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AND THERE IT IS! - the bucket of shame has been dropped! :rant: congratulations M$ - you have shot yourselves in the foot so hard it blew off your whole leg and with that - Flight dies a horrible death while still in the womb.... this absolutely proves my most dire concerns were true -...

that's exactly what the voices in my head keep saying.... this whole "pay for content" scheme feels very much greedy and prone to end up being a way to have us shelling out heavy bucks for what once was an integral part of the experience.... if they go that way - i'm not following.... M$ be...

from what i gather, their so called "freemium" business model is basically a demo with more relaxed restrictions.... i wonder how user-end addons will be supported -- for me that's the make-or-break point, no addons, no buy :nono: tho i suspect they wouldn't dare be THAT thick as to limit or...

i think it should pay for itself over a small number of launches.... with the ground support fully set, a G42 mission would cost something closer to the operating cost of an airlner (actually, more like a handful of them combined) than that of a shuttle launch.... plus, like the skylon, it...

i don't expect my fuel assumptions to hold, really... i think it's safe to say that ain't good 'ole hydrogen in those tanks, that's for sure :rolleyes: i did use a few settings on the higher than the best currently available side.... but not so far as to be "magic" that doesn't mean it's an...

well, this design was indeed based on some tripped-out crossbreed betwen the concorde, the XB-70 valkyrie and the skylon.... i figured that's what a spaceplane would end up looking like.... i wanted it realistic, so i parted from the initial DG-based concept and started pretty much from scratch...

well, got the lights all set out now - turns out there WAS a way to do it without reinventing the wheel... good thing i decided to ask before going any further down crazy avenue :rolleyes: i still have plenty more lights to add - tho most of them don't really move from now on... and i wanna...

right on! - that hit the nail right on the head :thumbup: didn't know we could do that, very convenient :rolleyes: thanks, man! - that was great help :cheers:

quick question... is there any straightforward way to reuse the transforms for animating mesh parts to transform simple vectors as well? i need this to reposition the wingtip navigation and strobe lights on my G42-200, which has wings that are capable of hinging up and down... can it be done...

well, legally i'm not married yet (coming soon) - but for all practical effects, me and my GF live together as if we were indeed so :hmm: yet every now and then i can secure me some "able time" (i call it that to distinct it from often unusable "free time") - and get some stuff done on the...

a general flying tip - unless you're planning on spending some extra time in turbine-powered low speed flight (a plane intercept leg, or ATC clearance maybe), you can safely take off with a less than full main tank also, without any cargo, you could even do without a full oxidizer load as well...

well, happy new year! :cheers: that was a mostly decent approximately-full orbit of our little ball of rock 'round the sun.... but i hope the next kludgefully stretched one will be even better - so best wishes to all and may the probe be with you on every reentry :thumbup:

well, then you're in luck - computers are pretty good at basic math :thumbup: if you wanna have something at half way across horizontally and one third vertically, all you have to do is set x to half the width of the display and y to the height times .3333333 there's no need to call any...

My condolences, RIP Voyager :salute: i've experienced death in the family a few years back (grandfather) - and i can tell you, it's something i would not wish for anyone :( deepest sympathies, to all who knew him closely :flowers:

i'd like to think someday most of those switches will have some effect, or at least look like they actually do something :hmm: well, more on the news side -- as of today, all the eicas screens can be toggled on/off and can be set to any of 12 display modes - the config of all six panels is...

thanks! :thumbup: speaking of functionality, i did just get the eicas screens (Engine Instrument and Crew Alert System) panels to switch between different display pages :woohoo: that was the biggest hurdle the project would require in short term - mostly because i didn't know exactly how i'd...

well, thanks! :thumbup: it makes my day when i see ppl are having a good time flying it - i mean, that's what i made it for (and to get some hands-on C++ practice going) :rolleyes: anyways - next release should feature a more concise engines simulation, one that keeps true to a...

minor progress report.... APU now consumes fuel - i'm underway to actually having it serve a purpose higher than the "just noise" currently featured :hmm: ramcaster pumps are no longer electrically driven, (switch has been repurposed to "fuel transfer" function) - ramcaster fuel is now...

alright - guess who is off the clock up 'til the monday after new year? :thumbup: came in a good time too.... you know, even we mad-scientist game programmers need a break every now and then (which ironically, i seem to spend programming things for games :shifty:) so yesterday, i did...

i should probably post up some pics of my newly-arrived lil' critter.... the only thing is i only have a couple of shots of her being asleep - since photographing puppies (with phone-camera, to make things worse) while they're awake only yields useless blurred images... when i get a decent one...