North American X-15: Difference between revisions

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* no hud available
* no hud available
* aircraft has no braking parachutes  
* aircraft has no braking parachutes  
== Ballistic high altitude flight and rendering ==
Flightgear is able to render the scene for the ballistic high altitude flight the X-15 is capable of (at least on a modern graphics card), but it needs some special adjustments to do so. Assume the visibility at arc top should be 500 km:
* from the menu, LOD bare range needs to be set to 500000.0
* in the property browser, /sim/rendering/camera-group/zfar needs to be set to 500000.0
* in the weather menu, configure visibility at high altitude to 500000.0 m
* use the Atmospheric Light Scattering framework to get the correct visuals of being outside the atmosphere in the rendering menu
[[File:X-15-iceland03.jpg|250px|The X-15 on the falling leg of a high-altitude ballistic trajectory above Iceland]]
[[File:X-15-iceland04.jpg|250px|The X-15 on the falling leg of a high-altitude ballistic trajectory above Iceland]]
[[File:X-15-iceland05.jpg|250px|The X-15 on the falling leg of a high-altitude ballistic trajectory above Iceland]]


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