Problem Problems with my Solar System

[vibester27]

Having some problems with my solar system. Here is what I did. I copied Sol, Sun, Mars, Phobos and Deimos, changed the names, now I have a one planet two moon system. Next I put in my Mars scenarios, also changed the names. I opened up the scenario, and I'm on my base on a Mars like world with the name I gave it.Now here is where I start having problems, I open a bmp of Mars in photoshop, change the color a bit, change the name of the file to match the planets name, open the planets config file and change the Module to the name of the planet.Then open up pltex to make the bmp into tex, put it in the Textures folder. Now when I open up the scenario I'm in orbit around the star, not sure why this is. If I go to the Scenario editor, and go to my base, everything shakes and it looks like I'm hovering 10 feet over the pad. Hope someone can help.

 

[jedidia]

To possibly answer this, I'm afraid I'm going to need the content of all config files involved. The reason you are in orbit around the star is probably that you didn't adjust the planet's name in the scenario file, as for the bumping, no idea.

 

[vibester27]

; === Configuration file for Abb solar system ===
Name = Abb

Star1 = Abb
Planet1 = RakAbbAbb
RakAbbAbb:Moon1 = AkkAbbAbb
RakAbbAbb:Moon2 = RakAkkAbb

; === Configuration file for star Abb ===
Name = Abb
Module = Sun
ErrorLimit = 1e-6
SamplingInterval = 1497        ; interpolation sampling interval [s]
                               ; (interpolation error ~1m)
Mass = 1.9889194444e+30
Size = 6.96e8     ; mean radius

; === Configuration file for planet RakAbbAbb ===
Name = RakAbbAbb
Module = RakAbbAbb
Module_Atm = MarsAtm2006
ErrorLimit = 1e-5
SamplingInterval = 138         ; interpolation sampling interval [s]
                               ; (interpolation error ~1m)
; === Physical Parameters ===
Mass = 6.418542e+23
Size = 3.38992e6                   ; mean radius
JCoeff = 0.001964                  ; J2 coefficient for gravitational potential

; === Rotation and precession parameters ===
; ref: see [url]www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=8185[/url]
PrecessionLAN = 4.005081124
PrecessionObliquity = 0.03224369545
PrecessionPeriod = -63346652.48
LAN = 0.6210531483
LAN_MJD = 51544.5
Obliquity = 0.4397415938
SidRotOffset = 5.469523488
SidRotPeriod = 88642.66435
;SidRotPeriod (days): 1.025956763
;SidRotPeriod (days - node to node): 1.025956748
;Precession Period (years): -173433.6824
;Obliquity (deg): 25.1953374
;Ecliptic LAN (rad): 4.588603922
;Ecliptic Obliquity (rad): 0.4663171564
;Ecliptic SidRotOffset (rad): 5.040408866
;Axis RMS Error (deg): 3.596520014e-006
;Lat/Lon RMS Error (deg): 0.000228792323

; === Atmospheric Parameters ===
AtmPressure0 = 0.61e3          ; pressure at zero altitude [Pa]
AtmDensity0 = 0.02             ; density at zero altitude [kg/m^3]
AtmGasConstant = 188.92        ; specific gas constant [J/(K kg)]
AtmGamma = 1.2941              ; specific heat ratio c_p/c_v
AtmAltLimit = 230e3            ; cutoff altitude
AtmColor0 = 0.65 0.52 0.40
AtmHazeColor = 0.65 0.52 0.40
AtmHazeDensity = 1.5

; === Visualisation Parameters ===
AlbedoRGB = 1.0 0.7 0.3
MaxPatchResolution = 11          ; highest sphere patch level

; === Configuration file for moon AkkAbbAbb(RakAbbAbb) ===
Name = AkkAbbAbb
Module = Phobos
;EllipticOrbit = TRUE           ; assume unperturbed orbit
;HasElements = TRUE             ; orbital elements follow

; === Planetary Mean Orbits ===
;***cfgBatchDataCalculator
;Epoch =  2006.49555099247
;SemiMajorAxis =  9373718.185   ; by Chode
;Eccentricity =  1.67764797641549E-02
;Inclination =  .447317844099851
;LongAscNode =  1.45112328382648
;LongPerihelion =  6.65884410217624
;MeanLongitude =  7.0063164440015

; === Physical Parameters ===
Mass = 10.8e15
Size = 11e3                      ; mean radius (13.5x10.8x9.4)

; === Rotation and precession parameters ===
; ref: see [url]www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=8185[/url]
PrecessionLAN = 4.588488707
PrecessionObliquity = 0.4661704238
PrecessionPeriod = -826.1311277
LAN = 2.245404188
LAN_MJD = 51544.5
Obliquity = 0.01884736041
SidRotOffset = 0.8064220017
SidRotPeriod = 27553.83426
;SidRotPeriod (days): 0.3189101187
;SidRotPeriod (days - node to node): 0.3187870797
;Precession Period (years): -2.261823758
;Obliquity (deg): 1.079874207
;Ecliptic LAN (rad): 4.622012017
;Ecliptic Obliquity (rad): 0.4546193651
;Ecliptic SidRotOffset (rad): 2.021915467
;Axis RMS Error (deg): 0.8684982418
;Lat/Lon RMS Error (deg): 0.8608715885

