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New candy (work in progress)

Post #1by Cham » 08.04.2007, 21:00

Since I'm waiting for Chris to debug his recent sprite code and shadows on dots CMOD not working, I'm starting a new project. Guess what it is ;-)

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Re: New candy (work in progress)

Post #2by t00fri » 08.04.2007, 21:07

Cham wrote:Since I'm waiting for Chris to debug his recent sprite code and shadows on dots CMOD not working, I'm starting a new project. Guess what it is ;-)

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No idea ;-) . A telescope mounting that fell over ???

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Post #3by Cham » 08.04.2007, 21:12

Let speculation begin :

1- the base structure of an enormous linear particle accelerator set in space ?
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Post #4by LordFerret » 09.04.2007, 03:50

2- New trans-Alaskan oil pipeline? :wink:

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Re: New candy (work in progress)

Post #5by starfleetengineer » 09.04.2007, 17:06

Cham wrote:Since I'm waiting for Chris to debug his recent sprite code and shadows on dots CMOD not working, I'm starting a new project. Guess what it is ;-)

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It looks like Stage One of Google TiSP: http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

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Post #6by ajtribick » 09.04.2007, 17:17

Pluto-Charon space elevator?

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Post #7by Cham » 09.04.2007, 18:53

Test prototype, just to check the general concept :

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Still a long way to go ...
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Post #8by Dollan » 09.04.2007, 23:50

A space telescope....?

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Post #9by ElChristou » 10.04.2007, 00:54

I'm wondering if Cham himself knows what is that thing! :D :wink:
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Post #10by bh » 10.04.2007, 09:04

Looks like a mobile phone mast. How it got up there is anyones guess!
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Post #11by Cham » 10.04.2007, 15:31

The long flat plane are solar panels (well, just a schematic prototype, for the moment). The cylinders are the main living sections. They will have a more complex shape : conical on one side and hemisphere on the exterior side. Not just cylinders. The evolution of that thing should be a bit similar to what I was showing on this topic :

http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10292 (first page)
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Post #12by Cham » 11.04.2007, 22:02

Small update. I'm working few minutes a day on that thing.

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Post #13by t00fri » 11.04.2007, 22:15

Since its length has doubled despite the "few minutes/day only", I wonder, what the length will be after a week or two...? ;-)

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Post #14by Cham » 11.04.2007, 22:23

t00fri wrote:Since its length has doubled despite the "few minutes/day only", I wonder, what the length will be after a week or two...? ;-)


Actually, it's very easy to duplicate objects. Copy-paste can do a lot of stuff. For example, it took few seconds to do this :wink:

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Post #15by t00fri » 11.04.2007, 22:41

sure, symmetry & modularity have always been powerful concepts ;-)
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Post #16by Cham » 11.04.2007, 23:09

Hmmm, my last picture gave me an idea : why not a spaceport ? There may be docking mechanisms, placed on each section (red arrows) :

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Space ferries, shuttles to Mars, ... with all commodities on the spaceport : bar, restaurants, a movie theatre, etc...
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Post #17by Cham » 12.04.2007, 02:40

It's fun to watch, in Celestia. I'm now forgetting the original concept and I'll work on that structure instead. Many details will be added inside the structure (Oxygen and Nitrogen reservoirs, tanks, cable, etc), and two docks per "arm". Once done, a "Taxi" will be docked, using an SSC declaration.

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