Recent content by ZiggyStardust

and now for something alien... ahem... different! My personal favourite since 3 months, to the point that I began studying the language: this replaced Blue Danube during dockings: in case of Pirate encounters in Elite Dangerous: :lol: and some gasy country music during long trips :rofl...

Since r.45, and thru r.47, I can't see earth terrain anymore, just the basic blue-grayish globe... it looks like Uranus of sorts from orbit :lol: Some details: - no difference d3d9 vs embedded gfx - all plugins disabled, except d3d9 client when running orbiter_ng - base buildings and textures...

There's a 30m global land cover dataset here: http://www.globallandcover.com/GLC30Download/index.aspx Seems like it's 8.5GB in size, not that huge compared to the hires textures, and resolution is fine enough to show SLF strip as "artificial" surrounded by "wetland". That could be useful to...

The man who fell on earth I remember reading "The man who fell on earth" long before I knew a movie was made from the book. At some point there's a physical description of the alien Thomas Newton... I immediately thought "hey, that's David Bowie!". Have a safe trip back to Anthea. :tiphat:

Hello everyboy, thist is my first post in the new forum... just in time before they delete me for inactivity :P I agree, WW is much more suited for orbiter because of consistency at higher altitudes. Some time ago I asked to Tileproxy's author about missing WW support. However, he was of...