Problem It appears that the Earth has stopped spinning.

[squeaky024]

Alrightie, so I was orbiting around in my ongoing scenario (plenty of stuff, prety much my happy place whenever i'm at home) and I have noticed that my map mfd is not showing the lines for my next orbit, so I thought "well this is strange" but I brushed the thought off because I was in the middle of a reentry. Now that I have landed at night and increased time acceleration to make it day.... day never came. (maybe Probe is trying to tell me something)

So what I am asking is what would be the safest way to restart the Earth's rotation in my scenario without causing havoc like trucks being sent in the air on fire or something, I have no idea what caused this problem but at least it explains why my xr5 has never reached KSC on its "next" orbit :lol:

edit: ok its ALL my scenarios, and only the Earth is not spinning, other planets spin normally.

 

[Keatah]

..foreboding

 

[Hielor]

My psychic powers tell me that you installed Orbiter Multiplayer.

Easiest:
Reinstall Orbiter.

Harder:
Pick the earth.cfg out of the Orbiter zip and put it in your installation.

 

[Wishbone]

What addons have you installed recently?

EDIT: :ninja:

 

[squeaky024]

My psychic powers tell me that you installed Orbiter Multiplayer.

Easiest:
Reinstall Orbiter.

Harder:
Pick the earth.cfg out of the Orbiter zip and put it in your installation.

You are correct, I did install OMP :tiphat:

I will get the earth.cfg from the Orbiter zip, but will the earth be in its correct position the next time I load up a scenario?

 

[garyw]

You are correct, I did install OMP :tiphat:

I will get the earth.cfg from the Orbiter zip, but will the earth be in its correct position the next time I load up a scenario?

Yes it will be. OMP stops the Earth's rotation to remove the jitter experienced in OMP due to time sync issues (I believe). Restoring the original orbiter.cfg will fix the problem.

 

[squeaky024]

Alright looks like its fixed now Thanks guys!

Now to inform my friends, who also got OMP

 

[Bonanza123d]

Now if you are smart, like i am, you could make scripts that would interchange with the configs. I did that, and it is great.

 

[Pablo49]

Alright looks like its fixed now Thanks guys!

Now to inform my friends, who also got OMP

Pro-tip: Assuming you have enough storage space, keep separate install for things like OMP. Or any other addons that change key files like Earth.cfg. Then you'll always know that your OMP install will work for OMP, and that your other installs will always work for their addons. Multiple installs = <3

 

[squeaky024]

Pro-tip: Assuming you have enough storage space, keep separate install for things like OMP. Or any other addons that change key files like Earth.cfg. Then you'll always know that your OMP install will work for OMP, and that your other installs will always work for their addons. Multiple installs = <3

I guess I could make a separate folder on lets say, my desktop, with the files needed to be changed and leave them in a format that I can just copy paste to the root folder of orbiter. Maybe ill also have 2 folders for each way, so like "Orbiter to OMP" and "OMP to Orbiter"

Good thing is Earth is spinning happily and no havoc was caused by the restart :thumbup:

 

[Marijn]

I have had the same problem, but I don't remember intalling OMP. Add-ons which overwrite orbiter files make me very suspicious now.

 

[Chemi]

Ohh that's because OMP sets earth rotation period to 100000000000000 second. that's why... :dry:

best way is go to orbiter directory then go inside config
then use notepad to edit earth.cfg you will find 2 line that we need to edit, it is SidRotPeriod and SidRotOffset
now , set these 2 parameters to

SidRotPeriod = 86164.09 ; 23h 56m 4.09s (check new reference: 23h 56m 4.0906s)
SidRotOffset = 4.8956 ; rad(280.5) at J2000.0

don't forgot to save

now, Earth will spin like normal! :thumbup:
I approve! 100% :thumbup:

(did I save the day?...)

 

[Ripley]

...(did I save the day?...)

Chemi, do you use to check post's date before replying??

 

[IronRain]

Chemi, do you use to check post's date before replying??

And read the warning of necro-posting?

 

[Athena]

If your too lazy to find the rules...

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[garyw]

And read the warning of necro-posting?

Yup, that one is normally a giveaway. Posting is fine if the question hasn't been answered - Even if the OP isn't interested in the answer anymore someone else might but but I think we've got this one covered now although Chemi's answer did add more info.

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