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    General Question D3D9 2010 version R16,5 on win XP

    Will D3D9 R16.5 for 2010 work on win XP?
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    Advanced Question Thrust values of ship with other ships docked

    When I add thrust values to my explorer addon and launch orbiter, the rotation and translation drastically reduces when I dock another ship to it and farther reduces when more ships are docked. Is this a bug or is there a way to ignore the mass of docked ships by inserting the correct piece of...
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    General Question Visual c++ 2008 setup compiling

    I have installed the vessel template addon for defining the thruster locations for shuttlepb and it will not complile saying cannot find the h files and the files located in orbiter\sdk\samples\include.What is the easiest to do,will copy/pasting the files from include in one of the visual studio...
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    General Question XR Cargo moon Orbit

    When arriving at the moon and circularizing,I then dumped the empty fuel modules in orbit to save fuel before landing.When taking off to collect them in orbit,thay are landed on the surface,is this a bug or not?
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    Gaming Creating an ocean exploration simulator

    I was browsing for a free simulator that simulates ROV underwater vessels and only found commercial expensive software so was thinking about if it is feasable to make a sim that you can explore the worlds oceans like you can space in orbiter. It could feature scuba dive planning with UMMU-like...
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    Idea XR5 brushed metal skin

    I have been looking for a plain brushed metal skin for the xr5 but cannot find one.I had a play with the paint kit learning about layered psd and came up with this look,it's minimalist and may not appeal to most users but here is is.
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    Textures Cubesats

    I saw a thread requesting cubesats so I had a go and made a cube and a longer type,packaged as UCGO cargo.Before release,what is the general opinion on the green texture,should it be a metalic but thought curcuit board would look good,here a few snapshots,or should I go super realistic with more...
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    Discussion Genesis station

    This is potentially my first vessel addon. Ive decided to name it Genesis as it is the first and largest supply station to supply Arrow sized ships at approx 2 km accross so can store loads of fuel and is nuclear powered. Also will be UCGO UMMU...
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    Question Prograde and retrograde moon orbit

    I have made a minor moon for Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus and Neptune.Uranus spins retrograde and the Juliet moon I added rotates retrograde with it.What do I put in config file to rotate the same as the outher moons?
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    Challenge Prelude III Ariel to Miranda

    Start from Prelude Ariel and land at Prelude Miranda.I managed with XR2 expert with 2 fuel tanks with 1.2 km/s to spare.Use DGIV if you wish. Requires preludeIII uranus addon. Scoreboard Top | XR2 Ravenstar | Pilots #|Name|Fuel left...
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    Question Geysers and plume effects

    Thinking it would be cool to have a geyser on some icy moons.Would the mesh have to be a vessel like preludeII and how complex would it be. One would look good in this soon to be relesed addon on enceladus. http://www.orbiter-forum.com/picture.php?albumid=791&pictureid=11591
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    Discussion Mons Hadley base

    This is my latest development. Someone commented in the Landing pack addon that some moon scenery would be good, so this is the maximum detail achievable with poly number. The only cons are that it's upside down and the valley channel is raised rather than depressed,but the mountains are in the...
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    Flight Question Activating XPDR cargo arrow autoland

    I put an UCGO XPDR transmitter on the base I wanted to land on with scn editor,then put the number in nav1 in com/nav then launched the autoland and XPDR not valid warning sounded.How dous one activate the cargo or dous autoland only work with the deorbit probe?. Cannot find it in manual.
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    Question Europa mesh placement

    Im trying to place a terrain area mesh on Europa,Ive taken the same steps that I used for a Terrain at Brighton Beach,but mesh is not showing despite marking a base L pad.Currently have the latest L8 texture. Im wondering if mesh is too large but Europa is simular size to moon.Do I need to...
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    News Brighton Beach Crater

    My first potential addon! A crater drawn with grayscale and terrim8tor,following the various mesh tutorials.It is ready to post in OH but cannot enter text into upload description box, do I need to install something? Here is a preview: It is entirely from my head and not from real data.Base...
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    Question UDK Unreal Development kit

    I found UDK looking for an engine that is free and not too complex to use.It seems to have a good terrain maker and can inport BMP and hightmaps.Do developers here use it?
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    Software upgrading from win xp32 to win 7 x64

    Im thinking of upgrading to win 7 64 bit from xp, have done a compatability check and that's fine.Do I install orbiter as normal or are there any known issues and is d3d11 smooth to install,currently have 4GB RAM,is that sufficient?
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    TransX Starting a new plan

    I am in orbit around Earth after arriving from Moon in the Arrow Ummu using TransX and want to go to Jupiter. How do you erase one set of stages and then start with new? :)
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    Question Question about aircraft vapour trails

    In the morning on a cloudless day,the sky is blue but as the day progresses it fills with lots of lines that fill the sky then dissapates into a flat cloud that makes the sun dimm. It happens about 4 times a week where I live. There is lots of talk on the net that there is a arosol spraying...
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    Programming Question Save the idiot playback tutorial and DGIV compatability

    Hi all, I have installed DGIV and included is the save the idiot rescue senario.I went to hanger mods and found the playback tutorial that uses delterglider III,so then opened notepad and changed to Delterglider IV but crashes to desktop and log says obserlite API function used. The question is...
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