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There is of course no such unit as "kilograms force". A kilogram is a unit of mass. A Newton is a measure of force. It should not be possible to confuse the two, which is a major advantage of SI. Unlike, say, some other systems, where the "multiply by 32.2 error" is all too common. And it...

A cloaked BCF! I never would have thought of that. I also wouldn't have thought the power curve would support 4 photons and a cloak, but again, as long as we're editing the shiplist anyway....

The SCS is beautiful and fun, but like the CAD, you spend all your money on consumables (fighters in this case) all the time. It is a shame, though, because the ship is a joy to fly, and it's just the campaign bookkeeping that pushes me toward energy weapons. Anything that's heavy with photons...

Oh, heck yeah! Great fun! I love the Fed drone cruiser, CAD -- but it's too expensive to feed, alas. I also do SFC-OP, but try to run it mostly as an upgraded SFC2. The Orion pirates themselves and their made-up weapons do not interest me. From SFC-OP, the X-ships and any ISC are great fun...

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Dave Bartlett was going to do an update, then he wasn't, then took it back again to finish his update...and disappeared, as far as I can tell. This was quite some time ago, and I can't find him either.

Actually, you can have as many CVEL payloads as you want. Just keep adding PAYLOAD lines. CVEL payloads assume an orientation, though. To use AMSO's LEM, you need to carry and deploy it rotated by 90 degrees, and CVEL can't do that. Fortunately, treating it as an attach point payload...

Don, I just realized what this was: the core, boosters, and all Velcro vehicles need to be stacked in the same location. If you paste in parts with some in China and others in the cape, weird results will follow. I've only seen lighting issues, but there could be others. But starting...

Sorry I misunderstood the question first time; I thought you wanted to prevent rotation, not create some. Well, at booster separation, Velcro Rockets applies a force for one timestep: VECTOR3 pos, dir, rot; GetAttachmentParams (attachpos[1], pos, dir, rot); AddForce...

From the manual: TIPOFF Normally 1. A multiple of the usual rotation rate upon jettison for sideattached parallel stages. Almost never needed, but I had to set it to 0 for the X-15-Blue Scout scenario to simulate the launching trapeze. So try TIPOFF 0.0

Thank you for that. I see: Dynon D-100 2 x Dynon D-10A AvMap EFIS (All of these do the same thing, which is primary flight display, and/or maybe some engine monitoring). Garmin GTX-327 transponder Garmin SL-30 Nav/Com Garmin GMA 340 audio panel (really? To manage the stereo?) An...

No, no, NO! Where did you get this idea? What Keatah said. Total temperature rise, at the stagnation point only, is on the order of 40C. This is nothing, and the XR-2 heating code IS in error.

Very nice!

Hmm. I'm not sure why it would do that. You could tie the LES to one of the boosters, instead of the core. With appropriate offsets to make it look right. On the other hand, the booster might separate at the point the LES stages, too. Hmm. Another dummy booster, effectively massless and...

Don, There's a one-cycle thrust loss as the LES is jettisoned. I'd think you'd want to delay LES jettison until the boosters separate (120 seconds after core ignition? Seems way early). But, if that's the way you want it, set JETT_ON_MECO 0 for each of the four boosters. That should...

Gattispilot, At a glance, those figures look about correct for horizontal lift. How is it behaving? Keep in mind that the vertical tail on the C-130 is ludicrously oversized for normal flying...it's sized for engine-out operations, which you might not even be modeling. Gentlemen...

Urwumpe, Perhaps I misunderstood, but that sounds like another way of calculating how to position the ball. That's not the problem here; the problem is that, once desired rotation is calculated, we need to apply it to an ADI ball which is a mesh or mesh group.

Actually, I don't see how AddMesh helps you. You can change its position, but not its orientation, that way. My ADI ball is already a separate mesh, and I don't see that it actually helps. I see two possible approaches: 1. Make the ADI ball a separate vessel entirely. Set its...

I've been having the same problem with a project of mine, which is why I've semi-abandoned it. The key problem appears to be, as you've described, the code initially starts properly aligned, then gets misaligned. Exiting and re-starting re-sets everything to aligned. I have not been able to...

Over the runway at Mojave, 2 1/2 hours ago: