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Liber very kindly took a model I'd made of James Bond's car and did some magic with it to reduce its poly count. Now I've not the slightest idea how to put this thing up in the addons. So if anyone wants to have it, then I'm sure Liber will explain all the arcane stuff that I'm a total idiot with.

I wondered about making holographic promo badges, and thought I'd do a google to see whether a 3d model had to be 3d printed first. It seems not, all that one needs is a series of angled still images. It might be an idea for a cool Orbiter fan club badge. I'd buy one, if it were a reasonable...

Okay, I've read a couple of tutorials on textures, and one of the points made about creating a model in a 3d app, to import into Orbiter, was the scale. Normally, I work in millimetre units in C4d, is it best to switch to metres? I also take it that I should rotate the model ninety degrees...

I want to build my own space ships and I thought I'd ask some idiot questions, to help me get my ducks lined up. The main one is about textures. What does orbiter support in the way of bump, normal, specular, alpha etc? Do these have to be baked? Can it handle displacement maps, if only...

A little introduction. I've just discovered Orbiter, so at the moment I'm tearing my hair out as I read the manual. I found the app after talking on a 3d modeling message-board about a new planet plugin. At first I thought I'd just build a space ship but looking at some of the tutorials, I said...