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Okay so I fail at math >.> I've created a system for customized camera/telescope mounts, which works spiffy save for the fact that I have no bloody clue how to pan/tilt the things. Actually, I have an idea, just no clue on how to translate: pan(rad) + tilt(rad) ->...

If you're unable to select the engine you want in a custom dll ship, this may resolve the issue: http://orbiterfixes.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/burntimecalc2.0/Modules/Plugin/BTC2.0.dll The summary of changes made is here, as well as the full source code...

Hi, I'm trying to cache an increasingly complex overlay for the hud, as clbkDrawHUD procs ~150 times per second...and there is no need to fetch data, recalculate geometry, parse html, etc, more than 10 times a second. I had hoped to do this by spewing a buffered surface via oapiBlt onto the hud...

The input system of TransX has always irked me as sometimes I just want to type in a value, without having to click my way there via +/-adj and ++/-- So I added an [ENT] button that lets one do just that. Then, while testing, I got distracted by the disappearing-graphics issue, so I fixed that...

Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts - Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test. This is a fork of Sputnik's CVEL Orion, a interplanetary craft that moves by rapidly flinging small nuclear bombs behind itself. Orion was seriously considered in the 60s, but was deemed too problematic; while...

Am I correct in concluding that the reason the autopilot acts like a drunken monkey with something heavy docked, is a mass issue as well as a COG issue? I've used ShiftCG() or SetThrusterRef() to center the RCS arrays around the COG, however, even with something (heavy) docked along the...

I love highly interactive ships with a ton of functions, however they can be frustrating if these functions depend on keybindings. While I'm not expecting everything to have a DGIV style panel, sometimes an addon is outright byzantine: One popular addon provides excellent PDF documentation that...