Couple of Orion's Arm add-ons

[eburacum45]

An addon for the planet Rufus and its five moons
http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Rufus.zip

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the history page for this world is here
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3bb4ef0f54d
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an image of a conjunction between four of the five moons here



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[eburacum45]

An addon for seven artificial planets around Procyon
http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Procyon.zip

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the history page for the Procyon system is here
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4703bd683b72b
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an image of one of the seven artificial worlds here

[Reiko]

Very nice! I love your Orion's Arm add-ons.

[eburacum45]

I've got loads, but I've only recently have found a way to upload them to the new Orion's Arm site.
Here's another one
Starlifting at Polaris
http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Polar ... ifting.zip

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We haven't written very much about starlifting on the site yet
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oae ... 8264cb9420
but here is the wiki page about the subject
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting

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an image of the starlifting project at Polaris here (note: this is the so-called 'Huff-n-Puff' system.

[eburacum45]

The dry, limestone-dominated world of Cenote
http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Cenote.zip
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This one is 3075 ly from Sol, and I added a few smaller stars nearby, together with planets. The textures for Cenote are in this .zip, but to see the textures for most of the other planets, you need to download the three main OA download packages, which have lots of textures in them. I've been experimenting with swapping the clouds and rings around, and using oblateness, blendtexture true, mie scattering and the colour of the local star to make these older textures look different in each system. The possible variations are almost endless.

See the bottom of this page for more details:
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/491c2e73c4188

[eburacum45]

I've updated all the Orion's Arm addon pages, with new Cel:URLs which work with the new Celestia 1.6.0 system
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa- ... ACelestia1
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa- ... ACelestia2
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa- ... ACelestia3

I've got some very nice hi-res textures for a couple of OA planets by Felipe Brando, which I'm converting into virtual textures - but this will take a few days to finish.
steve

[zhar2]

Btw, felipe brando (cadavid) is me, second name is important to cos as far as i know there are 4 felipe brandos in the world lol

[eburacum45]

Hi Felipe!

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I've finished the VT for Atlantis (Zeta1 Reticuli II), and am halfway through the VT for Nova Terra. Thanks!

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the virtual texture for Atlantis can be seen here


Both files are a bit big- about 30 megs in total. I might have to load them up to the Celestia Motherlode

[eburacum45]

Perhaps this is a good time to mention that the first Orion's Arm Novella collecton is now available at Amazon;
this collection includes a short story set on Rufus (see the the first post in this thread)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-Diamond ... 968&sr=8-1

(possibly the first piece of original fiction published with a Celestia add-on to go with it)