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I used the "Create a Solar System" tutorial at that link about a year ago to do a mock 61 Virginis system and found the tutorial to be very helpful when it came to dealing with textures. -- Mike

With Squad Leader it's even very easy to play by email using VSQL. Most of us who play do so by email with online sessions being more a special treat when people are free at the same time. Check out the VSQL module some time and drop me a PM if it looks interesting. -- Mike

Due to a move I'm no longer in my D&D group, but have often played that. Right now Squad Leader (not Advanced) gets a good bit of my attention, even online using VSQL. If I could take the time to relearn the ruleset, I'd even be interested in getting back into Rise and Decline of the Third Reich.

The first time I tried out the DG-IV I undocked from the ISS without having closed the airlock doors. That was a long time ago, and I thought I'd learned my lesson. Months later, however, the first time I tried out the XR2 I also undocked from the ISS without having closed the airlock doors...

Interceptor, I don't have the "Celestrium3" vessel installed to look at it specifically. However, in general, you can add xpdr and docking port IDS by editing the config file for the vessel. As an example, I'm looking at one of Greg Burch's habitat modules that I modified at some point in the...

If you're using one of the Proton launch vehicles that comes with the Velcro package, then that launch vehicle uses the Velcro modules. You can only have one module associated with a vehicle, so the Generic Station module can't be used with such vehicles without the vehicle losing all of its...

Thanks for posting the pics and glad you enjoyed your trip. I visited KSC for the first time just about two months ago while visiting family and I thought it was a great experience as well. -- Mike

Another technique you might try. Assume the value you wish to convert is stored in "orig_lon" and your converted value in "lon", then this should work (purely psuedo-code, translate into your language of choice). If I've made a mistake here, someone just yell at me: lon = (( orig_lon + 180 )...

First, well done for doing the Advanced Maths. Now, as for some advice I might offer, I focused on one thing you said: I hear that a lot. Sometimes that can indicate that a student is focused on the wrong objective. You say that you cannot "remember how to do a particular question." This...

I noticed the patch available at OH does not include the patched dll files which came with the original. From the readme contained in the archive: The two modules mentioned here should be those for Epimetheus and Janus, which both should reside in the Modules directory of the archive...

It is possible that iV reads non-zero, even after a successful burn, due to the fact that oV and iV do not take gravity effects into account while overall dV does. From page 3 of the IMFD v5.3 documentation: No doubt someone else will have a better explanation, but this would explain the...

Chapman to 1 Ceres Just a shot I took earlier today as I passed a Chapman Inner1 Probe within 30km of asteroid 1 Ceres. I happened to notice there was a good launch date for the asteroid coming up on 19 May 2011 with arrival on 22 November 2012 so I decided to fly it. I launched the probe...

Found an answer myself so thought I'd post the info in case anyone else is interested. My answer came from the Orbiter SDK docs when I looked up the definition of Vessel::CreateThruster() From there it is apparent that max thrust is expected to indicate maximum vacuum thrust rating. Coupled...

Hi, all. I'm in the process of modifying a Spacecraft3 style launcher and couldn't find an answer to my question in the S3 docs. Hopefully someone else might have some information. For the MAIN_THRUST setting of this launcher I'm obtaining my values from Lockheed-Martin documentation...

I agree with one of the previous replies -- an automated docking can be very useful for those who are just starting out with Orbiter. When I first started with Orbiter, I learned to dock (after many failed attempts) by watching how the DG-IV docking autopilot did it. I haven't used an...

Unfortunately, not likely. All of that Mir's functionality comes from the Spacecraft3 module, so if you changed it over to the StationUCGO module, you'd lose all the other features of the vessel. The only way it would really work would be for me to completely recreate Spacecraft3, or for some...

Hi, Ben. If you really wish to just modify the one scenario, then you can add this: IDS 0:540 100to the particular building block ship section in the scenario file. However, you can edit the config file for the building block vessel so that its docking ports always have a given frequency...

A module to add basic UMMU and UCGO support to station vessels which do not have their own modules.  Examples are the default Mir and Wheel stations as well as Greg Burch's Building Blocks Hab modules. Compiled with the free MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, so you may need the Microsoft...

StationUCGO -- a generic vessel module to add UMMU and UCGO support to orbital stations. I wanted a way to make use of UMMU and UCGO with my custom-built station, so I started work on it. It didn't take long to realize that I could probably make the module pretty generic so that's what I tried...

Atlas-V 522 on the first launch of my station building project. It was early morning leaving WAI carrying the main hab module and I managed to get this one shot. -- Mike