Recent content by Boxx

is MSVC related to the runtime? I've been facing the problem of not having the runtime recognized, hence the user needs to have VS(2019) installed (which is a pitty for non-dev users). Am I missing some setup at compilation stage?

Don't forget to check the box Parameters > Perturbations > Nonspherical gravity sources (because Sun-synchronous orbits are permitted by the fact that Mars, like Earth, is not spherical)

what plugin? where?

Small information, good news: my sponsor (i.e. my employer...) just renewed its support and confidence in Nex'Orbiter experiment. We'll open the website in a few weeks to tell just-a-little-more about the gameplay, that you could also influence with contributions... In the meantime, let's...

It would be of course nice to use Orbiter for your work. Nevertheless, you can also use another free visualization tool, that makes use of Celestia as a graphic engine: VTS by the French space agency CNES, that also has a stream feature (to display on the fly...). All data need to be formatted...

Hi, I think there is a confusion here: MJD is just a format, TDB is a time system. SPICE uses a reliable conversion between common time systems (TDB, UTC, TT...) whereas UTC is the time system apparently used by Orbiter. I know it sounds weird but Earth time system (UTC = Orbiter) is quiet...

many interesting avises here, thank you, Face I guess I can re-code a server in C++ (not C#) using .NET (5+, because <5 not supported after VS2019) and still compile to Linux tagets, can't I? (unless I use Windows' GUI... but if terminal only it should work in Linux)

What about PostgreSQL linked to C++ server with libpqxx... would also pave the way to mulitple (Linux or Windows) servers in redondance...

Now OMX is super-easy to install: just unzip into a vanilla Orbiter 2016 (to avoid conflicts) and accept all replacements. Reminder: OMX will remain a GPLv2 engine. It supports a persistent universe (i.e. deep space, saving states, continuous propulsion, life support, cooperation). It does not...

20 years in aerospace industry, then 10+ years as an astrophysicist, pushing nanosatellite era for science... less money but more fun :)

And that's fine as it is, IMO. in OMX, I don't use this management anymore, see rather STC_Vessels.cpp in the 1.1.0 release. My approach is to only save what I need to transfer and nothing more. In particular thrusters and fuel when a client needs to TRANSFER its vessel to another client, then...

niiiiiice ! I can see 3 docking ports in the "hotel" and 4 in the "lifehab" (that is, I guess, at the center)... On the pic I can only see 2 free docking ports, correct? Could you start from the wheel station and make, say, 36 available peripheral docking ports (1 every 10 deg.), in addition of...

/MT is Multithread /MD is DLL multithread => what's the difference?! I always use /MD(+debug) but maybe I do a mistake...

Nice resource!! I think these 3 pics in particular explain a lot (the 2 first ones look contradictory to me):

\begin{matrix} \overrightarrow z &= \text{thrust vector} \\ \overrightarrow y &= \text{top} \\ \overrightarrow x &= \text{left wing}\\ \end{matrix} for instance, or \begin{matrix} \overrightarrow z &= \text{thrust vector} \\ \overrightarrow y &= \text{bottom} \\ \overrightarrow x &=...