OGLAClient

Project home: http://orbides.1gb.ru Author: Artyom "Artlav" Litvinovich Current version: Unknown Compatibility: Unknown

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Terrain and atmosphere

OGLAClient: Over the Lv11 Earth

Inside Saturn's ring

OGLAClient: Over the terrain

NASSP Apollo on the Moon

Lunar ambient

The sun and the Earth

OGLAClient is an OpenGL Orbiter Visualization Project Graphic client

Status

Periodically developed. Been declared playable by some users and good enough for a sudden Orbiter release, if you have Nvidia GPU.

Latest development version is 090322, available at OF.

Currently working on:

• Solving ATI red devil bug
• Better atmosphere
• Cleaning up shadows and reflections
• Real rings rendering
• Multilight improvements

Currently thinking on:

• Better terrain
• Memory and LOD fine-tuning
• Getting the rings real-looking
• Dynamic textures
• Multilight config framework
• More natural reflections

What is done:

• Quite a lot
• Navigable universe
• Vessel mesh rendering sans animations
• Planet rendering Lv 0-14
• Surface base rendering and culling
• Planetary meshes, mostly complete
• Terrain and atmospheric shade
• Basic rings
• Beyound Orbiter - stars
• Panels, glass cockpit
• Vessel animations

Known bugs/issues (090322)

• ATI GPU's red devil bug
• Either slow or imprecise shadows
• Few MFD's supported
• Fonts look bad

Links

Current development thread