Recent content by vchamp

It would be nice to be able to select a launch direction, northern or southern, for the launch autopilot, in addition to a target orbit inclination.

Wow, booster catch worked at the first attempt! I am speechless and super impressed! It is one of the coolest, if not the coolest, stuff I've seen in Orbiter. Brian, your addons just keep getting better and exceed my expectations.

Does anyone have a scenario for Perseverance EDL?

High quality addon! Thanks for making it! I almost feel like I am in a real Dragon when in the virtual cockpit. And 3d models are absolutely beautiful. The attention to small details is impressive, e.g. I like how windows are highly reflective but at the same time you can see through them. What...

Do you know any autopilot that can be used to maintain/change altitude, position, orientation of tail sitters? I tried Hover MFD but it doesn't work with Starship. Are there higher resolution textures for Boca Chica area? I copied contents of EarthHi_10_07.zip to Orbiter folder, but it is still...

Awesome, that fixed the problem!

Thanks, Brian. Tried it, no crash. So the mesh is ok. Looks great BTW, very good model and textures.

This is the log with only Orbiter base package and Starship Mk1 installed. When I start another scenario without a crash then the log seems to be the same. **** Orbiter.log 000000.000: Build Aug 28 2016 [v.160828] 000000.000: Timer precision: 3.20724e-007 sec 000000.000: Found 0 joystick(s)...

Does it work for everyone? I get crashes when start a Starship scenario or add Starship in scenario editor, with the default graphics client or D3D9ClientR3.10. All other modules are disabled. Orbiter.log doesn't have error messages.

It's almost as exciting as the real Starship. Does the mesh also have landing legs? It would be great if you could share your work in progress, preferably via a git repository.

Thank you for the kind permission and for making this lovely spaceship, really appreciate it. So far in my testing the instability wasn't critical. If some problems occur during further testing then I'll probably follow your advice.

It took me a while to finish the damage model, and finally here's the update. What's new: - Parachute may fail if dynamic pressure is above 12 kPa (depends on the current vessel mass). I don't know if the airspeed should also be considered, it's now possible to open parachute at the beginning...

Update: - Made it self-orient in the direction of airflow by using a variable drag element. Now Ares tends to orient with heat shield first during atmospheric entry. But it is also less stable during high-speed ascent in atmosphere. - Heat shield produces lift, it is possible now to change...

If I understand correctly capsules tend to orient themselves to the needed orientation, however not because of their shapes but because of their CoG position. It seems that this is not simulated in Orbiter and the only way to achieve this is by changing aerodynamic properties. Please correct me...

Trying to figure out how to make the capsule orient its z axis along the airflow during reentry. The first question is: Do real capsules have stable orientation so that their heat shield is perpendicular to the speed vector just by having that characteristic shape? Or this orientation must...