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Here is NASA/JPL's InSight Mars Lander, and the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, "Oppy," ready to head out into Martian landscape.


Enjoy!

GOES-R Series Satellite:

https://www.goes-r.gov/3dModelAR/

So with the release of my Europa Clipper add on, I noticed that NASA has started using only a normal map for their 3D model's texturing, and creating the colors through various surface effects in Blender and such. To get around this limitation in Celestia, I was able to take the foil normal map text...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter's moon Europa.


Enjoy!

Updates include emissive lighting to the windows, and an actual normal map which gives it some actual TPS tiles and a few other modifications. NOTE: This update replaces the previous version of my Starship add on. Meaning that no prior versions of Starship are required for it to work. Enjoy! :smile:

Finally, here is Orbital ATK's Cygnus Enhanced spacecraft. This will also mark the last of my spacecraft addons, which are created from the Google Arts & Culture/NASA ISS 3D model.

Enjoy!

Took a while for me to get here, but I did it in the end. Presenting the 1st generation SpaceX Dragon, bound for the International Space Station.

ROSCOSMOS Soyuz Spacecraft. Orbit data is slightly less fictional, though it is still a move in the right direction.

Regarding models appearing all black in cmodview, this is actually a phenomenon I have faced regularly since I created Progress. As for the models not showing in Celestia, I have also seen this occur with my Starship addon. Only the difference with Starship is that it is only occurring on the iOS ve...

Though I was too young to know of Celestia early on, I am so glad to have discovered in its entirety. Shortly after Arecibo collapsed, I was feeling a bit down as I personally knew how significant the telescope was to the scientific community. At the same time, I was also looking for a way to make b...

Some very old, but very interesting models for Russian spacecraft designs: http://buran.ru/htm/3d-model.htm http://buran.ru/htm/vrml.htm If someone is ever willing to convert these to .obj, that would be fantastic btw. Mars Ingenuity Helicopter: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25043/mars-ingenuity-h...

UPDATE REGARDING PROGRESS: I don’t think my progress addon needs to be updated after all from a lighting perspective. Turns out that simply activating eclipse shadows eliminated 99.9% of this overbrightness issue. So unless this is really becoming a problem for other users, I think I’m going to leav...

Releasing this instead of the Cygnus or Cargo Dragon for the time being. Hopefully I can get those two to work properly in the near future. Note: Be on the lookout for an updated version of this spacecraft as I very likely will be changing the albedo, (or whatever it is called), so that it is not so...

These look incredible!!! I especially like landmasses on both of them as they have a really nice surface texturing too them. Makes it feel all the more realistic to an actual exoplanet. Great job!

SpaceX Starship


Updated to match the radius described by Gironde.

So I was able to get a hold of a Windows device in order to continue developing add ons for Celestia. However, I'm now running into a new problem when creating my add ons. Using my SNC Dream Chaser .ssc file as a template for my future add ons, I am now ending up with none of my add ons loading in C...

NASA HL-20 Lifting Body Concept: http://hangar.openvsp.org/vspfiles/291 SpaceX BFR Pre 2016 Concept Design: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2654042 United Kingdom Black Arrow Launch Vehicle: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4591234 United Launch Alliances Vulcan Rocket Early Concept: https://www....

I mean, if someone wants to help out every now then, that would be great.

The problem is not so much getting Anim8tor to run, but rather that the entire time it is running, I cannot click on any of the controls within the Anim8tor window. :sad: I'm going to hold off on making any further add ons for Celestia. I'll continue to share on the forum links to any 3d models I fi...

I'm on MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave. When I run Anim8tor through Wine, all I get are endless graphical glitches, and a completely unresponsive Anim8tor user interface. I have no doubt that Anim8tor is fantastic, but I don't think it is the best way forward here.