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Starting your First Sim
Connor Jakubik edited this page Jan 2, 2024
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Installing Space Teams → Starting your First Sim |
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Written by Connor Jakubik
- Open
SpaceCRAFT/SpaceCRAFT.exe
- Log in to your account
- Click
Demos
on the top right - Click on
Solar System Explorer
- Click
Start Demo
in the bottom right
After some loading time, you should see the Earth from above, exactly how it should look if you were in space right now (besides the cloud coverage). The entire solar system is explorable in this demo.
NOTE: This sim by default has raytracing off. You can experience it with full fidelity raytraced shadows by going
Sim
->Singleuser
->SearchSolarSystemExplorer
->ClickSC_Demos/SolarSystemExplorer.json
.
- Press
Tab
to cycle between view modes - Click the
Help
button on the top bar to display controls for the spectator pawn (the entity you are inhabiting). - Many of the UI elements have tooltips that explain more when hovered.
- The camera controls are visible by default in the top right.
- Using the scrollbar or number input, set
EV
to about 15.3 for proper Earth daytime exposure.
- Using the scrollbar or number input, set
- If you leave the local area of a planet / moon, your pawn motion will be unconstrained from that planet.
- This means you can rotate any direction (including rolling). When you can rotate any direction, you still have a "rotation origin" that is used as your "straight ahead" direction, and pitching the camera near 90 degrees up or down from that will result in the
- Your velocity is now tied to solar system barycenter instead of the planet; the planet may leave you behind, especially at high timescale.
- Time control is done with
,
,.
, and/
.- These are used for what their shift-keys would do. The
,
has a<
on it, so it slows timescale down. The.
has a>
on it, so it speeds timescale up. -
/
freezes and unfreezes the simulation (freeze sets timescale to0.0x
, and unfreeze sets it to its most recent non-zero value). - If timescale is
0.0x
, pressing,
will change timescale to0.001x
, and pressing.
will change timescale to1.0x
. - If sim time matches real-life time within ~2 seconds of margin,
Realtime
will show in place of the timescale. - Pressing
RAlt
-,
will force time to flow negative, andRAlt
-.
will force time to flow positive.
- These are used for what their shift-keys would do. The
Post screenshots in the Discussions section of this repository!
- Find your home town
- Look at one of our Earth sites with high fidelity data:
- Grand Canyon
- Mt Everest
- Hawaii
- Look at the Earth city lights at nighttime
- Watch the sun set over the mountains
- Look away from bright objects and see the stars and milky way (low EV and 40-degree FOV help)
- Find the moon in the sky, go to it
- Look at one of our Moon sites with high fidelity data:
- South Pole
- Apollo 15 & 17 landing sites
- Go to the other planets
- The outer planets will require lowering EV to see them; they're far from the sun!
- Mars points of interest:
- Gale Crater (Curiosity)
- Jezero Crater (Perseverance & Ingenuity)
- Valles Marineris
- Olympus Mons