Orcus Patera documentation

Index:

General:
  Welcome
  Learn how to use Orcus Patera
  About Authors

Credit,license, links:
  Links
  Thanks, credit and license

Welcome

Welcome to Orcus Patera,

Orcus Patera is a fictional base located on Mars, it includes many oustanding features.

To run this addon you'll need the following:

Universal Cars and Cargo for Orbiter (UCGO)

DeltaGliderIV

DX9 or DX11 graphic clients for Orbiter (Not mandatory but it gives a better visual result)

Note: Somes features such as wheel dust that you can see on the screenshots will require UCGO 3.0 not available at the time of Orcus Patera release. It will be available soon.

Features

Stunning ground meshes and textures.

5 new amazing UCGO cars. (See scenario "[Cool] New ucgo cars")

AI traffic passing over the base. If you are lucky you can even see one ship doing a reentry at hight speed and high altitude. (Very long trail)

Animated Solar Cleaner (big yellow bar), you can see them slowly doing their job, you can even command them with a switch.

Animated Hangar doors to safely park your favorite ship. Use a UMmu to command the opening/closing of the doors.

Animated "Mining" train on the south side of the base.

5 Factories which can produce 5 different types of UCGO cargo. (south of base)

Lighted Pad indicator, each free pad has a white circle that becomes orange when the pad is busy. (see at night for better effect)

Real local light that illuminates the landing area/ship. Using Orbiter's opening launchpad, you must check the "local light" feature. On DX 7 even the ground is lit, on DX9 this feature seem missing but the landed ships will still be illuminated at night.

Blinking lights everywhere, so ships don't collide with a building at night.

Climatisation smoke exhaust coming from differents areas. You can command them with a switch. (If you can find it ;) )

On one of a building's side you have a "touristic" lift that goes up and down from time to time.

Somewhere around the base you have some crash scenery used in one of the scenarios. ("save the idiots")

4 New UCGO cargos types, two can spawn a rover, a 3rd cargo contains sausages (private author's joke) and the last one contains sexy clothes. (see mission "Tidy Up")

5 news UCGO cars

Wheels dust (ONLY with UCGO 3.0)

AI traffic (high altitude also with trail)

Lots of animated things

12 command switches for lights, animations etc. etc.

Factories that really produce UCGO cargos

The Real Orcus Patera on Mars

Orcus Patera is a region on the surface of the planet Mars. It is a depression about 380 km long, 140 km wide, and about 0.5 km (500 meters) deep but with a relatively smooth floor. It has a rim of up to 1.8 km high. Orcus Patera is west of Mons Olympus and east of Elysium Mons. It is about half-way between those two volcanoes, and to the north east of Gale crater.

In the past it has experienced aeolian processes and has some small craters and graben structures. It is not known, however, how the patera originally formed. Theories include volcanic, tectonic, or cratering events.

Mars Express observed this region in 2005, yielding a digital terrain model and color pictures. [Credit wikipedia]

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Learn how to use Orcus Patera

Well, that cannot be more simpler, simply run all of the "What's cool - learn Orcus" scenarios ( included ) and read the descriptions

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About Authors

Well has been an Orbiter addon designer since 2004. A truely great graphics and 3d models designer, he had the idea of Orcus Patera addon and made almost all the meshes and textures of the original addon. You can retrieve his other stunning addons on the Pappy's Hangar here

You can contact Well here

DanSteph has been a leading Orbiter addon designer since 2002. He was in charge of all the programing, some details, the scenarios, quality control and the english documentation. You can retrieve his other stunning addons on the Dan's Orbiter page

You can contact DanSteph here

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Links

OrbiterSound 4.0 download page:OrbiterSound 4.0
UCGO 2.5 download page:UCGO 2.5 (3.0 version soon)
DeltaGliderIV download page:DeltaGliderIV
DX9 graphic client:DX9 download thread
DX11 graphic client:DX11 download thread

Addons of the francophone community: Pappy's Hangar
Forum of the francophone community: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/

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Thanks, credit and license

Thanks

Thanks, of course, to Martin for his wonderful simulator and thanks to the whole Orbiter community for the support and friendliness.

License

Orcus Patera 1.0 is freeware, like Orbiter. It is forbidden to make any money from it in any manner, cd distribution etc. It is forbidden to distribute Orcus Patera.

Standard disclaimers also apply.

Happy flying!

Well & DanSteph 2013

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