Space Shuttle Ultra 1.25 Revision B development
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Donamy
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Sorry, but I'm not familiar with using them. Is there anything you need added or changed, with what I've done ? I can make the LCD screen blank if you need it, and move all the text to another bitmap, if you wish.
tblaxland
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In the windows dialog code you can choose a transparency key (just an RGB value) which Windows will display as transparent. You can choose any colour you like so long as it is a known RGB value and not the same colour as anything you want displayed (just like a green screen). Then just paint anything you want transparent in that colour.
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I see you are right:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633556(VS.85).aspx
but you need to pre-multiply the RGB values in your source bitmap by the corresponding alpha channel values:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183393(VS.85).aspx
I think your alpha channel will only have values of either 0 or 255 so you could save yourself the trouble and just set all transparent areas to black.
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Looks good that way, I would split the bitmap into two parts, but that is a part I can do...wait...the sliding switch at the side of the clock should be separated, so I can paint it as well.
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Very nice detail.
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I just noticed in the current secret distraction project of mine, that slow particle streams are affected by gravity and fall towards Earth on a ballistic curve. maybe this could be exploited for the rainbirds.
It is fairly noticeable during tests of the water system. They recently did that after MLP-1 was transferred to Pad B after STS-119 launch in March:
I'm thinking about sending a e-mail to KSC PAO to see if there's an HD version of the event that they can upload to the NASA HD video page of NASA.gov.
In that video you can see that the water from the pipes come first with the rainbirds kicking in with a real torrent after a delay.
Latest work on the new MLP. The pipes are now correct and they now have the brackets that hold them in place on the SRB blastsheilds. There's some other brackets that hold the rest of the pipe work in place to the MLP which I will add next.
Then I plan to revise the rainbirds, they're a bit off and need a bit of attention.
Then I plan to revise the rainbirds, they're a bit off and need a bit of attention.
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How about simply trying a trial and error approach until we get something that starts to approach what we do know?
For example: We do know that according to the Orbit Ops C/L that the pre-stow neutral alpha and beta angles is -27° and -123° respectively.
And that final stow alpha and beta angles according to the same document is -29° and -125° respectively.
Is there not any way you could use these angles as a base and work from there?
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No, because I lack more samples to span the matrix around them. the main problem for me is just getting the three-four basic rotations and transformations done right...i would need some time to lock in my room and work without the world bothering me...
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I've been looking at a pic of the KU antenna and I think I have a solution for you. Let me neaten up my scribbles and I will come back soon.
