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Full VR mode doesn’t work with EL3D, but cinema and immersive screen modes do. Immersive screen mode gives a view similar to what you’d get looking from inside an EVA helmet as a comparison.
EL3D view modes.
Cockpit modes 1,2,3 and virtual cockpit mode 1 all work in VR, but the lunar surface appears to be at the same level or height as the bottom of the triangular windows, which spoils the flying experience . Virtual cockpit 2 allows you to look round the cockpit using your flight joystick to pan up, down, left and right.
The external spot views 1 and 2 are very good, allowing you to zoom in and out from the spacecraft.
The orbital docked and rendezvous views are also good, especially cockpit mode 3 where you’re looking through the COAS and docking window.
EVA is probably the best for VR immersion, again you have the ‘helmet’ perspective, but once you start backing out of the LM hatch, the size and scale of the LM are apparent. Lunar modules are big!
Looking over the edges of West crater and a visit to Surveyor 3 are also impressive, but the landscape at the Apollo 15 site is the winner. The mountains in the background and looking down Hadley rille blows flat screen views away.
Understandably, running EL3D v2.15 within vorpX and a VR headset, the resolution and clarity does take a bit of a hit, but for a now 10year old simulator it’s not bad.
Nice! You should tell draku about this. He’s been asking about it this past month. See post.
I’ve seen it and it looks amazing. It’s very easy to get caught up in science and space exploration. Videos and tutorials on how to get the best out of the sim
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as it is unstable and sometimes has issues.
The sim is now free for versions 2.12 and 2.15@ draku1t0n Just yesterday ive finished a 3D Profile for the Lander, read here
Wow! thanks for putting the effort in. I wasn’t sure if the sim was too old to even work with VorpX, hence the first post.
Looks like I’m going to be spending a lot more time in VR. Cheers.
This is running on old dx8? I can’t launch the program because of missing dx8vb.dll. Probly need RJK, he’s done some dx8 games.
Version 2.12 of the sim is very old and runs dx8
Version 2.15 is a bit newer and runs dx9I could be wrong, but doesn’t that site say that it has native VR already? Not sure you even need vorpX for that.
There is a VR version in the pipeline, but it will be the short P66 flight released in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.