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    Orbiter Screenshot Thread

    DG-01 on final approach to Luna-OB1 (which is not rotating - not sure if it's Orbiter 2016 or whether I messed with the scenario) at MJD 58407.4862
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    Question Orbiter scripting

    What exactly is it you have problems with? The 'Beginning with Lua' is already aimed at beginners. If you are more specific people might be able to help you.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (SPOILERS)

    Yes, yes, yes. Saw it today and those were the points that made me want to leave the cinema. It's very comforting to read similar opinions here as the person I was watching the movie with liked it and I was the grumpy party pooper...
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    Beginning with Lua

    For my understanding: Regarding the range rate calculation, shouldn't the constant 0.25 be replaced with the variable dt?
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    PD loop tuning

    Yes, I've noticed that the DG's AAP does the multiplication by simdt but I did not get why it's done. So it seems that the problem in fact was a matter of tuning kP and kD. Setting them to kP = 0.001 kD = 0.0005 produces much smoother behaviour. Somehow I assumed that my initial values for...
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    PD loop tuning

    Thanks for reviewing. The result is the same unfortunately.
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    PD loop tuning

    Hello Forum, For practice I made a PD loop which is supposed to control the acceleration of the spacecraft. My problem with the loop is, that the throttle stutters back and forth between no thrust and full thrust. I'm not sure what the problem is, maybe someone can give a hint? PD_loop.lua...
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    Gaming Cold Waters: The Cold War Just Got Colder

    Thanks for posting this. It has mixed reviews so far, some hybrid of Fleet Command and Dangerous Waters. Not being able to give direct orders for navigating the ship and having to finetune it yourself seems very odd.
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    Question TransX or IMFD

    IMFD has a very useful map on which you can see your planned and current flight path and automated burn assistant. TransX is better suited for (multiple) fly-by maneuvers. There a good tutorials for TransX on http://flytandem.com/orbiter/index.htm I've been using both MFD's simultaneously...
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    Request Gateway transport system

    About the IP: would it make sense to add a docking port to the gateway so that the MFD can clearly identify which vessel is to be teleported? Can the vessel be teleported to the docking port of the target gateway and be undocked automatically after the teleport?
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    Request Atmospheric balloon

    The Eris Explorer apparently has multiple balloon probes to be dropped. Maybe this will get you started, I haven't tried this addon yet so cannot comment on the probes characteristics.
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    News Robot Wars 2016

    Reminds me of Robocode - is anyone familiar with that?
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    Flight Question Lagrange points/halo orbits? Are there any methods?

    I was struggling with IMFD's offset as well when trying to get to an L4, maybe the thread to EML4 with IMFD course offset can help you if you have not reviewed it already.
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    Flight Question Can you rendezvous with a craft in a solar orbit?

    Okay, it is harder than I imagined. Setting up a sort of Hohmann transfer in IMFD to meet the target more or less at its apoapsis gets me not even close to the target. Next I have tried to meet the target at its periapsis inside Earth's SOI also with IMFD which was equally unseccessful...
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    Flight Question Can you rendezvous with a craft in a solar orbit?

    Can you post your scenario? Edit: without using addon vessels.
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    Flight Question Can you rendezvous with a craft in a solar orbit?

    I think you could relatively easily use IMFD to rendez-vous with the target during its flyby of earth or if it is in the Sun's sphere of influence again - provided that you are familiar with IMFD in the first place. TransX would also work but it is more effort than with IMFD. Have you used...
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    Discussion IMS Finished Spacecraft Repository and Design Discussion

    Good idea to have a central thread for finished IMS vessels!
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    Random astropicture thread

    ISS and Moon Found this picture of the ISS in front of the Moon on another site. The link to the photographer's site is given as: http://deography.com/
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    SDK Question Move a vessel relative to another

    Thank you both. I modified the code based on your suggestions and have the desired result now. I had to multiply x,y,z components of my force vector for AddForce with -1 though as the intercept vessel was pushed in the exact opposite direction otherwise.
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    SDK Question Move a vessel relative to another

    D'oh :facepalm: Got it now, but the attackPoint in the COG does not really work to push the vessel into the right direction :oh:.
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