OHM Vessel Load MFD

[OrbitHangar]

Author: asbjos

This addon shows you the acceleration on your vessel in both an MFD and with on-screen text in your Orbiter 2016 simulation.

Thank you to "Phoenix", who made the original Load MFD, which this addon is heavily based upon.

This module is still pretty much a work in progress, so if you notice bugs or have feature requests, please don't hestitate to notify me.



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[boogabooga]

Okay. Glad to have this back. Thank you!

 

[Interceptor]

Thanks for the new version,I was missing it in orbiter 2016.

 

[asbjos]

I've now updated the Vessel Load MFD (now version 2), which can be found here: https://www.orbithangar.com/showAddon.php?id=ecee56eb-9524-4ff8-a7a9-443ebdb4705f



It's a re-release (separate OHM entry) for visibility.

It's an improvement over the old one in every way, so please don't use that one anymore.

 

[fatcat]

Hi asbjos,

I'm a fan of your addons.
fyi Running Orbiter on a Mac with Wine, I do not see the Vessel Load MDF displayed. It can be chosen in the Launchpad Modules OK, but does not appear in the MDF menus when running Orbiter.

 

[asbjos]

Im a fan of your addons.

Thank you!

As for your problem: the name of the MFD is listed as "Load".
If you don't see it, could you share your Orbiter.log?
It is possible that the MFD itself crashes, for some reason.

I don't have the ability to test under Wine, so could you optionally check if the old version works?

Vessel Load MFD - Orbit Hangar Mods

(I don't recommend using the old add-on normally, I just wonder if a MFD with the similar architecture runs. In-game, you can discern between old an new by seeing if there is a plot of the components when pressing COM)

 

[fatcat]

Many thanks for the prompt reply.
I will do some troubleshooting.
I can confirm that the module fails to load for me. (Orbiter log). I have tried my installation on a windows machine and get the same result.
The old version load and runs fine.
I'll do a clean install of Orbiter and D3D9 and let you know what I find.

 

[BrianJ]

Hi,
I just tried the new version and it won't load in Orbiter2016 - I get a "Missing VCRUNTIME140D.dll" error message when activating the MFD on the Orbiter launchpad Modules tab.
Many thanks,
Brian
P.S. Running Windows 8.1 on ASUS PC.

 

[asbjos]

Hi,
I just tried the new version and it won't load in Orbiter2016 - I get a "Missing VCRUNTIME140D.dll" error message when activating the MFD on the Orbiter launchpad Modules tab.
Many thanks,
Brian
P.S. Running Windows 8.1 on ASUS PC.

Thanks, I'll probably have to build the add-on with an older version of Visual Studio (I used 2019, so I assume a new Redistributable / Windows is currently required). Will do in a few hours/days.

 

[asbjos]

@fatcat and @BrianJ, could you try this dll? Unzip into Modules\Plugin\ folder.
If it works, I'll upload it to Orbithangar.

 

[fatcat]

That one loads (excuse the pun) fine Asbjørn.

Thanks heaps.

 

[BrianJ]

Yes, new .dll works for me
Thanks!

 

[Nicholas Kang]

@fatcat and @BrianJ, could you try this dll? Unzip into Modules\Plugin\ folder.
If it works, I'll upload it to Orbithangar.

@asbjos Could you verify that you have replaced the dll on OH with the newer one tested by Brian and fatcat?

For your info, I downloaded the original add-on on OH and the MFD still won't appear. I still need to download the replacement dll available here on OF.

 

[asbjos]

@asbjos Could you verify that you have replaced the dll on OH with the newer one tested by Brian and fatcat?

For your info, I downloaded the original add-on on OH and the MFD still won't appear. I still need to download the replacement dll available here on OF.

No, I think I forgot to do this. Thanks for the heads up.
Will do it in a couple of days (unless I forget it again).

 

[Nicholas Kang]

No, I think I forgot to do this. Thanks for the heads up.
Will do it in a couple of days (unless I forget it again).

Thanks.

Another observation. The MFD seems to be vessel-independent. Say if I switch my camera view from a rocket stage that is still burning/accelerating to a spent/jettisoned stage and back to the accelerating stage, the MFD would show a "dip" in the graph suggesting that there is a period when the "accelerating stage" isn't accelerating, which isn't true.

Is it possible to make the MFD data vessel-dependent, i.e. a separate MFD data for each vessel?

Or have I missed out anything in the doc? (I read it and don't seem to find anything pertinent to this issue.)

 

[asbjos]

I have finally uploaded the updated version to OHM, not requiring the latest redistributables anymore (please verify that it works as intended).
I have also done the same treatment to my other MFD addons ( https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/travelmap-mfd.39488/ and https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/extended-map-mfd.38047/ ).

Another observation. The MFD seems to be vessel-independent. Say if I switch my camera view from a rocket stage that is still burning/accelerating to a spent/jettisoned stage and back to the accelerating stage, the MFD would show a "dip" in the graph suggesting that there is a period when the "accelerating stage" isn't accelerating, which isn't true.

Is it possible to make the MFD data vessel-dependent, i.e. a separate MFD data for each vessel?

Or have I missed out anything in the doc? (I read it and don't seem to find anything pertinent to this issue.)

Sorry for the late reply.
You haven't missed anything; it is vessel-independent. The challenge with monitoring the load for a specific vessel, is that the MFD doesn't know which vessels are relevant for load logging.
As an example, it can't tell the difference between the AMSO LM and the rock vessels AMSO spawns when landing. One could then say that the MFD should log every in-sim vessel, but then take a complex simulation like ISS AtoZ, which has hundreds of components. That would not be a good strategy.
This is the reason for it being a bit dumb, and only recording the load on the current focus vessel.

 

[Nicholas Kang]

I have finally uploaded the updated version to OHM, not requiring the latest redistributables anymore (please verify that it works as intended).
I have also done the same treatment to my other MFD addons ( https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/travelmap-mfd.39488/ and https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/extended-map-mfd.38047/ ).



Sorry for the late reply.
You haven't missed anything; it is vessel-independent. The challenge with monitoring the load for a specific vessel, is that the MFD doesn't know which vessels are relevant for load logging.
As an example, it can't tell the difference between the AMSO LM and the rock vessels AMSO spawns when landing. One could then say that the MFD should log every in-sim vessel, but then take a complex simulation like ISS AtoZ, which has hundreds of components. That would not be a good strategy.
This is the reason for it being a bit dumb, and only recording the load on the current focus vessel.

No problem. Thanks for the reply.

Your MFDs are very nice.