Recent content by MattNW

Look into this device. Concentrate on the light. Now, you saw nothing. Nothing at all.

Because 7Zip doesn't cost anything and I'm a big cheapskate. :) I finally had to do it though and WinRAR worked fine (I just didn't want to spend $30 right now). Glad to get this ship working it's beautiful and it's atmospheric flight dynamics are great. Just a little bigger than the DG and...

More download problems. I downloaded the .zip file with both Firefox and IExplorer and got corrupted files. I downloaded the .rar files and only the 1st one was valid. All 35 others were only 1.9mb and 7Zip reported errors in all of them. I also noticed that .rar file 02 was a copy of the .pdf...

Don't need all that fancy software. Wait until you are at a reasonable altitude reduce your rate of descent to near 0 then hit the "Hold Altitude" AP. Once you become stabilized turn it off and reduce hover thrust a little with the {.} key on your number pad. Adjust your rate of descent using...

@ICBM, It's an old joke. Whenever anyone asks when the next version of Orbiter will be released the answer is always "Tuesday". :lol: Martin doesn't announce when the next version will be ready for release. When most of the bugs are worked out and it seems stable then he will release it not a...

Another tutorial you might find useful is Trevor John's Tutorial. You can find it on the same site you downloaded Orbiter Sound. Look at the bottom of the download page on Dan's site. It sounds like you are trying to circularize your orbit a little too early. Wait until a few seconds before...

It sounds like you are coming in too low and slow. There are two totally worthless things in unpowered landings. Those are altitude above you and runway behind you. Unpowered landing is a trade off of altitude vs airspeed. Run out of either one too soon and you won't be going home tonight. I...

I haven't though as much about any of the other points you are discussing but having a more MSFS style installation of add ons would be a big step forward. Despite the advice to make texture and mesh names unique a lot 0f add ons still try to overwrite others. That's why I don't like just...

Here's a method I use. First hit the "L" key to level the craft to the horizon. Look for the "+" and center that in your HUD. Now about a kilometer or less above the ground hit the "A" key (hold altitude). As soon as the hold altitude is stable hit the "A" key again to turn off the hold altitude...

It's been argued before on the old M6 forum. Personally I don't care. Everyone's sim is their private business. If you want to make something that blows up then I'm all for it. If someone doesn't like it they don't have to download and install it. Sometimes I like to blow something up. Makes for...

You can also deliver fuel to the ISS. Carry a fuel tank cargo in the DGIV and dock it to the ISS like mentioned above then use Fuel Management MFD to transfer fuel to the ISS for refueling ships.

I generally get to the point where I say Newtonian physics when I see their eyes glaze over and they start mumbling, "Uh huh", after every other word I speak. If they are still around when I start talking about orbital mechanics they usually go-- :suicide: :lol:

That would definitely work. I'd love to see a CD with Orbiter on it handed out to every kid who attends Space Camp. That would be getting it out to the specific people who can appreciate it but as a retail PC or console game at Wall Mart Orbiter would go bust. The general gamer crowd just...

I agree. Too much thinking involved for the mass market "gamer" crowd. Orbiter would make a terrible retail sim for the very reason most of us here love it. I think this sim is better kept like it is for those who want something realistic.

I've been trying to make a new star system. I got the star and planet working OK but when trying to add a moon I get a blank sphere with no textures. My texture is OK and named properly but for some reason when I run my scenario the moon is a white sphere and when I use the Orbiter camera it has...