Question A very general question about addons; general rules

[Pithecanthropu]

Hello everyone.

I've been managing to work through some issues I was having with Orbiter Diagnostic and the V2-Bumper addon at MSC. While I still cannot get that particular spacecraft off the pad (still crashing on loading), I was at least able to get OrbiterDiagnostic up and running so I can see where some of the problems are. One thing, I'm having trouble finding multistage.dll anywhere.

Aside from that, however, I noticed that some of my attempts to extract addon files had gone in and extra folder deep (or I think so). So the path of some of the configuration files was c:\orbiter\config\config.

That's wrong isn't it? Generally shouldn't all components of an addon go into existing folders as appropriate? So the new meshes should go in ../Orbiter/meshes, new configs in ../Orbiter/configs, and so on? Is there a custom or standard that's followed by the Orbiter community in this regard?


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Similarly, I should not see an "orbiter" folder in the main Orbiter folder, unless I put it there myself?

 

[Tommy]

You are correct. It sounds like someone packed an add-on slightly incorrectly. You should be able to extract into the Orbiter root folder, and it sounds like at least one of those add-ons needs to be extracted into the folder that contains the Orbiter root folder.

 

[TSPenguin]

Tommy is right. There are no rules for packing addons and some addons need editing of configuration files.
I recommend opening the package before taking any action and reading the included documentation.