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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. 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
- 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
- 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