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Hey everyone! This is a project I've been working on for a few weeks, and I'm spread the word in case anyone is interested in computer engineering or retro gaming. Thanks! JAMMA Custom Arcade Project (JCAP) CURRENT STATUS: Developing VGA driver What is it? JCAP is a project with the goal of...

I'm strongly considering developing virtual reality (e.g. Vive, Rift, etc.) compatibility with Orbiter. Is there anything in the works for this already, or is there interest to start such a project?

I figure it's better to break all of the addons down into discreet projects instead of quintuple posting. This is progress so far on a small cargo hopper, capable of transferring payloads between vessels at space stations, carrying equipment into and out of orbit around atmosphereless moons...

Prologue What is the cost of immortality? We're leaving. We must, else we condemn ourselves. This planet is lost on us. Or we have lost it. The concept that the perpetuity of the few could cause the extinction of the many is an irony not lost on the World Health Organization. Maybe the...

Hello all! I've been obsessed recently about doing a lot of math on paper to determine the optimum variables for orbital maneuvers. A couple things have been bugging me though, and no amount of research has given me a concrete answer. In the DeOrbit program within the BaseSync MFD (v2.3), you...

How's it going everyone! No one probably remembers me, but I was a regular a while back... some of you might have stumbled on some of my tutorial videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/KaboomTube?feature=mhee I got an e-mail saying someone had posted on an addon in the hangar, and the nostalgia...

Does anyone else have a problem with memorizing Lunar landing procedures in Orbiter, jet takeoff procedures in FSX, and gravity-torque calibration settings for a ballistic trajectory in Sniper Elite? I must have at least 30 reference charts on my wall.

Hello all! I have just cranked out my first 2 videos in what is to be an extensive as possible line of tutorial videos that will help the brand new orbiter understand everything from how to load up a scenario, to traveling to Mars, to making their own add-ons. The first 2 start off with the bare...

What I find so funny about this is that I had gone as far as doing interplanetary travel before actually trying to do this. I landed a bit hard at -5 m/s, but no wheel collapse or injuries so I'm happy. The thing that irks me about reentry and landing is the 3 out of 5 times, when the reentry...

Hey all. I've gotten to the point of my Orbiter career where I'm ready to ditch all the autopilots and assumptions and pre-determined calculations in order to make my own. I would like links to as many equations as I can get my hands onto to determine everything from calculating launch azimuth...

M'kay all, I'm entering an image for the "Doodle 4 Google" competition, the theme is "If I could go anywhere...". So, naturally, space is my theme. I've already created the "G" for my image, and I attempted the two O's but I don't like how they look with the 'G'. Any opinions on what to make the...

Mkay I just saw the movie "Armageddon" again after about 5 years... and I now hate space movies. I think if I see one more movie where the space shuttles boost towards a space station... I may flip. There was so much astrophysical fail in that movie that I can not believe any producer would even...

Hello OF! This is my final model/texture result for my DGIV payload, the APLR. I still need to add animations and MMU interaction, like the MKSSAT. Here is the model in Orbiter: The entire mesh is only 1865 Polys and made up of 8 textures. This will be my WIP thread for it, and I would love...

Ok well I've just gotten into some real addons, and my first one is a payload for the DGIV. I've done everything the SDK manual told me to, down to the 'T'. I made a nice low poly mesh, textured it using UV texturing (in Blender btw). I then exported the mesh using the orbiter plugin, and I...

Ok this is bugging me bad. The DGIV always runs out of O2 on voyages such as Earth-Mars. Is there a way to make the O2 and CO2 levels unlimited, or am I doing something wrong here?

I am making a large number of "story scenarios" with the DGIV, and near the end of the story line I need another solar system to be introduced. I've seen a large number of add-on solar systems, but I would like to get the opinions of the community before I choose one. Aesthetic, realistic, and...

Hey everyone! I've picked orbiter Sim back up and am trying to learn IMFD. I started yesterday and I've managed to complete a trip to Mars based on the tutorial provided in "Go Play in Space" manual. The issue is that I have to start my flights in LEO off the bat, because if I do a manual...

Hello Orbiter community, me == back :). I have a question. What is the absolute BEST and most FUEL EFFICIENT way to achieve orbit in a delta glider? Every time I end up with around 35% fuel remaining when all is said and done. Even when I am able to achieve a circular orbit at my initial MECO I...

I have been going to a couple of other forums recently (one for a video game server and another for Airsoft), and have been constantly subjected to people's idiotic and malcontented ways that forces me to become pissed off and use my most pristine vocabulary in picking apart their inane comments...

Ship Designing Tutorial Hello Orbiter Community! This is my very first tutorial for the Orbiter space flight simulator. The purpose of this tutorial is: To detail the brainstorming process for a ship add-on To detail the modeling process for a ship add-on To detail the advertising process for...