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So smaller spacecraft are stealthier because they have a higher surface-area-to-volume ratio?

Obviously you have to be able to change the textures, but you don't have to add or remove planets... Just include a bunch of unused planets in the scenario, set their mass and size to zero, make their texture really simple, and put them somewhere far, far away so that the player never sees them.

There wouldn't be huge performance benefits; the benefit is in making the transition seem more "natural."

Why not just do this? void setmass(OBJHANDLE obj, double m) { *(double *)(obj + 0x10) = m; } void setsize(OBJHANDLE obj, double s) { *(double *)(obj + 0x18) = s; } void setname(OBJHANDLE obj, char * newname) { strcpy((char *)(obj + 0x1CC), newname); }

I'm posting again so that this thread doesn't go unnoticed. A way to change planet textures would be really useful for Orbiter Galaxy, because instead of restarting Orbiter with a new solar system you could simply rename all the planets and move them around. It would be really nice if...

You can if you're willing to wait a while and uncheck limited fuel ;).

HOW??? :hail: Can you change the sun's name too?

If a planet's orbit can be changed by a custom DLL, can't the custom DLL change its position as well? And if you aren't planning to get close to a planet, you can "fake" changing its texture by creating a large spherical vessel that coincides with the center of the planet.

New feature request? lol

Three questions: Is it possible to dynamically change a planet's size and mass? Texture? Position? Can an MFD change the position and orientation of a vessel directly? (the answer is probably yes) If so, is it possible to implement "seamless" interstellar travel by keeping the planets the...

You could use a shell, or just hold it by adhesion.

What about a large liquid mirror?

Can't you just put the texture in the Textures directory? ...

If the net hit spacecraft fast enough, grenades wouldn't increase the damage much because the net because more (kinetic) energy would be dissipated in the collision than chemical explosives could ever contain. EDIT: for example, a mixture of beryllium and oxygen has a specific energy of 23.9...

You can also use my totally unrealistic method of landing, which is to start at a very low orbit (apocynthion & pericynthion below 100 meters) and then lower the pericynthion to below 0 meters. Once you touch the ground (with gear lowered, of course), you fire your retro thrusters to lower your...

Awesome. :hail::probe:

Timer test: Let the timer roll: 2510-03-05 2:30

You also spelled "Vessel" as "vessel"...

Of course, but efficiencies arbitrarily close to 100% are possible.

Yes, but you get twice the energy back because the normal matter the antimatter annihilates with also turns into usable energy. So the overall maximum possible efficiency (energy out / energy in) is 100%.