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Just wanted to ask if anybody has tried the latest update to VS 2019 yet in combination with Orbiter/CMake. After reports that the previous update (16.11.1) broke CMake cache generation, I've held off updating my VS installation. According to the release notes, 16.11.2 addresses that problem...

It's been a while ... Dear Orbiter users and developers, I haven't been around this place in quite some time, and for personal reasons haven't been able to push Orbiter development along for a few years now. In order to keep Orbiter alive and allow others to work on it, I have decided to...

Just to let you know: I am currently migrating the tileedit tool (which allows to visually traverse the planetary texture and elevation quad-trees and has some basic elevation editing capabilities) from Matlab to Qt. The Matlab dependency was always sub-optimal both for developers (Matlab...

And here is the next body to get a makeover: Saturn's moon Hyperion. This one was quite a challenge. Hyperion is an irregularly shaped "potato" of a rock, a fact that, erm, hasn't been very well represented in the current default Orbiter installation :lol:. I found some low-res shape models, but...

With BepiColombo finally underway, I thought it would be a good idea to update the Mercury textures to spruce up Orbiter for any simulated missions. They are available on the highres repository on Orbiter-Radio (other mirrors may pick them up in time). The textures are based on Messenger MDIS...

I am currently updating my Orbiter build toolset from VS2008 to VS2015. While the transition worked surprisingly smoothly in terms of the actual code, I ran into a strange problem with a custom build step that has confounded me all day. I've run out of ideas, so here it is, in case somebody has...

I've been looking at LDoc, a documentation system for Lua that might make writing the reference manual for the Orbiter Lua interface a bit easier. The syntax is somewhat similar to doxygen, and it allows to document not just Lua script functions, but also the C++ source files containing the...

Background: I am currently refactoring the Orbiter core build process, mainly for a clean separation of source, build and deployment directories. Currently it's a bit of a muddle, requiring lots of SVN ignore directives and manual copying. As part of the changed build system, I now have a...

The other day I attended the i-Mars Final Dissemination Event here at UCL (it's nice to find that your Uni shares interest in your hobby ;) ) i-Mars is (or was) a project to use high-resolution imagery (mainly the HRSC datasef generated by Mars Express, but also locally CTX and HiRISE) to...

Pretty cool: imaging the Mach cone of a light pulse through a scattering medium: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601814.full Streak cameras aren't really new technology. I used one for my PhD 20 years ago. Also the temporal resolutions reported in the article (10ps) aren't...

I've uploaded the Antelope Valley scenery pack to the orbiter-radio download mirror: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/mirrors/orbiter_radio/tex_mirror.html It may be picked up by the other mirrors shortly. This pack contains high-resolution textures for Antelope Valley in southern California...

I've gotten used to Ubuntu over the years, but the latest 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) incarnation left me underwhelmed. I realise it's not a LTS version, but even so, I feel it shouldn't ship with a broken tcsh. (it crashes every time you press Tab for file name completion, which my little finger does...

Looks like scientists are searching for the red pill: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix So hands up, who coded Donald Trump?

I am currently working on a revision of the lunar elevation map improved accuracy by combining the LOLA data with altitudes derived from the SELENE Terrain camera http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103515003450, reducing the stripe artefacts from the LOLA data and providing...

I would like to implement a cooling subsystem for the delta-glider, partly to make the radiator do something useful, and partly to fill the rather blank right half of the overhead panel ... To get me started, I'd like to somewhat model the cooling system on the space shuttle. I have a few...

... has been released today. Need I say more? It's been six years in the making (with the occasional break ;) ), but finally, Tuesday has come around again. Head over to http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk to get your copy. If you have followed the beta commits and release candidates, the result...

Please try out the fourth release candidate. It's available as ZIP and MSI package: ZIP: http://mirror.orbiter-radio.co.uk/orbiter/assets/packages/Orbiter_RC/Orbiter2016.zip MSI: http://mirror.orbiter-radio.co.uk/orbiter/assets/packages/Orbiter_RC/Orbiter2016.exe This supersedes the RC.3...

Please try out the third release candidate. (Let's hope there won't be too many more ;) ) It's available as ZIP package (MSI to follow): http://mirror.orbiter-radio.co.uk/orbiter/assets/packages/Orbiter_RC/Orbiter2016.zip This supersedes the RC.2 package. For package details see the RC.1...

Here are the links to the high-resolution texture packages compatible with the release candidates (and hopefully the final release). When I find time I'll do a nice web interface, but in the meantime, here are the raw links. The files are in 7z format and split into fragments of 4GB to help...

Please try out the second release candidate. It's available as ZIP and MSI package: ZIP: http://mirror.orbiter-radio.co.uk/orbiter/assets/packages/Orbiter_RC/Orbiter2016.zip MSI: http://mirror.orbiter-radio.co.uk/orbiter/assets/packages/Orbiter_RC/Orbiter2016.exe This supersedes the RC.1...