OHM XR5 Nasa - Final

[OrbitHangar]

Author: pennyblack

XR5 Nasa skin

Here is a top skin remake of the XR5 in the Nasa livery.

Update notes... Fixed texture errors and tweaked the skin to match the lowerskin and thrown in an extra, more bashed up NASA Enterprise skin.

Installation...
Installation of the skin won't over-write your currently used livery skinsso just extract into your orbiter directory.
A scenario which uses the skin is included in the XR5 Vanguard/skin demo scenarios folder in Orbiters Launchpad.
 
If you wish to use the skin as standard, then open the zip and take the skins from the
Textures/XR5Vanguard/Skins/XR5USNASA folder and place them into the Orbiter/Textures/XR5Vanguard folder, over-writing your current skins.
Complimentory texures...

Alternate XR5 textures
http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4881
Alternate Cargo Bay
http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4861
 
Visit Douglas E. Beachy's website and collect the XR vessel series here.
http://www.dougsorbiterpage.com


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[Axel]

There is a small bug in scenario file for skin initialisation, it must name "XR5NASA" but you wrote "XR5USNASA". Update it easy.
And the downside is in the original red color. A black colored or thermal plate downside would be better.

 

[PennyBlack]

I've updated and removed the bug. I hate glitches.
Hopefully it will initialise now

Please explain the downside... I'm lost.

 

[Axel]

Sorry for my english, i mean the lower side, the side under the ship is particulary red, near the landing gear ect. The same for the military textur addon. Maybe i need another textur addon, if you have made custom textures for it too at your harddrive, or another pre-release. A nice thermal plate look there like at the space shuttle would be beatifull and more realistic, then XR-Vessels have to resist very hot temperatures at reentry.

I did a blank install, then XR5 older version, then the actual version and your textur update with complimentory texures and alternate cargo bay.

 

[PennyBlack]

I'll be doing an underskin, lowerside soon. Actually, I'm a little all over the place while I get used to this texturing stuff so forgive the hap hazzard release. The lowerside will be done within a fortnight and will go with my top skins. I'll put it in the alternate tex pack to help reduce download size of the top skins.
It may appear wierd on how I go about things, but I'm hopeing it'll pan out in the end.
Thanks for the post Axel and I hope you enjoy the textures.

 

[Axel]

Yes i enjoy the textures and im looking forward to your next releases!
Its now mutch better than before, i find the original XR5 has very bad textures, cartoony style and low resolution.

But i hope that someday we will see a VC on it, a simple VC with non-working MFDs would be enough at first. Then i fly the crafts most without VC, but later in space i enjoy the view from VC's window. Without this possibility
a vessel loses mutch simulation stuff. Ok its not your part, its XR5 developers part. Or this guy who made some other nice Total Immersion VC's.
Because VC-less vessel is only an unmanned vessel for me.

 

[PennyBlack]

I've flown the XR's a fair number of times and found the original XR5 textures a frustration and being a well designed craft, they didn't do it justice.
My skins arn't going to be perfect, pixilation is severe, unlike the XR2. That was a dream in comparison but I got loads to knock out. I spent most of the day at work dreaming about them.

The under side will match, it's just I didn't want to bang out loads of little addons and wanted to pool them for easy search and download.
I don't know about the VC, but you sound like me... VC is prime and the most effective form of immersion.

 

[Cale]

Pennyblack, you do some really nice work on your XR-series skins:thumbup:

Any chance you'd take a request to do a CSA (Canadian Space Agency) skin for the XR5? I just finished one for the XR2, but I must admit to not having your painting skills.

Best,

Cale

 

[PennyBlack]

Cale... I'll give my best shot m8. Give me some time because it's on the list.

NOTE...
I plan to update this package at a later date and include another two other liveries I'm working on.

 

[PennyBlack]

For the frustration of re-downloading this addon, and others due to being incompitent. I've thrown in another bashed up Enterprise livery. Please read discription to see update notes.
I've got the Moonraker to update then I'm free to produce just topskins. :thumbup:

 

[Scav]

Not bad at all.

A suggestion, for authenticity's sake: NASA stopped using their "worm" logo (the word NASA on the port wing of the space shuttle) back in the early 1990's. They use the "meatball" logo now.

The new logo can easily be google-searched in Images (search for "NASA Meatball logo").

Thanks for the hard work!

 

[Eli13]

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that its cool.

 

[Scav]

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that its cool.

Agreed, and I do apologize if my comment earlier was taken as negative criticism; it certainly wasn't meant that way.

 

[PennyBlack]

Agreed, and I do apologize if my comment earlier was taken as negative criticism; it certainly wasn't meant that way.

Forgive the absence, I was in north Wales getting wet.
No reason to apologize, "comments" thread is a big clue to the freedom of speech m8. I tried to do the recent NASA logo, but couldn't get the circled logo to sit properly so went for the easy option. Sorry about that.

I may try again after my projects work. Thanks for the feedback. :tiphat: