Recent content by ggalfi

I think so, yes. First, create the config files (see this post above). Then set THC lines in the appropriate config file (either CSM - Thrustmaster T.16000M.cfg.launchpad or LM - Thrustmaster T.16000M.cfg.launchpad) as following: THC Y Axis POV 0H FALSE THC Z Axis POV 0V...

Hi all, @jarmonik made a great improvement in OpenOrbiter to resolve the issue of objects sinking into or floating above the terrain. He also increased the max. lateral resolution with a factor of 8, so from now on the limiting factor is the quality of the original DTMs. You may find the...

I'm not sure about what's going on here. Albeit it is not desirable but a normal behaviour of Orbiter2016 beta - especially when the surface is really uneven - that the visual and physical terrain is inconsistent, sometimes up to a meter or so. On the other hand if earlier it was better for...

Honestly I don't know the answer because I've never got the opportunity to test this situation (I don't have two totally identical devices at home). It practically depends on how DirectInput handles your two Thrustmasters, whether it provides different names for them or not. I suggest to attach...

Yes, it is. Plug both joysticks in, open Project Apollo Configurator, click there on "Create Config Files" button. That will create the appropriate config files in Config\ProjectApollo\Vesim folder, if you have two controllers attached to the computer then there will be four new files created...

It is up to you whether you map the analogue signals of two different joysticks to the rotation and translation controllers' inputs or - as it is given in the config for the VKB Gladiator in the distribution - you can map the analog signal of one stick to the rotation controller, and the buttons...

Not everything which is connected to the USB, but the devices which are supported by Win's DirectInput interface. Practically all the joysticks/controllers which appear in Windows' "USB game controllers" dialog box could be picked up by VESIM.

Wow, that was bullseye :) In the attached scenario if I read out 411 it displays +10000, and your procedure also smoothed this problem for me. I cannot find any step in the Surface Activity Checklist which touches 411, but it could happen that during one of the previous V47s I typed...

@rcflyinghokie: Hi, thanks for looking into this. I was using mostly the documents on this page: https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/a13-documents.html . For the LM I've used the Activation Checklist, Timeline book and the G&N checklist. I wasn't able to find the Lunar Surface Checklist for...

Hi all, I'm flying the nominal Apollo 13 mission, and now I'm at GET135 hours where - to prepare the LM for ascent - the AGS should be updated from the LGC. The problem is that when I do first V47 then set up the new time bias to 130:00:00, call 414+10000 on AGS, and press PRO, then nothing...

In the NASSP repository within the WIP scenarios you may find the "Apollo 13 - Launch and Landing" and "Apollo 13 - Launch" as starting point. The first scenario is to fly the nominal mission, but the second one you'll get the your hard time with the O2 tanks. I'm flying now the nominal mission...

I wasn't able to make it till the 50th anniversary of the last manned lunar mission, but it gave me a good opportunity to give the Orbiter community a nice Christmas present: the Apollo 17 landing site scenery. I think the Taurus-Littrow DTMs provided by the LROC site are the most detailed and...

Hi, I aimed for the 50th anniversary with the Taurus-Litrow stuff, but wasn't able to make it. Partially due to some personal issues (nothing bad, but there are a few things I have to give higher priority than this), and also this specific landing site has some of it's own peculiarities which I...

In a parallel universe, on Apr 17th, 1970, at Fra Mauro highlands: Apollo 13 CDR: Houston, we have a bit of a problem here. Capcom: Go ahead, Jim. Apollo 13 CDR: It may sounds odd, but we've found something of non-natural origin. Capcom: You mean it is some sort of alien origin? Apollo 13 LMP...

Based on this image: https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap08fj/pics/sextant.gif when LLOS and SLOS are pointing into the same direction, the trunnion mirror's normal vector is circa at 45 degrees to SLOS (certainly it depends on the exact orientation of the beam splitter and the prism). What we know...