Spacecrafts for Celestia

[gironde]

Selden,
jpg images do not work in cmodview unlike png.
but they work apparently with the use of the cmod in Celestia.
It's a design problem because you work blindly.

[toutatis]

Hello guys... who have a new Mars Odyssey model it's need to change a Meshcenter...

[gironde]

EchoStar 16: Satellite TV developed by the American company SSLoral and launched from Baikonour.



Added after 1 hour 53 minutes:
Suomi NPP : Satellite weather japanese. The model is not super mail it has the merit to exist.

[toutatis]

Celestia Origin from 30 April 2018... New Horizons spacecraft... MeshCenter [ -14.9 -2 -15.5 ]

[Croc]

EchoStar 16: Satellite TV developed by the American company SSLoral and launched from Baikonour.
Suomi NPP : Satellite weather japanese. The model is not super mail it has the merit to exist.

[gironde]

RBSP A and B, in charge of studying the Van Allen belt, they have the distinction of having instruments deployed 164 feet from the body of the satellite, at the end of a cable stretched by centrifugal force.

[toutatis]

Thanks Gironde...

[Croc]

[gironde]

corrigendum reported by Croc:
Suomi NPP is a satellite of NASA

Please excuse me

[Croc]

The J002E3 Apollo remnant. Initially reported as a new asteroid, and was discovered by Bill Yeung on September 3, 2002. Further examination revealed that the object was not an asteroid but the S-IVB third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket.
Model Author: Jack Higgins http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=25



Author illustrations: NASA - MSFC-0100983 - Saturn V S-IVB (Third) Stage

ssc-file is created on the basis of a similar file for Apollo 10 S-IVB 505 (Creator: Diane Neisius (Medusa))



Trajectory J002E3 Apollo remnant:



Learn More https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3

[gironde]

Hello,

I redid the 3D files of Gemini7 and 8 as well as the upper stage Agena D used on the rocket Thor and Atlas.
In 1966, the mission of Gemini 8 was to dock with a target floor Agena D.
The crew of Gemini 8 was Neil Armstrong and David Scott.

The new ssc files are organized and renamed to organize this space rendezvous on March 16, 1966 16h41mn02s until March 17, 1966 3h32mn28s.

For users of LUT5, you need to edit SpaceRaceBox and rename the texts and targets for Gemini 8 that I called Gemini 8 stowage Agena for the button and Gemini 8 stowage for the target.
in the old add-on, Agena was declared with a "component" class that does not exist; I replaced it with "spacecraft".

example :

Code: Select all

-- ====================
SpaceRace018Box = CXBox:new()
    :init(0, 0, 0, 0)
    :bordercolor(cbubordoff)
    :textfont(smallfont)
    :textcolor(cbutextoff)
    :textpos("left")
    :movetext(-3, 10)
    :text(_("USA"))
    :movable(false)
    :active(false)
    :attach(SpaceRaceFrame, 2, 2+14*(gg-18), 129, 5+14*18)

SpaceRace118Box = CXBox:new()
    :init(0, 0, 0, 0)
    :bordercolor(cbubordoff)
    :textfont(smallfont)
    :textcolor(specificAddon)
    :textpos("left")
    :movetext(-2, 10)
    :text(_("Gemini 8 stowage Agena"))
    :movable(false)
    :active(true)
    :attach(SpaceRaceFrame, 31, 2+14*(gg-18), 2, 5+14*18)

 SpaceRace118Box.Action = (function()
    return
        function()
            local obj = celestia:find("Gemini 8 stowage")
            celestia:select(obj)
            if not(empty(obj)) then
               tdb_dt = celestia:utctotdb(1966, 3, 16, 16, 41, 00)
               celestia:settime(tdb_dt)
               obs:chase(obj)
               obs:goto(obj)
               celestia:settimescale(25)
             end
        end
    end) ()

For others, you'll have to manipulate Celestia's clock to be on the right date and time, and see this appointment.




Added after 29 minutes 13 seconds:
correction

'Agena D Gemini8' in the same file ssc que 'Gemini 8 stowage'

Added after 6 minutes 58 seconds:
Gemini

attention the 2 versions are grouped in the same post

the first zip in the post is the good, the second is the bad

[gironde]

I start again with the good version of Gemini
because everything is mixed on the forum

the correct modified file is called "modified Program Gemini.zip"

[gironde]

we'll have to see why the "merge with last message" option reappears after a preview

[Art Blos]

Celestia Origin from 30 April 2018... New Horizons spacecraft... MeshCenter [ -14.9 -2 -15.5 ]

Thank you! This will come in handy.

[gironde]

mysteries of modeling!


I wanted to change the appearance of S-IVB 507 from Croc through a cmod file.


attached, a real photo, a screenshot of Croc, a screenshot of me and a screenshot of cmodview


Croc use :
Mesh "j002e3.3ds"
Texture "j002e3.bmp"


Me use :
Mesh "j002e3.cmod"
# Texture "j002e3.bmp"

the texture is in cmod (see photo cmodview)
the result is the same, black band down to the link of being at the top

[Goofy]

Hi Gironde.
As I told I know nothing about 3d modelling, but I like to check what I can, so I ruotated 180° the Apollo bmp texture, checked it in cmodview, and it was ruotated 180° as it has not to be really.
So I opened the Apollo 12 in Celestia and the result is OK now:

Now it looks OK...

Just a thought, may be the texture is wrongly ruotated 180° in the original 3d file?
Bye.
Goofy

Added after 13 minutes 45 seconds:
Hi.
Anyway, about Apollo S-IVB stage, the model is wrong, because the real thing had a single J-2 engine, not two like in this model, as shown too in Croc's image.
Sorry, but is is so.
My two cents.
Goofy

[Croc]

Goofy, you are right:

504-512 are serial numbers, and not an S-IVB modification

• S-IVB-504 Apollo 9
• S-IVB-505 Apollo 10
• S-IVB-506 Apollo 11
• S-IVB-507 Apollo 12
• S-IVB-508 Apollo 13
• S-IVB-509 Apollo 14
• S-IVB-510 Apollo 15
• S-IVB-511 Apollo 16
• S-IVB-512 Apollo 17

Model Author: Jack Higgins was wrong.

[gironde]

Ah yes Goofy
but I think I have found another model.
I will see.

[Goofy]

Hi Gironde, good to know it.
Bye.
Goofy

[toutatis]

Thank you! This will come in handy.