; === Visualisation Parameters ===
AlbedoRGB = 0.37 0.36 0.39
MaxPatchResolution = 0           ; use explicit mesh

; === Configuration file for moon RakAkkAbb(RakAbbAbb) ===
Name = RakAkkAbb
Module = Deimos
;EllipticOrbit = TRUE           ; assume unperturbed orbit
;HasElements = TRUE             ; orbital elements follow

; === Planetary Mean Orbits ===
;***cfgBatchDataCalculator
;Epoch =  2006.49555099247
;SemiMajorAxis =  23457055.8    ; by Chode
;Eccentricity =  5.38769300976509E-04
;Inclination =  .478380963113499
;LongAscNode =  1.4132554296303
;LongPerihelion =  6.74034890913685
;MeanLongitude =  7.1039181402634

; === Physical Parameters ===
Mass = 1.8e15
Size = 6.5e3                     ; mean radius (5..8km)

; === Rotation and precession parameters ===
; ref: see [url]www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=8185[/url]
PrecessionLAN = 4.569919137
PrecessionObliquity = 0.4589623041
PrecessionPeriod = -19884.23365
LAN = 0.2163181082
LAN_MJD = 51544.5
Obliquity = 0.03115720981
SidRotOffset = 3.599771213
SidRotPeriod = 109074.8814
;SidRotPeriod (days): 1.262440757
;SidRotPeriod (days - node to node): 1.262360649
;Precession Period (years): -54.44006476
;Obliquity (deg): 1.785176624
;Ecliptic LAN (rad): 4.584142011
;Ecliptic Obliquity (rad): 0.4894357966
;Ecliptic SidRotOffset (rad): 4.33244764
;Axis RMS Error (deg): 0.7903839043
;Lat/Lon RMS Error (deg): 0.193171207

; === Visualisation Parameters ===
AlbedoRGB = 0.31 0.30 0.32
MaxPatchResolution = 0           ; use explicit mesh

BEGIN_DESC
Orbiter saved state at T = 1621
END_DESC

BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
  System Abb Solar System
  Date MJD 52250.5198783502
END_ENVIRONMENT

BEGIN_FOCUS
  Ship GL-01S
END_FOCUS

BEGIN_CAMERA
  TARGET GL-01S
  MODE Cockpit
  FOV 65.41
END_CAMERA

BEGIN_HUD
  TYPE Surface
END_HUD

BEGIN_MFD Left
  TYPE User
  MODE BaseSync
  Target olympus
  Reference none
  Data -2.3637 0.222355 0 1 0 8
END_MFD

BEGIN_MFD Right
  TYPE Map
  REF RakAbbAbb
  BTARGET Olympus
  ZOOM 2
  POS 0.58 0.00
END_MFD

BEGIN_SHIPS
GL-01S:DG-S
  STATUS Orbiting RakAbbAbb
  RPOS -1903954.32 1915341.27 2048902.33
  RVEL -137.226 57.259 -181.161
  AROT -54.34 10.75 -34.87
  RCSMODE 2
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:0.995000 1:1.000000 2:1.000000
  NAVFREQ 94 524 84 114
  XPDR 0
  GEAR 1 1.0000
  PSNGR 2 3 4
  TANKCONFIG 1
  AAP 0:0 0:0 0:0
END
GL-02:DeltaGlider
  STATUS Landed RakAbbAbb
  BASE Olympus:3
  POS -135.4299999 12.7366194
  HEADING 0.00
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:1.000000 1:1.000000
  NAVFREQ 0 0 0 0
  XPDR 0
  GEAR 1 1.0000
  AAP 0:0 0:0 0:0
END
END_SHIPS

BEGIN_ExtMFD
END

Hope you can help, everything looks in the right place.

 

[orb]

Hope you can help, everything looks in the right place.

Now, after I added [code][/code] tags, it looks in the right place.


What are the file names you used, and have you got RakAbbAbb.dll module?

 

[jedidia]

Indeed. If you write "Module = RakAbbAbb", you have to have a RakAbbAbb dll lying around somewhere. If that wouldn't be the case however, I don't see how a planet could even be there, but I have no expierience whatsoever with planet dll's.

Also entering into this, is Mars referenced in Phobos and Deimos dll, or do they work just as fine independantly of what their parent body is called? I have no Idea...

Anyways, a missing dll could explain the behaviour: If orbiter starts and no orbital parameters for the planet are defined, I'd expect the planet to either show up at 0/0/0, which certainly could cause some interesting effects, or if the values aren't zero-initialized it couldshow up anywhere, which certainly would explain the bumping up and down (too far out).

Please post the contents of orbiter.log.

 

[vibester27]

I gave this a try last night and it looks like it fixed all of my problems. All I did was change the Module back to Mars, now I have the color that I want for the planet. Thanks for the help.:thumbup: