Hi Artlav - awesome work!
About dual stars, IIRC, the location of everything in Orbiter is indexed off of the sun. You could add another "star" as a big planet I suppose, but one will have to be the "real" sun for location purposes. Also, dual star systems will not orbit their barycenter.
Hmm, unless you could make an invisible "star" at the barycenter, then have the two visible "stars" be planets that look like stars orbit that. But then all the planets would orbit the barycenter - not sure how that would work. I am guessing that almost certainly you would have unstable orbits, which Orbiter would not know about.
There is a gravity simulator around that one of the Orbinauts wrote - you could test generation algorithms against that.
http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/what.html
Most binary systems are pretty far apart, though, I think. You could make the companion star out pretty far and say that it is too far to affect the planets.
Good luck!
About dual stars, IIRC, the location of everything in Orbiter is indexed off of the sun. You could add another "star" as a big planet I suppose, but one will have to be the "real" sun for location purposes. Also, dual star systems will not orbit their barycenter.
Hmm, unless you could make an invisible "star" at the barycenter, then have the two visible "stars" be planets that look like stars orbit that. But then all the planets would orbit the barycenter - not sure how that would work. I am guessing that almost certainly you would have unstable orbits, which Orbiter would not know about.
There is a gravity simulator around that one of the Orbinauts wrote - you could test generation algorithms against that.
http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/what.html
Most binary systems are pretty far apart, though, I think. You could make the companion star out pretty far and say that it is too far to affect the planets.
Good luck!