Shuttle model

[bh]

Famous last words... I can't seem to let go of this one.

I've done some major reworking of this model. They now look more accurate proportion wise. Also rewoked the doors, nose area and fuselage.



and...



I'm afraid the mesh got slightly damaged after all the stretching and pulling about, so in a couple of areas the mesh is a little scruffy (I hope to fix these when my modeling skills get better). When I've fixed the mesh I hope to fix the doors, maybe adding the inner doors, some payload detail, manipulator arm and astronauts. I have a detailed astronaut figure but he's a big fella can anyone make an MMU?...Anyway, I go on...get the new shuttle models here:

http://www.rhundley.freeserve.co.uk/newcolumbia.zip

Regards...

[Darkmiss]

It gets better and better with each version

[bh]

Well...here it is...I reckon I can do no more with this.


I've added the leading edges, detailed the windows and done some more work on the doors and nose. I will do a doors closed version as soon as I'm ready... I hope you like it. Let me know what you think.

http://www.rhundley.freeserve.co.uk/columbia.zip

Regards to all...bh.

[Darkmiss]

this is the best version yet
but the white stripe on the nose seems to be slightly detatched.
and still one window left on the inside bay

looking forward to this last version (opened and closed)

[bh]

Thanks for the feedback Paul...I've fixed this panel, but there's a bit of overlap on the mesh. There is a black panel here with the thruster nozzels which I hope to add at a later date. The detailing of this model has just runaway with me!! I've added doudle doors and some other extras. You can't zoom into the model too close, but I'm fairly happy with it now...thanks for all your help. I need a break from this for now.




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Get the update:

http://www.rhundley.freeserve.co.uk/columbia.zip

Keep the feedback coming in. Regards...bh.

[Darkmiss]

you deserve a break, your work has been great

[bh]

Here's the latest three models, all with doors open and other extra stuff. Still alot to do on these but they should fit into most senarios.


Get them here (sorry the zip's so big]. Let me know what you think, comments suggestions... regards to all...bh.

http://www.rhundley.freeserve.co.uk/columbia.zip

[Michael]

I have the shuttle Columbia from bh. However, it is mostly gray! Can I make it white? Can I move it away from Hubble?
Please, for us "dummies", include a read me on how to use the file you create.
bh- great looking model maybe you could "tweak" the Hubble? the ISS?

[bh]

Michael...I'm sorry your shuttle is grey. I suspect this may be a graphic hardware problem. What graphic card are you using. Try playing with the lighting options in the view menu and get the model into direct sunlight to light it up. I'm a bit new to this model making stuff, I must find out how others colour up their models.

To move away from hubble try this:

"Space Shuttle" "Sol/Earth"
{
Class "spacecraft"
Mesh "columbia.3ds"
Radius 0.020

EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.06678
SemiMajorAxis 6465.5
Eccentricity 0
Inclination 32.5
AscendingNode 329
ArgOfPericenter 96
MeanAnomaly 287

}

Albedo 0.10
}

I will look into the 'grey shuttle' in the meantime. Has anyone else got 'grey shuttle'?

Regards...bh.

[selden]

It looks fine to me! (This is on an ATI RAGE card with an older version of Celestia.)

A common reason for Celestia to make a white object look grey is for the object to be in shadow. It should be invisibly black, but most people have "Ambient Light" turned up to "Medium".

Michael,

Could this be what's happening for you? Could the shuttle have been over the Earth's night side when you were looking at it?

[Michael]

Thank you, bh, for the file. No need to be sorry You are probably right about the graphics card- I have integrated graphics and have seen other color differences with Celestia textures. Your models still look great!
Selden- I turned ambient light off and the shuttle is---white!! Still white when I turn ambient to medium! Don't know what happened here, (not over night side), but looks good now

[bh]

Hello..

Doors closed model coming soon.. I'll have to rescale the model to put it on the booster stack.

I hope to have models available for liftoff, booster seperation and external tank seperation soon..

I need some orbital information for this.

Any help would be nice...

Regards...bh.

[bh]

Yet another shuttle model, this time with the ISS...


The ISS is in roughly August 2001 config... I would like to do a more up to date version...with more detail, but I'm no modeller.
I can't find any descent reference pics...I have looked, honest.

Get it here...190kb.
http://www.rhundley.freeserve.co.uk/issorbiter.zip

Regards...bh.

[bh]

My web space is down at the moment, I hope to fix this asap.

Regards...bh.

[bh]

Hello...I'm sorry the shuttle models are still offline, it's because all my webspace is taken up with the shallow water texture. If you haven't got your shuttle models yet, pm me and I could mail you the zip.

Many regards...bh.

[Guest]

Hello again...disregard my last post...shuttle models back online.

Regards...bh.

[bh]

New shuttle model...no payload, probably last in series for a while.



http://www.rhundley.freeserve.co.uk/nopayload.zip

Regards...bh.