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what is your favorite ADDON aircraft(DGIV,XR-2etc)
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Well said, Xyon.Yes indeed. Every addon is a representation of significant work, be it something simple like my MFD, or something as complicated as an XR or Wideawake itself. Making them work is a tremendous effort, making them work reliably and making them easy and fun to use is something else entirely. A vessel is much, much more than the mesh and textures and panels you see, it is a combination of all of those things glued together with lashings of C++ code, even those created with SpaceCraft 3 - simple meshes and textures mean nothing to Orbiter by themselves.
This is where I stop myself before this post devolves into a rant. But even the simplest vessel in Orbiter has some fairly complicated C++ code behind it. (I refer to the ShuttlePB, whose source code can be found in the SDK). MFDs are even more code-based, since everything you see in their display is drawn by the code behind it.
I don't profess to be very good at it myself, but there are those such as Artlav and dbeachy who are. And of course, Martin himself.
That was hardly relevant, looking back, but this is hardly a relevant thread anyway, so I think I'll leave that there.