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Feb 9^th, 2012 at 1:04pm

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It's the year 2190 and The Virgin Solar Tours "Enterprise XII" has it's maiden voyage.

The passengers are currently enjoying a fly past of the now derelict International Space Station. The ISS being preserved as an International Heritage Site.......Next stop is Jupiters orbital sunset and then onto a fly through of Saturns Rings (the Cassini Run).

P.S. Slight cheat with this pic, I couldn't find a model of Virgin Galactic anywhere so I used the tail fin of the repainted default 747 Cool

.....as some of you probably noticed...........Idea conceived several days ago.

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Reply #1 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 1:39pm

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How did you get the ISS?

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Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 1:47pm

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Sorry, I should of put the links in:

ISS
http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=iss

Custom FS Recorder camera used for camera position.
http://www.fs-recorder.net/downloads.php

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Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 5:17pm

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Sweet Thanks! I guessed you had to slew right? And awesome shot!

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Reply #4 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 4:18am

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Yes, slew mode.

As soon as I saw februarys theme I thought "Virgin Galactic" would be ideal, there are no free models available though . This was the only way I could think of to get the Virgin Logo into orbit.

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Reply #5 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 7:12am

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Awesome shot! How do you get to space in FSX?

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Reply #6 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 8:58am

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^^^^^^^ Read above

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Reply #7 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 9:56am

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REDCIAA wrote on Feb 10^th, 2012 at 7:12am:

Awesome shot! How do you get to space in FSX?

As Blackace indicated, use slew mode. Or Pause and use your map page to alter the altitude to max and then slew to adjust position.

Thanks for your comments Chaps, much appreciated

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Reply #8 - Feb 10^th, 2012 at 12:59pm

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Well Gary, however you got there, I think the image is outstanding. From my perspective, it's well balanced, great colors and chuck full of imagination. Bravo my friend on a great screenshot............. Ziggy

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Reply #9 - Feb 11^th, 2012 at 12:51am

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Nice shot! And I have found that for high-altitude screenshots it's better to use the map-altitude trick to get up there. In slew mode, your craft will still have a trail of the MS vapor-puffs.

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Reply #10 - Feb 11^th, 2012 at 4:41am

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Adrian_Monk wrote on Feb 11^th, 2012 at 12:51am:

Nice shot! And I have found that for high-altitude screenshots it's better to use the map-altitude trick to get up there. In slew mode, your craft will still have a trail of the MS vapor-puffs.

That's what I found. Also I had strange white blobs a bit like snow flakes over the oceans, weird. I discovered that these were reflections of the stars so I had to turn off all water effects.

Thanks good folk for looking

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Reply #11 - Mar 2^nd, 2012 at 8:28am

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This Topic was moved here from The February Screenshot Contest by Fly2e.

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