thermocalc
Active member
Hi BrianJ,
I installed your latest version of the “crewdragon2022_230210”, and I was doing the “inspiration4” mission…but I am experiencing “weird” effects, which I don’t know if they are due to some lack of knowledge to operate the crafts, or some files are missing/corrupted…here are my issues.
Thank you for any help/suggestion.
In the meanwhile, I will try the DM2 mission and see if I get also there these weird effects...
I installed your latest version of the “crewdragon2022_230210”, and I was doing the “inspiration4” mission…but I am experiencing “weird” effects, which I don’t know if they are due to some lack of knowledge to operate the crafts, or some files are missing/corrupted…here are my issues.
- During lunch, either pressing V or setting the lift-off time the crew arm access doesn’t swing back to parking position, the clamps holding the rocket doesn’t open and the gantry structure doesn’t move back (see the 2 screenshots); however, if before launch, I switch focus on the launch pad I can get all animations working by manual pressing the bottoms as described in the Falcon9 pdf manual (G, M, K, V, B, N) ; I also tried to “attach the falcon” using P and entering “Falcon9” when asked in the window, and in this manner, once focus back to the falcon9 vessel, opening the launch control window by K, I saw that I was able to open the clamps and move back the tower using the push button under “hardback gantry” label (I installed the spaceX launch pad LC39C add-on). Is it normal like this (even during an automatic launch)? Has the crew access arm to be removed manually? as well as the lowering of the hardback gantry?
- Strange things happens also while I am on orbit: the PeA keep slowly decreasing even if I don’t have enabled the non-spherical gravity sources, I manually adjusted the orbit to 584.4 x 584.3 for example, but after two full orbits the PeA drop to approx. 580 with minor changes in the ApA as well … is this normal? atmospheric drag?
- More annoying is the fact that every time I save a scenario (to save, normally I open the scenario editor, click save, entering the name, and click ok), upon reloading it I always get a CTD (see scenario attached and orbiter log file when this happened); I “can open” your default scenarios from the inspiration4 folder instead!
- I re-started the mission 3 times now with always the same results, cannot save without causing a CTD upon reloading, but in my last try of today, upon separating the crew dragon I got another weird effect, cannot open the nose cone, either by using the crewdragonMFD left selection keys or using the B key (however, if I use the B key I saw the text in the HUD change from close to open, but the status was not updated in the MFD), and no animation outside (the scenario attached is the one where I faced these issues)
Thank you for any help/suggestion.
In the meanwhile, I will try the DM2 mission and see if I get also there these weird effects...