Here is a test setup for sts 09 On the interior not sure if to do it just textures or build it. Maybe both?

 

[gattispilot]

Started on the interior:

Aft hatch

front hatch area

front area
real view

 

[moonheart]

Here is a test setup for sts 09 On the interior not sure if to do it just textures or build it. Maybe both?

Tried it and works beautifully - many thanks - I like the functionality of the pallet. Look forward to you interior!

 

[gattispilot]

Thanks. All I did on the pallet is mimicked the animation. Since I changed the mesh the animation was messed up. So I just made a dll with the animation corrected.

 

[gattispilot]

A couple of panels done.

 

[gattispilot]

more panels.:

Not sure how much animation? It looks like on some of those yellow bars are platforms that can move up and down and rotate. I might just put some in different configurations. I think on the exterior. Have the scientific airlock hatch open and the tray extend.

 

[Marg]

Maybe textures on the outside could be "uniformed"? I mean they are a bit stretched (not of the same scale) in some places - tunnel and middle outer "circural" ring of the module have them stretched.