Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Unstung]

Is that a DXD9 normal map? Looks beautiful! (My fave probe too!)

I'd say a specular map (handles light reflections, or rather the surfaces emissivity).

Normal maps are used to render scratches, bumps, rough surfaces, joints, panels, etc... (my DG on the pic above looks somewhat "bloated" because I applied a strong normal map). Sometimes they are called bumpmaps.

Finally you have glow maps (for surfaces that glow like thrusters...).

Well, AFAIK...

My post was certainly misleading. What I'm working on is not a model for Orbiter and that's not an unedited screenshot. Also, I do enable specular reflections on the model for most scenes.

 

[N_Molson]

Paint it grey?

So funny... And constructive.

Here is another screen from the behind of the cockpit

I would say that the enhanced shadows add some "depht" to the textures (ajoutent du relief).

 

[Codz]

I decided to fly the Apollo 11 mission today.

 

[Donamy]

Waiting for launch !

 

[TMac3000]

July 13/Flight Day 71: Odyssey crosses the orbit of Venus. With roughly 30 million kilometers to go, her crew is now counting weeks rather than months.

Earth and Luna are visible in the background.

The sun is getting large as Odyssey hurtles in-system.

 

[Cras]

baylights...because "why not?"

 

[Interceptor]

baylights...because "why not?"

Cool stuff,looking foward to trying it out.

 

[David413]

Sally Ride and STS-7 - a memorial

June, 1983; Sally Ride and Challenger approach Florida. As I work on the updated STS-Payloads, here is STS-7.

 

[icedown]

Station building... Gonna be a long day.

 

[HAL9001]

some shuttle-screenshots

:camera:

 

[Kyle]

D3D9 is awesome.

Apollo 18 on LC39A. May 21st, 1973.

 

[Star Voyager]

Excellent! Where on the Moon is 18 heading?

 

[Kyle]

Excellent! Where on the Moon is 18 heading?

Going by the original schedule, Copernicus crater. I figure a May launch date as the gap between Apollo 16 and 17 was 5 months, same with the gap between Apollo 14 and 15. So, Apollo 18 would have taken place 5 months after Apollo 17.

 

[Donamy]

Probably to use the sun's angle, to use the LEMs shadow as a landing cue.

 

[David413]

STS 41-C, Solar Max rescue attempt (EVA 1)

April 8, 1984; George "Pinky" Nelson approaches the Solar Maximum satellite.

 

[ionif]

STS-41C for ShuttleFleet or SSU?:thumbup:

 

[David413]

Shuttle Fleet; part of the payloads update I'm working on.

 

[Donamy]

Shuttle Fleet; part of the payloads update I'm working on.

You need a 'stinger' for the EVA guy.

 

[Rtyh-12]

I've tried to do an Earth-Moon-Earth free return trip in an XR2. For some random reason I started to take screenshots, so here they are.

The XR2 is doing the flyby of the Moon.

Same thing, a short while later.

It's a really long way down...

Aerobraking to return to LEO.

Oh, this is not good...

...but thankfully, through a series of highly illegal maneuvers, I managed to survive. This is a picture of me flying out of the atmosphere.

I proceeded to do a reentry the 'normal' way (should've done a direct reentry), but I overshot WIA and called the mission a failure.

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From an Earth-Jupiter-back to the inner solar system trip:

The slingshot of Jupiter, with Io visible too.

A last view of the Jovian system, then it's time to go back to travelling through the dark, falling back to the orbit of the Earth...

Surprise! I had decided halfway through to change the slingshot's target. Unfortunately, we'll only come back to Earth in around 200 years. But don't worry! You won't have to wait that long. We only have oxygen for a few years.

This picture was taken by automated systems 109 years later, at the new orbit's apoapsis.

Sorry for the poor quality of the image. I had to take it at a FOV of 10 degrees so all the (outer) planets were visible, but at that FOV they wouldn't all fit on the screen. So I tried to take two screenshots and combine them, but I couldn't align them properly. In the end, I just put them next to each other.

 

[David413]

You need a 'stinger' for the EVA guy.

Actually, for this particular mission I need to add the TPAD (Trunnion-Pin Attachment Device). You're thinking of STS-51A where the 'stinger' was first used.