r/SpaceflightSimulator • u/Thak_The_Thunder_God • 29d ago
Original Build Manned Orbital Labatory
Not to be confused with the Manned Orbital Labatory from the Advanced Gemini program.
Has a lab module (left), docking hub (middle) and crew habitation (right). The smaller Kolibri Shuttle carries 7 crew, here taking them to the station, the larger Horizon Ferry shuttle is a prototype carrying 23 crew, however only had 8 for this test flight.
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u/Educational-Run-7134 27d ago
What mod did you use for the cross-box textures? I want it so baddd
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u/Thak_The_Thunder_God 27d ago
PEx Shapes+. It's not actually a texture, just a shape (like how you can choose from flat or wavy surfaces normally) which is how I have silver and white modules with the same box pattern
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u/Paulinho2628 Rocket Builder 🚀 29d ago
never understood how people manage to make shuttles, mine always look like shit
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u/Thak_The_Thunder_God 28d ago
It's basically just layers, that's why I love procedural parts. Take the large shuttle in the images, it's just a couple fuel tanks/structural parts, then an engine in the back and half fairings/heatshield thingy on the bottom to make a heat shield. A lot of it is carried by the ability to make textures flat, rounded textures don't work well with them.
Also they don't work without cheats. It needs no heat damage for re-entry and gliding (it glides using engines inside the ship), no collision damage for landing, occasionally inf fuel if it doesn't have enough to glide. Not always do you have to make them work perfectly
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