Request Emergency chute for XR-5

[TMac3000]

We all know if you break the gear when landing an XR-5, you can't get out of the ship (unless you go through the docking port and fall to your death). It would be nice to have one of those inflatable slides to connect to the docking port so you can escape in the event of a crash

 

[Mojave]

Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible. Remember, Orbiter doesn't have collision detection, so the UMMU would fall right through the slide.

 

[N_Molson]

One way to do it would be to add an inflatable slide mesh (with a scaling anim), and modify the spawning point of the uMMu so that they appear at the end of the slide (on the ground) in that case.

But a modification of the DLL seems required.

 

[Mojave]

In other words, contact Doug Beachy and he can probably help you out with this issue, TMac. :thumbup:

 

[Spacethingy]

A like the idea of a Universal Evacuation slide - each vessel could have a xyz coordinate in its .cfg that one end of a slide mesh can be attached/spawned to. Then on, say, hitting esc twice (once the vessel is marked as "landed") all the ships UMMU crew are deposited at random positions on the side of the ship where the slide mesh is.

Easy peasy.
All I need to do is learn C++, learn the Orbiter and UMMU APIs and perhaps learn a little reality... :lol:

 

[TMac3000]

Thanks everybody for the responses