Yikes! It ate The Moon!!
Posted: 20.04.2004, 15:38
I was playing around with the models and placement of the Apollo landers trying to mix models from different sources and get the sizes to match. I saved the .ssc file and ran Celestia and told it to go to Apollo 11 LM.
What I got looked like a screenful of garbage. As I used the mouse to pull back, I realized that for some reason I had been zoomed way in close to the landing module and the garbage was just an extreme close-up of the model. As I zoomed out, I saw that all the Apollo models were in the same place, each oriented differently, creating a weird 24-legged monster.
I couldn't see the Moon, just the Earth off in the distance. I figured the camera was probably inside the Moon, so I kept zooming out and rotating around.
Then the Earth swung around between me and the Apollo landers and I realized that the Moon was inside the Landing Module Monster, which was big enough to eat the Earth next! I got a really nifty scare in the moment when my mind made reoriented itself to the scale.
Looking at the .ssc I reallized I'd just mispelled radius ('raidius'
) and I guess the default size is more on a planetary scale.
In other scaling follies, I've been fooling around with a bunch of Star Wars add-ons and had this awesome Star Destroyer orbiting the Death Star and decided to add some Tie Fighters orbiting the Star Destroyer. I added the first one, and opened Celestia to check it out, but I'd used the default sizes for both models and they were...the same size. In fact, the Tie Fighter was a little bit bigger, making my awe-inspiring Star Destroyer look like a toy.
Anyone else have a stupid scaling story, or know someone who does?
I've been toying with the idea of making a tiny miniature copy of the Solar System with tiny versions of the planets orbiting a little asteroid somewhere (is it possible to make a tiny little star?)
What I got looked like a screenful of garbage. As I used the mouse to pull back, I realized that for some reason I had been zoomed way in close to the landing module and the garbage was just an extreme close-up of the model. As I zoomed out, I saw that all the Apollo models were in the same place, each oriented differently, creating a weird 24-legged monster.
I couldn't see the Moon, just the Earth off in the distance. I figured the camera was probably inside the Moon, so I kept zooming out and rotating around.
Then the Earth swung around between me and the Apollo landers and I realized that the Moon was inside the Landing Module Monster, which was big enough to eat the Earth next! I got a really nifty scare in the moment when my mind made reoriented itself to the scale.
Looking at the .ssc I reallized I'd just mispelled radius ('raidius'
) and I guess the default size is more on a planetary scale.
In other scaling follies, I've been fooling around with a bunch of Star Wars add-ons and had this awesome Star Destroyer orbiting the Death Star and decided to add some Tie Fighters orbiting the Star Destroyer. I added the first one, and opened Celestia to check it out, but I'd used the default sizes for both models and they were...the same size. In fact, the Tie Fighter was a little bit bigger, making my awe-inspiring Star Destroyer look like a toy.
Anyone else have a stupid scaling story, or know someone who does?
I've been toying with the idea of making a tiny miniature copy of the Solar System with tiny versions of the planets orbiting a little asteroid somewhere (is it possible to make a tiny little star?)
