Update XR Beta DLLs for Orbiter 2016 Release Candiates

[dbeachy1]

Hi all,

Continuing the discussion started here, I have just uploaded some new XR Beta-2 DLLs for Orbiter 2016 RC2. You can download them in the same locations as before:

• XR1 1.12 Beta-2
• XR2 1.7 Beta-2
• XR5 1.10 Beta-2

Note: these DLLs require Orbiter 2016 RC2 or newer. Do not try to use them with Orbiter 2010 P1.

To install them, just drop the DLLs in to your $ORBITER_HOME\modules folder overtop of the existing XR DLLs -- all the other files are the same for now (I am updating them as applicable for the upcoming full XR releases).

Changes since the initial DLL versions from yesterday:

• Descent Hold autopilot now uses altitude data that takes land elevation into account, so the auto-descent autopilot works now.
• Fixed "Welcome aboard, Commander" callout not playing on startup when the ship was landed.
• Fixed XR2 forward gear wheels not rotating when taxiing.
• Fixed wheels being sunk into the ground too far for the XR2 & the XR5 falling through the ground forever while landed: the fix was to explicitly set custom gear compression and damping coefficients based on the mass of each ship.
• Fixed XR5's crew elevator state not being saved to and loaded from the scenario file (this was a pre-existing bug).
• XR vessels now link with and require UMMu 3.5 or newer instead of UMMu 2.0 or newer
• XR vessels now link with and use OrbiterSound 4.0 instead of OrbiterSound 3.5: XR vessels should now work correctly with OrbiterSound under Orbiter 2016. (You may still fly without OrbiterSound if you wish, of course.)

Known Issues:

• Attempting to bring up the OrbiterSound Radio/mp3 MFD causes a CTD; this is a known OrbiterSound bug not related to the XR vessels.
• EVA'ing a crew member close to the ground will (usually) cause the crew member to be ejected into space within a few seconds. (I believe this is a UMMu 3.5 bug since the UMMu 3.5 DLL was built for Orbiter 2010.)
• Switching to cockpit view for an EVA'd crew member causes a CTD. (I believe this is a UMMu 3.5 bug since the UMMu 3.5 DLL was built for Orbiter 2010.)

If you find any bugs that you believe are XR-specific, please post them in this thread along with details on how to reproduce it in a clean Orbiter 2016 RC2 + XR install.

Happy Flying! :tiphat:

 

[PeterRoss]

Some bugs with XR-2, latest .dll, Orbiter 2016 RC2, DXD9, "1-Ready for takeoff to ISS" scenario:

1) Can't open resupply hatches when on ground. System says hatches are locked while in flight, even though the vessel is landed, and its status is LANDED in scenario file.
2)Turning off APU on the ground results in repeated audio warning "APU offline".
3) Wheels are spinning all the time, even when I'm standing still.
4) Bay door open status isn't saved into a scenario file. Bay doors always closed when starting, even if it was open when saving a scenario.

Those are bugs detected on the ground only. Now I will try it to the Moon.

---------- Post added at 14:23 ---------- Previous post was at 13:36 ----------

Everything went fine until the very touchdown. Landing was made on a little slope terrain. When descent autopilot were turned off, Ravenstar slowly rotated backwards around rear gear wheels and stopped in this position:

Yes, it's underground.

---------- Post added at 14:24 ---------- Previous post was at 14:23 ----------

Here's the scenario:

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Current scenario state


Contains the latest simulation state.
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END

 

[dbeachy1]

Thanks for the testing! I reproduced all the issues you posted with some help from Woo482, and I fixed them. I just uploaded new XR DLL versions to the same URLs; change list since last build is:

