Moon Landscapes

[John Garvey]

I have been trawling through some of the download sites for FS2K2 and found various aircraft models for things like the Eagle from Space 1999 and several ships from the Star Wars movies.

Does anyone know of any scenery add-ons of the Moon or Mars or similar?  

[Oz]

Nope, it would be a pretty cool idea but no ones done it. The only thing out there is the 'Coruscant' star wars scenery at surclaro.com

[Lethal.Ambition]

Well go ahead and download the Battle Of The Airlines ( BoTA) and install it, the BoTA for this year was MIssion Mars and once of the scenery's is the moon! On Africa i think? Its very cool. IMO

[DanielF]

I downloaded a cool scenery for FS5 a long time ago.  It was really awsome!  There were satilites that you could land in (like 50,000 ft up).  The best part was the moon though.  It was a huge circle somewhere in the middle of the atlantic.  It was big enough that when you were anywere near the middle, you can't see the edge.  They had the landing sites you could fly over and a futuristic spaceport.  I wish I could tell you where I got it, but it was from a personal webpage.  I haven't been able to find it in the major sites.  (probably too out of date for you anyway, but back then it was awsome! lol)  ;D

[DanielF]

I decided to work on a moon scenery to practice my GMax skills.

[jocool]

UPLOAD IT PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  JOCOOL

[DanielF]

Ok, lol

[jocool]

Great!!!!Now I will have to make a SaturnV.Here are some pics of a Mercury Redstone I made For CFS2.It shows liftoff,escape rocket seperation,booster seperation and heat shield seperation.

                                        JOCOOL.

[DanielF]

Wow!

[jocool]

If you check around I think you can find CFS2 pretty cheap nowadays.

[WebbPA]

Here's a shot of the Battle of the Airlines scenery (per Astrogeek's post).



All you would need is the scenery package from the final mission at http://www.planetaviation.com/virtualai ... frames.htm

[DanielF]

Cool! Looks like I've been beat!

[WebbPA]

I learn a lot by seeing what others have done and trying to improve on it.  The screenshot looks great but it ran at about 4 fps and the lunar landscape was just a couple of craters that repeated endlessly. You can't see it in this shot but I think the McDonalds slowed it down too.

You also have to have the flight file (included in the mission dl) because it's at night and it looks like crap in the daytime.

BOTA also had an interesting space vehicle, kind of like a Harrier.

Anyway, keep up on the moonscape.  BOTA was fun but not really suited for general use.

[DanielF]

Ah, ok.

[Iroquois]

If you really want to fly to the moon, you must get Orbiter. It's a freeware space sim. There are a variery of space craft that you can get from Sputnik 1 to the USS Voyager from Star Trek. You can travel the entire solar system if you wish. Flight is realistic and the sim virtually has no limits. Good graphics and realistic flight preformance. It comes with the Atlantis Space Shuttle, ISS, Mir, as well as a few other fictional spacecraft and stations. There are several land based stations on Earth (including a highly detailed Cape Canaveral) as well as one on Mars (At Olympus Muns) and the Moon (At the Sea of Tranquility).

You can get Orbiter from www.orbitersim.com
Avsim (www.avsim.com) contains a large library of addons for orbiter. I believe that Flightsim.com may have some Orbiter addons as well.