Recent content by wizard1073

re: Visual C++ 2010 @jangofett287: I started using VC++ 2010 Express Edition and ran into the same problems. I had no problems using VC++ 2008 EE. I am trying to get my script-based MFDs into DLL modules, and had to choose the second route. Unfortunately, the scripts are sufficiently...

Two potential improvements 1) I thought of this for airplanes, but it would work just fine for spacecraft: A safety setting that uses antigravity to prevent crashes. This would be useful for mothership-based launches, where the autopilot is not necessarily to be relied upon. Gravity would...

Stability under time compression I tested it at the highest time compressions and it was stable, thank God! There's some angular instability if you use high time compression within atmosphere, but that is not related (I believe) to the MFD mechanism. That problem seems to be aerodynamic. The...

INTRODUCTION This MFD is designed to modify the gravitational effect on any vessel via a simple mechanism of using a virtual thruster to affect gravitational force.  The MFD is written in LUA and implemented through the ScriptMFD.  The motivation for this MFD is to make any vessel able to...

I created one LUA-based MFD, vessel persistent, fully functional with calls to setup, update, prestep, and the button-handling routines. By itself (listed alone in ScriptMFD.cfg) it runs just as it should. I run into a problem when I create a second, similar MFD in LUA. The first Script-based...

@Aldrasio, Crew Safety I asked myself this question during development of the MFD, but did not go through the process of answering it in a real-world sense. The short answer for Orbiter, however, is that I don't know how ship designers calculate the vulnerability of their crews. Perhaps we...

This MFD is designed to modify the mass of any vessel via a simple mechanism of changing the ratio of virtual mass to actual mass.  The MFD is written in LUA and implemented through the ScriptMFD.  The motivation for this MFD is to make the Arrow Freighter able to liftoff from Earth using its...