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Thank you, I will! There will be V3 coming out later in the year, I need to concentrate on SpacePort.
Your passes - do they let you in the VAB or on the launch pads??
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MSFS20 Kennedy Space Center Scenery for MSFS2020
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Your passes - do they let you in the VAB or on the launch pads??
No. The bus tour only drives by the VAB. In one of my visits years ago, the bus took us all the way to one of the launch pads.
Are you planning on modeling the Saturn V center? I have plenty of pictures of that. Is the visitor complex the one that Microsoft modeled a few years ago?
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Aha. In 2018, I also took a bus tour, but they only drove by the VAB and took us to the beach site, right next to the Pad A. Also went to the Saturn V center, spectacular. We didn't cover the visitor complex at all, what you see is MS default, unless there is someone's add on scenery that covers it.
For now, no touristy attractions
... We have more pressing items to include, like interior of VAB, SpaceX hardware, and improvements to infrastructure, buildings, some nice details (working launch clock at press center), and perhaps some new functionality.Funny thing, several customers are current NASA employees, and they are in touch with me, commenting how accurate and "trippy" the scenery is. They go and visit it virtually after work. One individual told me he found something in our scenery he didn't know existed, went to check it IRL, and sure enough it was there.
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These words sound like music to my ears
hopefully we will see the Boosters returns 
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As always - stunning!!!
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LOVE the effect!! Mastery! Although - right where the stream starts, it looks more like steam than water.Here is a video of the full motion and effect crawlerway water truck, used for dust control. Still some tweaking to do, but overall, a nice touch!
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Here is a short, annotated video of WIP for SpacePort. We inserted cool RCS thruster effects, and implemented rough collision objects. Our test subject is Capt. Sim's Shuttle Orbiter, so, since we don't have the model, we had to kind of guess where the collision areas are (hence the imprecision in some places)
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This is simply breathtaking. I had to double take to see if it is NASA footage. Truly impressive and ground breaking - if you pull off launch and re-entry, you will have a winner.
Can anything be done with the cloud cover?
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That looks really cool!
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Ah yes... the cloud cover. in MSFS2020, the cloud cover is limited to an area around the user aircraft. Ordinarily this works for atmospheric flying. However, from orbit, with unlimited visibility, this manifests as a patch of clouds beneath the spacecraft, on an otherwise cloudless Earth. I will try and experiment with some cloud texture "tiles" dynamically inserted at an appropriate altitude, but I am not sure how far away they can be displayed before the visibility is turned off.
MSFS2024 is much better in that respect, as there appear to be clouds rendered and visible from orbital heights, although they are not very realistic - they appear as fluffy clumps.
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Ladies and gents… Introducing TerraBuilder SpacePort 
You are looking at Captain Sim’s Space shuttle, docked to a space station consisting of 16 modular objects, dynamically spawned at Mach 27, and hard-connected into a rigid unit, using our spaceflight physics engine.
We are polishing up assets, and we will make a formal announcement soon - but for now, enjoy this sneak peek!
You are looking at Captain Sim’s Space shuttle, docked to a space station consisting of 16 modular objects, dynamically spawned at Mach 27, and hard-connected into a rigid unit, using our spaceflight physics engine.
We are polishing up assets, and we will make a formal announcement soon - but for now, enjoy this sneak peek!
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What the.... ? What am I looking at? This is absolutely incredible 
This is static, right? No way you have this whole thing moving...
This is static, right? No way you have this whole thing moving...