Kyle
Armchair Astronaut
From what I know, there is no addon out there that includes LC-39B with the three lightning towers installed in 2009. I was wondering, is anyone up to making them?
Request LC-39B Lightning Towers
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Felipi1205
Spaceflight enthusiast
Yes, it's a good idea! The lightning towers are beautiful, but are useless with the space shuttle launch pad, maybe in an addon featuring the SLS the Lightning towers could be added...
Kyle
Armchair Astronaut
Well, it would be nice to see them in the background for re-creating the last few shuttle missions and for wanting to fly STS-400, as when 400 was at the pad LC-39B had lightning towers. Ares I-X also launched from the shuttle era LC-39B with those lightning towers and without the lightning tower on the FSS.
Maybe they could be made as a mesh that you add to your canaveral.cfg file like the stock LC-39B instead of remaking a new LC-39B.
N_Molson
Addon Developer
Why not... Does someone knows their height, and the dimensions of their (triangular) base ?
Another pic with more details :
Height of each tower = 594 feet (from the contractor itself !) : http://www.iveysconstruction.com/CompletedProjects/032_ConstructLightningProtectionLC39B.asp
The lighting mast itself is 103 feet tall, for a diameter of 7 meters, made mainly of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic.
Schematic :
Drawing :
3D View :
Base view :
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Genuine LC39B map :
Interesting PDF :
Final Draft : Environnemental Assessement for the construction, modification and operation of the three facilities in support of the Constellation program (Feb 2007)...
Another pic with more details :
Height of each tower = 594 feet (from the contractor itself !) : http://www.iveysconstruction.com/CompletedProjects/032_ConstructLightningProtectionLC39B.asp
The lighting mast itself is 103 feet tall, for a diameter of 7 meters, made mainly of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic.
Schematic :
Drawing :
3D View :
Base view :
---------- Post added at 02:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 PM ----------
Genuine LC39B map :
Interesting PDF :
Final Draft : Environnemental Assessement for the construction, modification and operation of the three facilities in support of the Constellation program (Feb 2007)...
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Kyle
Armchair Astronaut
That 3D view posted is a picture from Orbiter 0.o
asbjos
tuanibrO
Sorry guys, but I think it allready exists something like this here --> [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3792"]LC39-EAFB 2006.3 - Hi-Res by Slat[/ame]
But they don't look quite like the ones you are showing on the pictures, so why not?
And T.Neo, I think it's possible with only deleting some lines in the Orbiter/Config/Earth/Base/Canaveral.cfg file...
But they don't look quite like the ones you are showing on the pictures, so why not?
And T.Neo, I think it's possible with only deleting some lines in the Orbiter/Config/Earth/Base/Canaveral.cfg file...
Kyle
Armchair Astronaut
I've had that addon. No, it does not have the LC-39B that is up to date, rather it has it as the twin pads as they where from 1986 - 2008, aka it does not have the three lightning towers around LC-39B that was installed in 2009 for the Ares I-X mission.
_and_Endeavour_(STS-400)_on_launch_pads_again.jpg)
N_Molson
Addon Developer
Made a try at it, using the right dimensions. Here's my attempt to reproduce the first level of the towers, it's a tradeoff between details and not too much polys (there are going to be 3 towers) :
I was thinking that scaling would be an easy method to complete the tower, but it appears that the proportions are not that linear, so it is more complex.
The same structure is repeated 24 times on the tower.
I was thinking that scaling would be an easy method to complete the tower, but it appears that the proportions are not that linear, so it is more complex.
The same structure is repeated 24 times on the tower.
As I posted earlier, my brother-in-law (he did the hi-res version of LC19 for Gemini) & I have been redoing LC39A & both versions of LC39B since Shuttle Fleet 4.8 came out.
Concrete pad structures are done & new MLP is almost complete. Probably wont be any ground modeling as there was for pad 19 since pad 39 is fairly level, but detailed out-buildings & the lightning towers WILL be included.
Deciding how best to handle the animations as we begin the FSS & MSS.
Concrete pad structures are done & new MLP is almost complete. Probably wont be any ground modeling as there was for pad 19 since pad 39 is fairly level, but detailed out-buildings & the lightning towers WILL be included.
Deciding how best to handle the animations as we begin the FSS & MSS.
Kyle
Armchair Astronaut
Titan, that sounds really cool! 
Any chance you could post pictures!??
Any chance you could post pictures!??
Not much to see as yet. The detailing on the MLP is about half done (pipes/stringers/railings/etc). LOX & LH2 tanks done, but the piping for the pad isn't laid in yet.
Models will be high poly count as you can't show this level of detail with textures alone, but Saturn's pad 19 was based on the same principle and as far as we know, there were no issues with the poly count.
Pictures coming as soon as we can show the improved detail.
Models will be high poly count as you can't show this level of detail with textures alone, but Saturn's pad 19 was based on the same principle and as far as we know, there were no issues with the poly count.
Pictures coming as soon as we can show the improved detail.
N_Molson
Addon Developer
Done with the frame of the first level. The closer you look at it, the more you get admirative, a true wonder of structural engineering, interesting. :yes:
The proportions should be very close of the real thing.
Only 18 sub-levels to go. :lol:
The proportions should be very close of the real thing.
Only 18 sub-levels to go. :lol:
Felipi1205
Spaceflight enthusiast
The model is good with low-end computers?
Kyle
Armchair Astronaut
That looks excellent Molson!
Looks cool!
Here's an "in progress" shot of the new MLP. Hard to see the railings, but they are there. All detail is 3D.
Probably not quite 1/2 done, but once the decks & railings are complete (painstaking as I'm sure you know), the sides should'nt take that long.
Here's an "in progress" shot of the new MLP. Hard to see the railings, but they are there. All detail is 3D.
Probably not quite 1/2 done, but once the decks & railings are complete (painstaking as I'm sure you know), the sides should'nt take that long.
Any updates? Would be a shame to see this die so near completion.First floor (Level A) frame completed :
