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| Zaddy23 | Date: Tuesday, 14.10.2014, 01:36 | Message # 661 |
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| Yeah, I just wanted to know what file types KSP uses aside from .MU
Along with fezes and bowties, brown dwarves are cool.
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Tuesday, 14.10.2014, 16:22 | Message # 662 |
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| Quote FastFourierTransform (  ) Wow men!
The next time you are going to make a planet with blender if you continue like that
Thanks a ton. 
Experimenting with HDRI in (surprise surprise) Blender.
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| Watsisname | Date: Thursday, 16.10.2014, 15:32 | Message # 663 |
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| I found some old photos on a memory stick that I'd never transferred. Some gorgeous alpine hiking a couple summers back:
Also, something more recent and a bit more along the lines of work -- for a while I've been wanting to try to grow some Pacific Madrone. They are beautiful trees, but are somewhat uncommon and challenging to transplant. So I'll try it nature's way. I found a forest of them growing on a small island, gathered fallen fruit pods, and harvested the seeds. Now with some preparation and a bit of luck I'll get good germination for the Spring.
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 20.10.2014, 17:44 | Message # 664 |
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| I'm trying to get automatic star calibration to work for my meteor cameras, which is needed to translate pixel positions into az/alt. The longest exposure that I can get from the cameras is 1/5s, so only the brightest stars are visible. So I need to track them over some time to get sufficient reference points.
This is what I've managed so far (view in fullscreen at high res to see what's going on):
Star detection now seems reliable, but pixel pinpointing could be improved. I'm not able to assign star names (and hence ra/dec and az/alt) automatically. Astrometry.net fails, probably due to the incompatible projection and there might be too few stars.
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
Edited by midtskogen - Monday, 20.10.2014, 17:45 |
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| Handbanana | Date: Tuesday, 21.10.2014, 01:30 | Message # 665 |
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| Quote Zaddy23 ( ) Ah! sorry for the late question, but you look like you'd know what 3D model formats KSP uses, as I have no idea and I can't get blender to open the .MU stuff that KSP has by default.
There are two ways, one is easier but the other is more 'proper'.
The main method is to create the model in blender then export it into COLLADA (.dae). After loading the COLLADA model into Unity (free version works just fine), you use the part tools plugin to export it to KSP formats (.mu for models, .mbm for textures).
Unity Download
KSP Part Tools Plugin for Unity
If you're feeling lazy, there is an unofficial plugin for Blender in this KSP forum thread which can directly read and write .mu files. However, this is not feature complete and is not recommended if you don't know what you are doing.
Hope this helps.
Tonight... you.
Edited by Handbanana - Tuesday, 21.10.2014, 01:31 |
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| Fireinthehole- | Date: Tuesday, 21.10.2014, 10:08 | Message # 666 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) I found some old photos on a memory stick that I'd never transferred. Some gorgeous alpine hiking a couple summers back:
Beautiful landscape
Love Space Engine!
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| Wwadlol | Date: Sunday, 26.10.2014, 01:35 | Message # 667 |
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| I made a Garry's mod map based on Space Engine, by using textures.
It looks like this.
You can get it here on steam workshop: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedf....in=true
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| Destructor1701 | Date: Sunday, 26.10.2014, 02:50 | Message # 668 |
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| Awesome!
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| midtskogen | Date: Wednesday, 29.10.2014, 10:31 | Message # 669 |
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| I'm finally able to translate pixel positions into azimuth/altitude quite accurately, with 3 arc minutes for the most of the frame. And the calibration was done mostly automatically using videos containing stars.
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
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| Watsisname | Date: Wednesday, 29.10.2014, 10:57 | Message # 670 |
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| Great to hear you got that working. 3 arcminutes is not bad at all!
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| midtskogen | Date: Wednesday, 29.10.2014, 13:32 | Message # 671 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) 3 arcminutes is not bad at all
It's something like 175m at 200km distance. If we can know the track of a meteor with precision approaching that level, and model the dark flight reasonably well based on weather data and mass/speed estimates, it's getting quite realistic that something can be found on the ground even in less than optimal terrain.
Four cameras can cover the entire sky effectively giving a 5000x5000 pixel all-sky view (something which would be practically impossible optical wise with a single lens - even though there are 25 MP cameras, consumer fisheye lenses rated at that kind of resolution over the entire frame do not exist).
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
Edited by midtskogen - Wednesday, 29.10.2014, 13:34 |
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Thursday, 30.10.2014, 20:26 | Message # 672 |
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| I made this in Blender:
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 17.11.2014, 20:30 | Message # 673 |
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| Finally, my star calibration programme is working pretty well. I just give it 1 - 2 hours of video and approximate FOV of lens (this could be automatically determined, but would be slow), and my program does the rest figuring out precisely what part of the sky the view covers based on the stars visible in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDymepBQdoo
It took quite a few late nights to create, but will save me a lot of time in the future when I need to get bearings for fireballs.
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
Edited by midtskogen - Monday, 17.11.2014, 20:31 |
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Friday, 21.11.2014, 01:40 | Message # 675 |
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| Really nice pictures. 
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