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http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/terms.php Quoting: Mwwwuhahahahahahah!!!! http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=5100 I guess I don't have to comply if I just continue to release them as '2006P1' addons instead of '2010' addons :stirpot:, but OK, I'll be nice. This new condition is not...

Why is the first part of a Space Shuttle launch in a 'heads-down'(*) orientation? If it were rolled to a heads-up orientation, wouldn't that allow the wings to help reduce a bit of the gravity drag? (*) You know, with the heads of the astronauts closer to the center of the earth than their...

I have a class which I want to have reference counting. So I added a private reference count variable, and the public methods incRef() and decRef(). The user is responsible for calling incRef and decRef. decRef automatically calls the destructor (with 'delete this') when the reference count...

It took some time since I first discovered the blog function on this forum, until I found a topic that would be suitable to post here. But with the high number of (potential) software developers here, I think that this first post will be useful to some of you. Floating point numbers The topic...

I've read a bit on this forum about building simpits, and I wondered how far an amateur can go in building a simpit. So far I don't have the room for the plans I present here, so for now it's nothing more than dreams. I'd like to discuss it here so that people with different levels of expertise...

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=8691 First quantitative evaluation of planetary habitability presented

Starting from today, Dutch ID cards and passports will contain fingerprint information. It is not possible anymore to receive an ID card without giving them your fingerprints, unless you somehow have no finger prints because of some medical condition.:@ I discovered this situation a bit too...

When I use oapiGetDC / oapiReleaseDC to draw onto a texture, the texture becomes transparent on the parts where I've drawn. For instance, when I draw an ellipse, the ellipse becomes transparent and the rest of the texture stays visible. Possible related issue: the GL-01 / GL-02 etc. text on...

I have been thinking about whether an artificial intelligent computer program could become similar to a human being. Suppose there is a program that can read pages on the internet, and 'understand' what is written in them. More specifically, it is capable of analyzing the contents of...

I decided to start this thread, because I re-started working on libProcTer again, and I wanted a central place to discuss progress with the Orbiter community. libProcTer website: http://libprocter.sourceforge.net/ Demo download (windows): link Description: LibProcTer is a library for...

(Please move this thread if it belongs somewhere else) I have some feature requests for the next version of the Orbiter API. They are already mentioned elsewhere on the forum, but by this thread I'm making "official" feature requests: First of all: popup menus Built-in MFDs use popup menus for...

[Moderator note] This thread continues with posts split off from the 'MS Flightsim staff canned' topic. I don't think the curvature of the horizon can be visible too early in Orbiter. It uses realistic dimensions for everything. Maybe the only unrealistic thing is the opening angle of the...

I have a question from a quiz I would like to ask you: What happens when you open a bottle of champagne in the ISS?A: the champagne comes out very fast in thousands of mini-balls B: the champagne comes out slowly as a single liquid ball C: the champagne generates large bubbles, but a large part...

As far as I know, current OVP projects now provide the existing GDI system as the single possibility for MFDs to make their visualizations. I understand this is the easy way, as GDI is available on all windows systems, and existing MFDs already use GDI, so it's good for compatibility. But I can...

I'm asking this question here, because I expect to find a lot of people here with similar interests and maybe even some real pilots: Some time ago I was flying in Flight Simulator. I remembered my own flights between Amsterdam and Tokyo, which went over northern Siberia. I also remembered old...

KOST is the Kepler Orbit Simulation Toolkit. But it won't cost you anything ;). This is a continuation of this thread: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=4518 Once I found out that the thing I wanted did not exist, I decided to make it myself. I now have a 'zeroth' version, which doesn't...

I have an idea for something that could be really useful to me and to other add-on developers. I hope this already exists; in that case, could somebody point me to it? If it doesn't I think it would be a great idea to create it. The idea is as follows: For a lot of Orbiter-related programming...

Hi, I'm having trouble with the visibility of a self-made "terrain" vessel. It seems that its mesh becomes invisible as soon as its center is outside the screen. I need to mention that my "vessel" is quite large. I use Orbiter 2006-P1, and start from the Quickstart scenario. Then I add my own...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7572643.stm I expected to find more background information on this forum, but apparently it happened just a few minutes or hours ago.

Hi, I recently started creating my first Orbiter plugin project. I'm not having any major problems so far, and everything seems to work :woohoo:, so now I want to reach more ambitious goals than just an empty DLL with a custom vessel class. What I want to do is to create a binding between...