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User:Japreja is now modelling the landing gear for the Shuttle. | User:Japreja is now modelling the landing gear for the Shuttle. | ||
[[File:Spaceshuttlegear.png|200px|center]] | [[File:Spaceshuttlegear.png|200px|center]] | ||
Lots of work is currently going into orbital maneuvering. The reaction control system has been overhauled to a realistic configuration, giving the Shuttle a grand total of 51 distinct engines to be controlled by the guidance logic in different modes, many of them pointing away from orthogonal direction which gives a realistic simulation of cross coupling between the various rotational and translational modes when the RCS is used. | |||
In addition, the visuals of the OMS and RCS engines have been re-done to agree with NASA imagery and the Shuttle is now rendered with a dedicated space effect which creates hard light and shadows outside the atmosphere - here is an example of the OMS firing at full thrust with the new visuals: | |||
[[File: Shuttle OMS full.jpg|400px|Orbital Maneuvering System in action]] | |||
== Scenery Corner == | == Scenery Corner == | ||