OHM Titan Dragonfly 240306

[barrygolden]

What a dummy ! Ok I figured that out and the sky looks super not sure about the surface fetures though

The guy that is doing the impluse upper stage is the geinus behind the Falcon 9
I do hope you do the upper stage

 

[francisdrake]

Out of curiosity I tried the Dragonfly on other launchers. The screenshot below shows it on a Starship.
This also triggers the reentry flames during ascent, and the flames remain on until payload jettison.
Funny, only the Falcon launchers seem to be immune against this.

 

[BrianJ]

Thanks for testing.
I'll look at the code again. It "should" be simple. Ha.

 

[Marg]

Sorry, a kind of double post, but it case it was unnoticed (ina nother thread):
I have a bit of anomaly with starship (by BJones), when it launches (after pressing V), vehicle moves with launch pad\tower, then rocket leaves - goes upwards, but pad continues to move eastwards (towards the gulf)? It's Orbiter 2016.

 

[BrianJ]

Out of curiosity I tried the Dragonfly on other launchers. The screenshot below shows it on a Starship.
This also triggers the reentry flames during ascent, and the flames remain on until payload jettison.
Funny, only the Falcon launchers seem to be immune against this.

This is a strange bug.
I tracked it down to the "EDL_Capsule" Status (Landed/Orbiting) not being updated during launch until detached from the launcher. Everything else (Dragonfly lander, Star48, etc.) seems fine. And it doesn't happen if you use the Falcon9/Heavy.
I couldn't even stop the reentry trail by disabling Reentry Flames on the Orbiter launchpad.
I'm baffled.

There is a workaround though, set the EDL_Capsule status entry line in your launch scenario to:

STATUS Landed Moon

I think it works - let me know
Brian

 

[Gargantua2024]

Sorry, a kind of double post, but it case it was unnoticed (ina nother thread):
I have a bit of anomaly with starship (by BJones), when it launches (after pressing V), vehicle moves with launch pad\tower, then rocket leaves - goes upwards, but pad continues to move eastwards (towards the gulf)? It's Orbiter 2016.

You might have Attachment Manager enabled. This is also a common problem in other launchers

 

[Marg]

You might have Attachment Manager enabled. This is also a common problem in other launchers

Thanks, it was really a problem's cause now it's OK.

 

[francisdrake]

STATUS Landed Moon

Yes, this works fine! No more reentry flames on ascent.
Because of its simplicity and effectiveness, this should be a candidate for "Hack of the year!"

Thinking why the reentry flames were triggered on some launchers, but not on all.
Maybe it is a bug in Orbiters memory allocation of exhausts or thrusters.
Could be a coincidence, but the Falcon9 uses a high number of texture SURFHANDLEs:

• Falcon9: 15 SURFHANDLE (no flames)
• VulcanCentaur: 7 SURFHANDLE (flames)
• Starship: 9 SURFHANDLE (flames)
• OrangeSLS: 4 SURFHANDLE (flames

Anyhow, I think the "Landed Moon" workaround is good for now.