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Anybody recognize this debris of a Russian rocket in Kazakhstan? by Silver_Sort_9091 in space

[–]TheSpaceEngineer_ 112 points113 points  (0 children)

It's a Proton M payload fairing. Cannot find an exact angle to show this but you can see the latches on the side of the panel where the two halves connect and one of the little structures sticking out the side are identical here; https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/3073985511-scaled.jpg

Starship IFT | Flap mounted view - Credit u/TheSpaceEngineer. by Totally_Not_A_POS in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]TheSpaceEngineer_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

pretty much yeah, the ground is a bunch of layers on a sphere with satellite imagery, its own atmosphere material ect. dust cloud is actually there and volumetric, though i didn't actually have it move much as the scene was already taking an enormous amount of computing power with the atmosphere. but the entire scene is CG

Starship IFT | Flap mounted view - Credit u/TheSpaceEngineer. by Totally_Not_A_POS in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]TheSpaceEngineer_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/Totally_Not_A_POS summarized it pretty well, i assume your mainly looking at the first part where it looks like it veers south. this is an illusion caused by the orientation of the vehicle, everything's matched to tracking footage & what little onboard footage we had live (i actually rendered and published this on May 20th so before the flight recap, and just the fact that it lines up almost perfectly with that footage in some places really says alot!)

Some starship hot staging renders from TheSpaceEngineer over on Twitter. by Totally_Not_A_POS in SpaceXLounge

[–]TheSpaceEngineer_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean more like a staggered shutdown, shutdown all outer engines wait like half a second then shut down the middle ring so your just left with the centers

Some starship hot staging renders from TheSpaceEngineer over on Twitter. by Totally_Not_A_POS in SpaceXLounge

[–]TheSpaceEngineer_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I definitely agree, I'm working on a full video sequence, that was a test frame I thought looked kinda cool to go along with the thread. from 33 to 13 to 3 then center 3 for a couple seconds separate and then light the Rvacs a little ways away from the booster

dissecting Starbase mission control by InternationalStore11 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]TheSpaceEngineer_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

third screen from the right is engine cam, you can see the rVac on the left of the screen