Recent content by Odahs

I use Rhino 4.0 which is a full-on Nurbs modelling package. I have limited experience of Blender so can't comment how easy/hard it would be to create this in Blender. I can say though that it would be straightforward in Rhino. Rhino has the function to convert the Nurbs object into a Mesh...

How come they are aliens? Perhaps they are native to the moon and breath moon dust...

I was a fan of Mork and Mindy as a child and an unkind school mate told me he died back then. I actually believed it in the pre-internet days. Later found out it was just a cruel prank. Sad news to hear that he has now moved on. Talented man who brought something special to my life in all the...

Time for tea and medals :) I was a few hours late getting back.

My first trip to the moon: Thanks to Shifty's AMSO For Dummies guide, I'm buzzing! :thumbup:

The Dummy has landed :) Even though it was all on AP the PDI and landing sequence was one of the most enjoyable sim experiences I've ever had, thanks for the guide Shifty, without it I would still be on the launch pad. :thumbup:

This is an area where scram jets always seem very promising, with a top theoretical speed in the region of 8,000 m/s a scram jet equipped launch aircraft could be very useful indeed.

Yep it's something for me to watch out for. It's almost like a trap for any unwitting simmer used to using aircraft MFDs as *usually* one might expect a separate step to alter the units. Rather than it defaulting to a different unit than the one currently displayed. I think the unfamiliarity of...

I found orbiter in a roundabout way. Use FSX a lot and had been flying a lot of missions in the English Electric Lighting which was capable of pretty impressive altitudes, certainly enough to notice the controls getting a little mushy in the thin air. That set the seed, what's it like to fly...

Finally completed a successful LOI burn :cheers:

The interesting thing about the perturbation settings is that the AMSO documentation states it is not 'sensitive' to these features - though I'm now wondering if LTMFD is so I'll try some different settings. ---------- Post added at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 AM ----------...

I've come across an old post that wasn't answered on the forum, stating that AMSO 1.21 was not working with LTMFD 1.4 So to set the scene, I've got a clean install of Orbiter 100830 with AMSO 1.21, LTMFD 1.4 and the Apollo 11 Sound pack. The more I look at it, the more the numbers just don't...

Wouldn't one expect a fly-by rather than an impact? The problem is if I can get a calculation for the LOI burn (which I can't always) during its execution the CSM+LM impacts the lunar surface.

I'm beginning to think there is something fundamentally wrong with the way LTMFD is working for me rather than anything specific in the guide. Been through the scenarios and the guide many times now. Invariably it ends with an impact with the moon! Shame as I'm getting to point now of throwing...

Starting out with AMSO as a noob to Orbiter has got me a lot more interested in the Apollo missions and I've been watching as many documentaries and old footage as I can. I'm no stranger to complexity in sims but I've been enjoying the cinematic experience of AMSO while just carrying out a few...