Request A new bouyancy.dll?

[JonnyBGoode]

Way back in 2006, there was an addon called bouyancy.dll. With it, you could simulate bouyancy of balloons and lighter than air craft. With it, several addons were constructed, including a mission to the clouds of Jupiter and a floating base on Venus.

Unfortunately, as I recall, it broke in the 2010 release.

It would be awesome if someone were to revisit this concept for Orbiter 2016. Then we could do addons like this:

http://www.sciencealert.com/should-we-be-trying-to-colonise-venus-instead-of-mars

 

[jedidia]

and a floating base on Venus.

I don't think Artlav used bouyancy.dll, but he had some custom collision code in there that might well have broken with Orbiter 2016.

 

[4throck]

LUA scripting could be used to apply some constant force based on pressure.
You can load such a script on a scenario, and make it run for a specific vessel.
The script itself would be very short and easy to understand.

It's not the easiest thing to get in to, but no need to compile a .dll for that.
Basically a .txt produced in Notepad can do it ;-)

For reference, I've implemented pressure induced roll for the VS-40 sounding rocket here:
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6079"]Brazilian Space Program for Orbiter v2[/ame]

 

[JonnyBGoode]

Another potential addon idea that a bouyancy dll (or script or whatever) would be good for:

http://bt.e-ditionsbyfry.com/publication/?i=342068&ver=html5&p=26#{"page":26,"issue_id":342068}