Ever wanted to pilot your own spacecraft?(its the HW boards, of COURSE you do!)

[Frish]

nows your chance.

a free, yes, i did say free, spac flight sim, super realistic . . . . like hugely realistic, like what-the-fuc*-is-going-on realistic (until you mess aorund for an hour or two, then you get used to it . .)

and realistic in the physics, probably not super realistic to the ISS and space shuttle . .. . .. . who knows, but it doesn't LOOK that realistic . . .


breathtakeing graphics, seriously






these are all taken IN-GAME . . . the graphics are that good (and no slow down, either, because there are a coupla HUGE spheres(planets, moons) and a couple stations, some buildings, and a coupla ships to render . . .and thats IT . . so you can afford huge poly counts and large-res textures . .

really, this game is sweet, but download and print out the .pdf manual, or at least the part with all the keyboard functions . . . l you'll need it.

oh yeah . . . . . a link

Orbiter

-Frish

[ceejayoz]

downloading now, looks quite impressive

[edit] this thing has one HELL of a learning curve! [/edit]

[Frish]

the amazing thing is other people are adding ships/code to it all the time . . .

i found an atlantis that has opening and closing doors, a working arm, and a satatlite to launch . . . . . . . . .

way cool.

also, word is you can create your own solar systems . . . .


so, take out all the planets . . . . .

put in one(or two, if you have AI) HUGE mothership

code in collisions detection

code in weapons systems . . . . . . .

if you could play onlin it would be sweet, but that might be harder to do than AIing the things . . .

you could play homeworld from a pilots point of view, and in an ultra realistic setting . . . . . . .

it would be sweet!!

[The5thElephant]

sooooooo haarrdddd.....i think i accidentally left the solar system when i hit my keyboard causing me to go to full power on the main engines AND fastforward time 1000x.....im lost....in space....help....

amazing game though

[HunterX]

Hmmm... dowloaded it... looks interesting... will screw around with it later...

Ok.... now what the hell am I supposed to do.....

[oneredpanther]

damn.
this thing is beyond hard, even if you do know what you're doing.

Time to dust off my college physics books again.

[ADUN]

Anyone wanna make fictonal ship imports? Most of the addons are either older ships or star trek.

I havent got to try much of it yet, i will later today tho.

Wonder if its possible to fly a war ship, and shoot stations/ai shuttles that shoot back
Imagion a retail space combat game of this volume...*drools*

[HunterX]

jesus... this thing has way too steep a learning curve for me... it go bye bye now

[ADUN]

Well, i dont have the acrobat or whatever you need to read this pdf file, so far ive found most of the functions out myself, but..

How do you speed up time? I started the game somehow millions of AU,s away from the ISS (pretty far since 1 au=distance from earch to sun)

Can someone tell me how to use time compression?

[Red Kerensky]

downloaded it along with alot of mods 4 it

of course, anything is possible (they give you the whole source coding)

theres no AI (you have to put AI in) but you can have multiple ships (and switch commands by using the F3 command)

personally i made a couple of mods, tho i prefer the motherships to be stations (since they can refuel)

but programming weapons and stuff like that in would be big work (professional programmers here)

fix your sig.

soul.