Hey guys,
Just gotten a new laptop, and the first thing I did is copy my orbiter installation over from my old (so I had all 2gig of addons that I can't live without
) and I
just came up with an idea.
I haven't been able to find an addon like this, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.
What I'm thinking of, is an addon that will pause the simulation, play a sound and perhaps popup some info on an MFD.
The kind of events I was thinking of would be if I was waiting to reach periapsis or apoapsis, or perhaps when I need to engage pro/retrograde for plane alignment, or perhaps when thrust needs to be activated for transfer and such.
This way, I could be running orbiter, get into orbit, and then when I'm waiting to reach apoapsis I could do something else, and when the ship reaches it (or near to) it would pause the sim, and play a sound to let me know it was there.
I think it would be useful for a lot of things, especially with long trips where your not using timewarp, for example a trip to the moon could notify you when you're within close enough range to the moon to begin stabilizing orbit.
There are probably a load of other uses for something like this too, like refuelling the ship or when your within docking range of the ISS e.c.t.
The UMMU addon has a similar feature, where if one of the UMMU's is getting low on O2 it will notify you and pause the sim.
What do you guys thing? Anyone able to make something like this?
Many Thanks,
-NT
Just gotten a new laptop, and the first thing I did is copy my orbiter installation over from my old (so I had all 2gig of addons that I can't live without
) and I just came up with an idea.
I haven't been able to find an addon like this, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.
What I'm thinking of, is an addon that will pause the simulation, play a sound and perhaps popup some info on an MFD.
The kind of events I was thinking of would be if I was waiting to reach periapsis or apoapsis, or perhaps when I need to engage pro/retrograde for plane alignment, or perhaps when thrust needs to be activated for transfer and such.
This way, I could be running orbiter, get into orbit, and then when I'm waiting to reach apoapsis I could do something else, and when the ship reaches it (or near to) it would pause the sim, and play a sound to let me know it was there.
I think it would be useful for a lot of things, especially with long trips where your not using timewarp, for example a trip to the moon could notify you when you're within close enough range to the moon to begin stabilizing orbit.
There are probably a load of other uses for something like this too, like refuelling the ship or when your within docking range of the ISS e.c.t.
The UMMU addon has a similar feature, where if one of the UMMU's is getting low on O2 it will notify you and pause the sim.
What do you guys thing? Anyone able to make something like this?
Many Thanks,
-NT