• Fixed bug with not being able to open resupply hatches while landed (reported by Blixel).
• Fixed pre-existing bug with the XR2 & XR5 not saving & restoring the state of the payload bay doors (reported by Blixel).
• Fixed AoA & Slip gauges showing -99.9 degrees while at wheel-stop.
• Added custom touchdown points for the hull so that when the vessel crashes and settles upside-down it remains above-ground. (Thanks to Woo482 for getting the various hull point coordinates for me using his 3dsmax.)
• Tweaked nosewheel steering amplification to be less sensitive.
• Fixed XR2 & XR5 wheels rotating even at wheel-stop when wind effects are enabled (reported by Blixel; thanks to Woo482 for figuring out that the problem only occurs when wind effects are enabled).
• Fixed bogus "APU Offline" warnings at wheel-stop when wind effects are enabled (see above).
• Fixed pre-existing bug with XR2's Reentry Check MFD screen missing 'Bay Doors' status line (reported by Woo482).

Please download the new XR DLLs via the same links before you continue testing. Thanks! :tiphat:

 

[Ripley]

Ok, I know I'm one-of-a-kind, but I wanted to add that in XP (Orbiter2016 RC2 + D3D9 24.2 + latest XR DLLs) I have the following problem:

It's in Italian, but it says the usual "...couldn't locate entry point..."

Plain orbiter.exe shows a white screen and then it CTDs.

In orbiter_ng.exe, launching XR1 (or XR2) "landed at Brighton Beach" scenarios, I get the error in the screenshot, but then Orbiter launches anyway.
While in the cockpit, F8 only gives me the glass cockpit, and with F1 I have no external ship visuals at all (invisible ship).

I'm at work now, and I don't have Orbiter logs to attach.

From what I've googled so far, InitializeCriticalSectionEx points to a VS 2012.3 update, but when I click on it (on MS site) it redirects me to a VS 2012.4 link, which is not a valid XP download.

Now, it was not the fear for ransomwares, not the alerts from my bank, not Dropbox shutting down XP support...But if XR fleet itself doesn't work on XP, THAT will make me update my lousy box!
:rofl:

 

[orb]

From what I've googled so far, InitializeCriticalSectionEx points to a VS 2012.3 update, but when I click on it (on MS site) it redirects me to a VS 2012.4 link, which is not a valid XP download.

Unfortunately, no download will help if the DLL isn't rebuilt with XP compatibility. InitializeCriticalSectionEx was introduced only in KERNEL32.dll of Vista and newer.

 

[fort]

But if XR fleet itself doesn't work on XP, THAT will make me update my lousy box!
:rofl:

Lousy ? I'm an XP fan, the best OS ever made in the universe and beyond :tiphat:

... in KERNEL32.dll...

Ah ! the Kernell32 story and the procedure entry point. A delight :facepalm:

 

[dbeachy1]

Unfortunately, no download will help if the DLL isn't rebuilt with XP compatibility. InitializeCriticalSectionEx was introduced only in KERNEL32.dll of Vista and newer.

Sorry, not gonna happen -- XP is nearly 15 years old now and has been unsupported by Microsoft (as in no more security patches) for over two years. But you can always run the existing XRs on Orbiter 2010 P1 on XP systems.

 

[birdmanmike]

Was attempting a test install of the UMMu 3.0(plus DeltaGlider IV/3) as only way to get UMmu which is needed for the XRs and it came up with wanting to patch a previous UMmu.

Question is, do I still need UMmu if I just want to pilot the XRs and not space the crew or whatever, and if so, which one . . . can't find UMmu on its own

This is with RC2 and the XRs from dbeachy1 Altea Aerospace download page?

Thanks

 

[dbeachy1]

Question is, do I still need UMmu if I just want to pilot the XRs and not space the crew or whatever, and if so, which one . . . can't find UMmu on its own

You do need UMMu in order to pilot the XRs because the XR code makes calls to the UMMu DLL. I do agree it would be nice if you could download UMMu on its own since so many add-ons use it -- you could always try asking DanSteph nicely to put up a UMMu download.

This is with RC2 and the XRs from dbeachy1 Altea Aerospace download page?

