Advanced Question Adding docking IDs,and,XPDR to SC3 ships

[Interceptor]

Hello,I had read long ago on the old M6 forum about a way to add docking IDs,and,XPDR to SC3 ships,so basicaly I would like to add ID,and,XPDR to Greg Burches Celestrium3,so I can use the RCS sync docking feature in the RCS attitude MFD to line up automaticaly, included in orbiter 2010P1.Thanks

 

[N_Molson]

People, please consider using C++ and the very powerful OrbiterSDK. It isn't that terrible.

And Artlav even made a SC3 to DLL automatic converter, so it's even easier to enhance SC3 projects...

 

[mjanicki]

Interceptor, I don't have the "Celestrium3" vessel installed to look at it specifically. However, in general, you can add xpdr and docking port IDS by editing the config file for the vessel.

As an example, I'm looking at one of Greg Burch's habitat modules that I modified at some point in the past. First, for the xpdr you'll want to edit or add two entries in the vessel config file -- one to enable xpdr if it's not already enabled, and another to set the frequency. These settings can be added to the main part of the config file, somewhere around MaxFuel should be fine. Just add/edit as follows:

EnableXPDR = TRUE
XPDR = 470

At the moment I cannot recall the conversion for the frequency, but that 470 translates to some usable frequency in the sim, something like 118.00 but I don't recall specifically what 470 will give. I'm sure the Orbiter documentation explains it, but I don't have the docs handy at the moment. You can also just experiment with the numbers to get the frequencies that you want.

Next, the docking port IDS. In the example I'm looking at, the ini file contains a section for docking ports:

BEGIN_DOCKLIST
 0    0     5.076047     0  0  1    1  0  0
 0    0    -5.076047     0  0 -1   -1  0  0
END_DOCKLIST

To add tunable frequencies, just add it at the end of the line for each docking port you want to be tunable. For example, to add frequencies to both of the ports above and to keep the frequencies near the xpdr frequency, I'd edit as follows:

BEGIN_DOCKLIST
 0    0     5.076047     0  0  1    1  0  0    472
 0    0    -5.076047     0  0 -1   -1  0  0    474
END_DOCKLIST

where all I've added are the IDS frequencies to the end of each docking port I want to be tunable. Just remember to keep the frequencies unique and avoid using common frequencies used by other vessels which you typically use.

Hope that helps some and sorry I didn't have the specific vessel to give more specific details.

-- Mike

 

[Interceptor]

Thanks Mike,I'll follow your advice.:tiphat: