OHM Asteroid 2008 EA9 (dockable)

[OrbitHangar]

Author: joffrey

2008 EA9 is a Near-Earth Asteroid. Its diameter is 10 meters and its mass is 1200 tons.

The geometry and the texture of this addon are entirely fictional. The mesh is composed of 10,000 polygons and the texture is 2048x2048 pixels.

The interesting feature is that you can dock your spacecraft on this rock. In deed, there is 6 docking ports, allowing to simulate an anchoring. Once you are anchored, you can make experiments on how to move an asteroid. For example, take the Arrow Freighter and try to bring back this asteroid in earth orbit. This is a real challenge but this is possible (I tried succesfully).

#UPDATE 1 : Now includes a high quality mesh (30,000 polys) in meshes folder. Not used by default, you have to rename the .msh to erase the old one.

#UPDATE 2 : Now includes a normal map, compatible with D3D9 and D3D11 clients.


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[romanasul]

Nice looking mesh! Thank you, a really nice addon.

 

[Scav]

:facepalm:

It's too big. Darn.

 

[statickid]

haha the docking screen is funny

but cool! thanks! :thumbup:

 

[superotherguy]

=O
Polygonsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...

 

[joffrey]

Thank you for all your comments

 

[Aeadar]

I'd like to see this done with a 100-150 meter diameter asteroid(with a realistic mass) on a collision course with Earth.
Various 'late-date' scenarios could have rendezvous and 'docking' procedures to try and alter the asteroids course.

 

[joffrey]

#UPDATE 1 : Now includes a high quality mesh (30,000 polys) in meshes folder. Not used by default, you have to rename the .msh to erase the old one.

 

[joffrey]

#UPDATE 2 : Now includes a normal map, compatible with D3D9 and D3D11 clients.

 

[Kyle]

Anyone having a problem with the textures? Seems to me they're not showing up at all on the mesh.

-- EDIT, found the problem. Nvm.

 

[Kendo]

Nice. I don,t seem to have a Normal map.