Do you mean are trying to run the XRs from my Web site using Orbiter 2016 RC2? That won't work because you will also need the XR DLLs linked at the top of this thread. So, to sum up:

1. Install Orbiter 2016 RC2.
2. Download and install the XR(s) that you want from my Web page.
3. Download the Orbiter 2016 RC2 XR DLLs you need from the top of this thread and copy them to your $ORBITER_HOME\modules folder, overwriting the XR DLLs there.
4. Download and install the latest UMMu from DanSteph's page (it is bundled both with UCGO and the DGIV, as I recall -- unfortunately you can't download it standalone).
5. Run Orbiter 2016.

That should do it. :tiphat:

 

[birdmanmike]

Thanks for that - I knew about the DLLs here for the RC2 OK, (originally was going to try a couple months back with the then beta but gave up then as only working with 2010 it seemed?) .
It was you releasing the new DLs has prompted me to do it again. Haven't tried to run yet pending the UMmu but will d/l the UMmu with DG4 and go from there.

Thanks for help

 

[dbeachy1]

I just uploaded a new Beta-3 version of the XR DLLs to the same download links. The only change in this version is:

• Added feature to save Orbiter render window position when a scenario is saved and restore it when Orbiter starts. Note that this is a truly global setting by design, which means it works across all scenarios and all separate Orbiter instances that load at least one XR vessel. Works with multiple monitors as well, and does not affect full-screen sessions. Orbiter Window coordinates are saved to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AlteaAerospace\XR in the registry. To disable automatic window position restore globally, create a new REG_DWORD value under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AlteaAerospace\XR named DisableWindowPosRestore and set its value to 1.

I added this feature because the WindowTack add-on on OrbiterHanger no longer works in Orbiter 2016, and I got tired of constantly moving my Orbiter window on each relaunch. :tiphat:

 

[birdmanmike]

Doing reasonable with the XR1 and XR2 just, is it me AbsoluteKillRot ? doesn't seem absolute and I have to keep correcting again - did I see somewhere about not with XRs?

 

[dbeachy1]

I have never used AbsoluteKillRot. Does it work correctly with the default DG in Orbiter 2016? In any case, I would contact the AbsoluteKillRot author about any issues with it.

 

[Ripley]

Do you use this version of AbsoluteKillRot, by Enjo?
http://www.enderspace.de/orbiter/addons-beta/

 

[birdmanmike]

yes it works (worked) with the RC2 and is/was Enjo's latest beta. However sorry, while checking those, it seems my bad - somehow it got deactivated in modules. I'll check again with XR1
Grovels in shame :blush:

 

[dbeachy1]

I just uploaded new BETA-3 versions of the XR DLLs with one fix:

• Fixed bug with Orbiter render window position sometimes not being restored when using the D3D9 client.

Same download links as before. :tiphat:

 

[turtle91]

Is there a way to apply some kind of a "handbrake" ?
I.e. if a base/pad is not 100 percent flat, it s realy hard to have a wheel-stop.
Maybe coupling "VESSEL::SetWheelbrakeLevel ( double level, int which = 0 , bool permanent = true )" to the external cooling/air-connector could trigger this ?

I know, the brakes in an XR vessel are dependend on APU/hydraulic power, but the cooling/air-connector could act as some kind of "anchor".
Just an idea....

 

[dbeachy1]

Hmm...I'll think about it and see if I can figure something out -- I'm thinking I'll just make the parking brakes set automatically whenever the vessel reaches wheel-stop, and then auto-disengage the parking brakes whenever thrust is applied.

 

[Loru]

Wouldn't that foil any future attempts to make tugs work with XR fleet?

 

[dbeachy1]

No, because the pilot can simply tap the RCS or main thrust to disengage the parking brake, and the parking brake will never (re-)engage until 1) both wheel brakes are applied and 2) the vessel reaches wheel-stop. There will also be a setting in the XR vessel's config to enable or disable the parking brake feature (default is enabled).