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I don't know, after seeing this topic, I immediately went into Orbiter, lifted the DG off from Brighton and got my self into an "orbit" with a re-intercept of the moon's surface roughly 3/4 of the way around from where I was. I may be missing something in the question here, it's late, but I can...

The good news is this time, the main event will start at 3am, that's when the temperature is predicted to reach the freezing line. Even if it's a few hours off, it could hit as early as 10 pm or as late as 6am and people still not be too likely to be stuck or crowding the roads.

For some reason, the buttons I've declared in a vessel page for scenario editor do not work right. The button I have as IDC_BUTTON1 closes the page and goes back to the default vessel page, while the button IDC_BACK does nothing. In my callback function IDC_BUTTON1 has an action, however after...

I had that happen to me today, a car just didn't seem to want to stop when I was at a stop sign. There was ice in the general area, though none under either of our wheels fortunately.

Maverick Sawyer is right. I'll save the bulk of the rebuttaling for the Basement thread as I had really intended this one to be about the current state and to tell everyone those affected are ok.

There are people that left at 14:00 yesterday that still aren't home at 14:00 today. That's a disaster. As I said, I'll go into the details in the basement later because it's effectively a manmade (politician-made) disaster.

Don't know if anyone else has heard about the disaster that has struck the Southeastern United States, but I thought I would create a topic so those of us in the area can let the community know we're ok. Ill put a topic in the basement later about the causes of this since that gets highly...

If you sit down and work at it, I bet you could get a basic .dll vessel programmed in a weekend. Years down the road, you would probably look at your old code and might have the urge to defenestrate your computer, but if it works, it doesn't matter! Orbiter makes things fairly simple for...

This looks great, lots of information! However, I'm a little unsure how to use it to actually reach a GEO target with this.

I glanced at weather.com on a whim, and one of the front page stories was "Never Before Seen Photos of the Challenger Disaster." I'll simply leave them here without further comment: http://www.weather.com/news/science/never-seen-photos-challenger-disaster-20140117

Um, I apologize for asking such a simple question, but we all miss the obvious from time to time, but have you enabled local light sources in the visual effects tab?

Ok, package on OrbitHangar has been updated with the fixed module and new scenarios.

Thanks Izack! I discovered the first one shortly after I uploaded the package, just forgot to call SetAnimation at the beginning. The latter problem though, I had trouble tracking it down, and my solutions weren't working...and then they were so I'm not 100% sure what I did and that worries me...

This has now been updated to v0.7 and includes the radiator and solar trusses.

Some of you know my story (mostly the IRC regulars) and I won't rehash it, but suffice to say, the past five years have been pretty bad for me in all kinds of ways personally. Until tonight, 2014 was shaping up to be no different. But things started falling into place for some reason this...

Happy New Year! I just have to share a bit of good news. 2013 (and most of the last 5 years) has been really bad for me. But I head into 2014 on a high note. Earlier today, I cracked how to synchronize solar panels and their cap for my truss system (see the scissors mechanism topic). Now, with...

My final solution ended up being simpler than I was trying to make it. Instead of grabbing the position of the panel, I end up calculating it. If anyone else needs this, here's the solution. I use half-panels at each end in order to space the main panels, as well as centering them vertically. I...

Thanks Thorsten and Loru. Thorsten, I'm still a little lost with your calculations. I'll keep trying but for now I've decided to link the cap animation to the panel animation by keeping track of its position. However, that's led to another issue. The problem is that the cap animation lags behind...

I've run into a slight problem creating some solar arrays. Like the ISS arrays, the panels themselves are accordion-folded and they have a "cap" that translates away from the storage boxes. My problem is synchronizing the cap and panels, since the panels gain their linear distance by unfolding...