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Hello all, I'd like to use Jarmonik's nice micro texture addon in orbiter 2016 with the D3D9 client, however only for the highest resolution level on the moon, namely the D3D9Moon_A and/or with D3D9MoonB textures without the other ones ( D3D9Moon_C and D3D9Moon_C2 ) so that I have only a micro...

Heey everyone! it's been a while! Tonight, I made an interesting observation. When I stepped outside the door to take out some trash a looked up into the beautiful clear dusk/night sky here in southwestern Germany just half an hour ago at around 9 p.m. local time (UTC + 2hrs). I accidentally...

Hello all, since early June, I encountered a problem with all the ATI graphics drivers updated catalyst center versions. The problem is, after the update, when trying to run Orbiter, FS2004, SevenG or similar programs I get an error message that no 3D acceleration (hardware) can be found...

Hallole, gerade eben entdeckt, habs noch nicht komplett geschaut, scheint aber interessant zu sein. Eine Frau möchte Astronautin werden: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek#/beitrag/video/1342950/%22Schwerelos%22 :cheers:

Hallole, ein wirklich sehr seltenes Ereignis. Neil Armstrong ist im Rahmen seines 80. Geburtstages diese Tage bei der österreichischen Fernsehsendung "Talk im Hangar 7" aufgetreten. Der sonst sehr medienscheue Neil trifft auch auf seinen damaligen Rivalen und heutigen Freund, Alexej Leonov...

Sad news. Another great character of mankind's greatest adventure is gone. :( http://collectspace.com/news/news-050310a.html

Hello folks, long time no see! I have been sucked up by the world of MSFS the last couple of months. A came across the following recently, and thought I needed to share, since I considered the effects/results of this man's work nothing but absolutely spectacular. I have never ever seen such a...

Howdy folks, most probably I'm going to regret posting this thread tomorrow morning when I'm sober again... or whatever you call this state in the english language. I just came home from having possibly a few drinks too much with colleagues I'm working together with. I really have to say these...

...interesting! No wait ...confusing! http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080813/full/news.2008.1038.html

Hello all, I intended to post these scenarios earlier, before the actual event, but didn't find the time. So here goes... to anyone interested to watch the recent Enceladus Fly-by of yesterday in Orbiter. Attached to this post you'll find two scenarios and a modified Enceladus.cfg file zipped...

Always liked that movie with Steve McQueen... http://news.aol.com/article/great-escape-veteran-dies-at-92/122936

Anybody know how I can get rid of that seam I generally have on all objects originally derived from the basic shape of a cylinder? Here you see the broken shading on the surface. I tried different Material tension values, however that seam is always visible. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080709-moon-water.html ...I say the Apollo program was worth every cent. :)

Jack Schmitt reflecting on the Apollo 17 mission. Might be an interesting read to some of you. http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC1/trip.html Especially interesting is his description of the effects during S-IC staging, haven't we discussed about that in an AMSO related thread in the M6...

Found this today, and think it's very well done. Download the 6 MB version - really nice! http://www.allthesky.de/various/issatv19mar08.html

Flying the Apollo 17 mission (was IMFD 5 base approach Q) Hello experts, I was wondering, when using the base approach program and adjust NUM to 0.000 I end up over the previously defined target base right at my very first revolution after orbit insertion, which is fine so far. However, is...