General Question Visual tools for orbit planning

[mrlucmorin]

Hi all,

Are there any add-ons, or maybe plans to develop in core, of visual orbit planning tools such as the ones in KSP, or Juno?

I'm talking about the planned burn tools with the UI interface where your planned orbit is displayed in real-time 3D as you tweak the burn parameters. Of course, one can use the various incarnations of MFDs such as TransX, and they work just fine (I want to make sure nobody will think I'm diminishing Orbiter in any way here), but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw how the other sims have those "for dummies" UI tools (for people just like me ).

Cheers

 

[LordCroussette]

As far as I'm aware, no such tool exit for Orbiter. The closest would be Videnie's Orbit Drawing addon, but it only exist for Orbiter 2010, I think.

I'm afraid you'll have to do it the good old ways. Don't worry, after eleven years using the sim, I still haven't mastered transfers to other bodies myself, even the Moon!

(Also, hello from a fellow Quebecker! )

 

[Ripley]

This is the status of the most "Videnie like" addon for O2016

Project - Orbits came for the Orbiter

I needed to create an add-on merely to test some functionalities of the Sketchpad2 interface. So, Orbits came alive for the Orbiter. This is an add-on to display vessel and planetary orbits in a planetarium view. My hands are full of work with the D3D9Client and I don't really have much time for...

www.orbiter-forum.com