Apollo Application Project for Orbiter (AAPO): Alpha ReleaseÂ
The intent of this project is to balance a historically accurate simulation of the Apollo spacecraft in Orbiter with accessibility and ease of play. In addition to the historical missions and spacecraft of NASA's Apollo era AAPO will also models the various Apollo follow-on projects of the 1968 Apollo Hardware Applications Program.
Installation:
Unzip the archive into your Orbiter root folder, making sure that sub-directories are enabled. If you downloaded the initial "Early Alpha" I strongly reccomend installing this release on a clean orbiter install, or at the very least deleting your existing AAPO files as several filenames and paths have been changed.
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CAUTION:Â This is a Alpha release, many features have yet to be implimented and there is no guarantee that those that have been implimented will function as advertised. Install at your own risk.New in this release:Â 20 May 2013
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All vessels recomplied in "Release" config.
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Many Bug fixes for CSM, UCGO and propellant management now initializes properly.
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2 Additional scenarios. Launch, and Lunar Landing.
Acknowledgements:
The Author would like to thank the following...
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Moach, Jedia, Glider, Wishbone, N_molson, Bigmac, and FrancisDrake for graciously allowing me to exploit their knowledge, code samples, and addon assets.
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Urwumpe, Face, Orb and everyone else on on the Orbiter SDK forums who has put up with my incesant questions about the Orbiter API and C++ in general.
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Tschachim and the rest of the NASSP developement team for being an invaluable research source.
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Max Grueter on the google Sketchup forums, and Mesapilgrim on BlendSwap who's Hi-Res Astronaut and Spacecraft models were used as reference while creating my own.Â
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4throck for his support, feedback, and 2D artistry.
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Grover for his assistance with documentation and general testing.
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Loru for designing the AAPO Project Patch.
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Vlad32768 for his excellent Blender import/export utility.
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Professor Martin Schweiger, and the Orbiter Development Team for giving us all such a cool sandbox to play in.