Project Amrstrong Lunar Base

[anemazoso]

Ok fellow orbinauts, I have decided to build a lunar base although I have to admit I thought very seriously of putting this base on Rhea.

The base is set in a fictional crater and will eventually have all the necessary facilities I thought I would post some pics and ask for any suggestions anyone might have. This base is something that could be built within the next 100 yrs. Here are some early pics of the base.

 

[willy88]

But, is it UCGO compatible?

 

[anemazoso]

But, is it UCGO compatible?

Whats "UCGO"?

 

[fort]

UCO or UCGO

http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=9963#at

 

[garyw]

Impressive. I love the hangar under the regolith.

As for UCGO, I think it's a bit hard to test for compatibility as it isn't even out and if I understand how Dan is doing this then everything should be compatible as it is just meshes and config files.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Nice looking! :tiphat:
What did you use to make the crater?

 

[the.punk]

I like the crater that the base is built into the crater.
Looks very nice.

 

[agentgonzo]

What did you use to make the crater?

C4 ;-)

 

[anemazoso]

The crater is made of three parts: 1) A texture applied as a surface tile 2) A crater mesh that I made in Anim8or. 3) The same texture used as a surface tile is used on the mesh itself. The texture is from an MRO image of Mars that I cropped and turned to black/white. I tried several textures for this including a texture of the moons surface and was not very happy with them. The current texture you see is something I settled for, not sure if I like it.

As for this UCGO stuff. It's just a base, there will be no "vessel" objects except for the doors of the hangars and they will be SC3 unless someone wants to program a ummu compatible dock.

Thanks for the nice comments all

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Update:

Just wanted to post a pic of some work I did on the base today. Some of the things I still intend to add are:

-Large landing area for upcoming Arrow and other large craft.
-Regolith berms along sides of taxiways and roads.
-nuke plant (yes there is a solar panel field but that's a back-up).
-Comms dishes.

Again, please feel free to suggest any idea's.

 

[Andy44]

Very cool.

Are you comfortable having landing pads so close to a structure? Are there more remote pads for nuclear-powered vessels?

And one more: how does all this stuff get carried to the moon?

 

[anemazoso]

Very cool.

Are you comfortable having landing pads so close to a structure? Are there more remote pads for nuclear-powered vessels?

And one more: how does all this stuff get carried to the moon?

The large pad will be some distance away from the structures plus they are already rad-hardened........ they are on the moon

As for the structures being "carried"? The materials used to construct this base (concrete, metals and glass) were mined and processed on the moon from materials on the moon.

 

[Ark]

I have an idea: How about a tunnel through the crater side allowing rovers and UMMUs to work outside the perimeter of the base? If UCGO takes off, ground vehicles will become a bigger part of Orbiter.

 

[anemazoso]

I have an idea: How about a tunnel through the crater side allowing rovers and UMMUs to work outside the perimeter of the base? If UCGO takes off, ground vehicles will become a bigger part of Orbiter.

Great Idea!!! I will implement this, thanks!

 

[anemazoso]

Update:
I have added the "Large Craft landing Pad", a Garage for cars and a few other details.

 

[Interceptor]

Looks incredible keep up the great work.Thanks

 

[the.punk]

This looks fantastic.
Can't wait for landing and launching there.
:thumbup:

 

[tgep]

Very nice !
Question: From the screencaps, it looks as if the landing pads are placed at ground level. Is the crater mesh placed the same way or will it be like the moonbase alpha add on where you land outside the base but inside the crater and you look like your hanging several hundred meters above ground ?

 

[anemazoso]

Very nice !
Question: From the screencaps, it looks as if the landing pads are placed at ground level. Is the crater mesh placed the same way or will it be like the moonbase alpha add on where you land outside the base but inside the crater and you look like your hanging several hundred meters above ground ?

Yes the pads are placed at ground level. For the smaller pads the idea is that you can taxi into one of the hangars or vice versa. Also there are facilities that will support vehicles so the user will be able to take ummu people from a structure into a vehicle, drive the vehicle to a ship and put them in the ship. :tiphat:

 

[Interceptor]

Really cool stuff.Thanks

 

[anemazoso]

SEEKING INPUT!

If anyone has any pics or descriptions of what a nuke plant on the moon should look like please post. I really don't know where to start for this. :sos:

Oh ya, should stated this; it needs to be somewhat futuristic, say within the next 100 yrs.