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I haven't been able to find a copy of spacecraft so I don't know what it's capabilities are but if it doesn't include the payload functionality, you're out of luck. However, unless you're using an extremely old version of Orbiter you should be able to simply change "spacecraft" to "spacecraft3"...

I think we are all relieved that no vampires are involved!

Thanks! I thought you might like it. I'd like to do beam weapons but I suspect the maths might be beyond me. But it's something to think about and I'm open to suggestions about how it might be done.

DanM: my thoughts exactly. A Pastafarian XR-5 wouldn't need engines as it would be borne aloft on his noodly appendages. And neither would a Rastafarian XR-5 since it would have other means of getting high.

Tired of firing blanks? You don't have to any more. This addon adds working (i.e. exploding) quantum torpedoes to any vessel capable of spawning another vessel and since that includes all Spacecraft3 vessels, most Star Trek vessels in Orbiter can now have working quantum torpedoes. Adding...

@Cizurator Yes, I know. I've been going through the Trek addons on Orbit Hangar. Your photon/quantum torpedoes are certainly very nice looking. It's just that while Spacecraft 3 does the job - I use it myself - it's a bit limited. What I'm working on will give you more bang for your buck, so...

Not quantum torpedoes, Quantum disruptors - the only thing the Borg can't adapt to because, well, it quantum. Probably why your avatar's looking so unhappy! I probably didn't make it as clear as I should have but all my Trek stuff is set post Voyager so I'm free to make stuff like that up. My...

The K'randa is my take on the classic Klingon cruiser that dates back to the original series of Star Trek and has appeared in multiple forms since then. This is one more. Operation: Press G to turn on the light, J to fire the quantum disrupters and K to fire the phasers. There's no landing gear...

<Graham Chapman army guy voice> This started off as a perfectly sensible sim about things orbiting things but now it's just got silly (/ Graham Chapman army guy voice> Seriously, to the person who rated this as terrible - get a sense of humour.

Well if you go to a bag shop and buy a bag they will offer to put it in a bag. Always amuses the hell out of me. ---------- Post added at 01:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:09 PM ---------- Second hand Australian engineering. We invented wine in boxes - the infamous chateau de...

This is my conversion of the astronaut mesh from the 3d resource page on the NASA site. (Thanks to  n0mad23 for the find.)  I have added some details, uv mapping, posed the figure  and created a simple module. The textures are pretty generic but I may update them later if I can find suitable...

$1500 seems high then you see what it can do. I want to fit one of these with blinking LEDs and a speaker that plays theremin music and fly it around my suburb at night. "Nothing of terrestrial origin can possibly fly like that."

Time for an ISA (International Space Agency). It's that or hitching a ride with the Chinese.

Thanks for this. A brilliant find! I'm particularly happy to see the Agena since I'm planning to do an Atlas Agena in (what shall I say) ultra high res. (Yes, I am counting the rivets!). As for the mesh size thing, in my view there's really only low res and every thing else - low res for older...

The SpaceNavigator is now working in Orbiter with the latest beta drivers  at http://www.3dconnexion.com, so I thought I'd share my configs to save others the hassle of setting it up themselves. The drivers are still buggy so I've had to map the roll axis to the keyboard but it's still very...

Sky Captain - I Googled your question and found that NASA are already on the job.http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/6724/ares-super-chute-tests.html Only 50 000 lbs so ann A380 is still a way off but an a320 might be doable.

You wouldn't necessarily need hard points. Remember the point is to get the passengers down in one piece - the plane is expendable. (I even considered blowing of the wings but maybe I've just been watching too much Mythbusters.) You could, for example, have a sling under or built in to the skin...

Coincidently, just this morning I was thinking about the idea of implementing a ballistic parachute on an airliner. Damn difficult, granted, and initially costly, but surely not impossible. You'd probably need some exotic materials (ultra high tensile cables - just get them off the space...

I sneak into the dinosaurs nest, nibble the end off, and suck the good stuff out. Gotta go now, just heard a big bang.

AFAIK VSOP87 is the standard for the calculation (as opposed to lookup which is essentially what you're doing) of planetary positions (Ephemerides). There are any number of software implementations including the one in Orbiter itself - at least one of them should be free to use. Using the...