MerA
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How do you travel between planets using TransX or IPMFD? Please don't say read the manual etc..
Advanced Question Interplanetary Travel
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KuatYards
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I use IMFD, select menu, course, tgt, then type the name of the target body, then set the launch time to something, press pg, then AB... then, happy flight
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Then, if it's not enough, well...read the manual.
Izack
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There are comprehensive tutorials available around here, and elsewhere. [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4142"]IMFD Full Manual and Playbacks[/ame] at OrbitHangar is the essential guide to IMFD, and there is a set of video tutorials by flytandem uploaded at TexFilm's channel.
Tommy
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I'm sorry, but Read the Manual is the correct answer. Mark and I spent months creating the IMFD Full Manual (mentioned above). I have no desire to spend an hour or more doing that work over again here in the forum just because you don't want to read a manual.
Interplanetary travel is complicated - a "short answer" is going to leave you with more questions than it answers. This is, after all, rocket science!
Interplanetary travel is complicated - a "short answer" is going to leave you with more questions than it answers. This is, after all, rocket science!
One thing I'm not sure of from your posting history: have you docked with the ISS yet? If not, do that first (and that's a big milestone, nobody'd expect a beginner to find that anything but challenging). Interplanetary travel builds on the skills needed to do that, if you don't have a good idea of orbital planes yet you'll just get lost tackling the more advanced stuff.
Screamer7
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Yes, read the manuals and then practice it.
That is the fastest way to learn orbital mechanics.
That is how I did it.
That is the fastest way to learn orbital mechanics.
That is how I did it.
Tommy
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I know that we sound harsh and unforgiving. I'm sorry about that, but we get this all the time. Orbiter is a Simulator, not a game. It's hard and complicated, because spaceflight is hard and complicated.
There aren't easy answers, or cheat codes. If you want to get from Earth to Mars, you will actually have to learn something beyond "what buttons do I push?".
That's what most of us like about Orbiter. It pushes us, gives us a reason to learn more than we already knew. If that isn't for you, than Orbiter isn't for you. If, on the other hand, you enjoy the challenge, you've come to the right place.
Read the Manual, follow the tutorials, and when you get stumped - ask specific questions.
When I see a post asking me "How do I do Interplanetary Travel" my answer will be "RTFM".
When I see a post saying "I've tried this, this, and this, and I've tried to follow such and such tutorial, but I still don't understand the difference between a source plane transfer and a target plane transfer?" I will do my best to answer your question. Sometimes that will mean pointing you to yet another tutorial - one that you may not find on your own but answers your question.
Sometimes it will mean I expand on the information you found in some tutorial. We realize that this is not easy, and we want to help - we just want to see that you are serious about learning.
The process I developed for "IMFD Full Manual/Playbacks" (it's on page 30 in blue text -8 repeatable steps) is as close to a "push this button, then this one" kind of tutorial you will find for Interplanetary transfers. It isn't designed to be "the best way", rather it's designed to be simple and repeatable and apply to ANY transfer IMFD's Target Intercept is capable of making. It isn't universal - it won't get you from Earth to Titan - but it will get you from Earth to Saturn, and another section will explain how to get from Saturn Orbit to Titan Orbit. It will also help you understand why you can't just go from Earth straight to Titan (still working on that particular tutorial - it gets quite complicated for reasons I don't want to explain yet again).
We want to help, but don't ask us for the "Silver Platter" answer. Read the manuals, try the tutorials, and when you get stumped ask specific and we will answer them as best as we can. We love to share our knowledge - but we aren't getting paid to hold your hand.
That said, if you really want a personal, specific tutorial, PM me. Prices (in US currency, thank you) are available :lol:
There aren't easy answers, or cheat codes. If you want to get from Earth to Mars, you will actually have to learn something beyond "what buttons do I push?".
That's what most of us like about Orbiter. It pushes us, gives us a reason to learn more than we already knew. If that isn't for you, than Orbiter isn't for you. If, on the other hand, you enjoy the challenge, you've come to the right place.
Read the Manual, follow the tutorials, and when you get stumped - ask specific questions.
When I see a post asking me "How do I do Interplanetary Travel" my answer will be "RTFM".
When I see a post saying "I've tried this, this, and this, and I've tried to follow such and such tutorial, but I still don't understand the difference between a source plane transfer and a target plane transfer?" I will do my best to answer your question. Sometimes that will mean pointing you to yet another tutorial - one that you may not find on your own but answers your question.
Sometimes it will mean I expand on the information you found in some tutorial. We realize that this is not easy, and we want to help - we just want to see that you are serious about learning.
The process I developed for "IMFD Full Manual/Playbacks" (it's on page 30 in blue text -8 repeatable steps) is as close to a "push this button, then this one" kind of tutorial you will find for Interplanetary transfers. It isn't designed to be "the best way", rather it's designed to be simple and repeatable and apply to ANY transfer IMFD's Target Intercept is capable of making. It isn't universal - it won't get you from Earth to Titan - but it will get you from Earth to Saturn, and another section will explain how to get from Saturn Orbit to Titan Orbit. It will also help you understand why you can't just go from Earth straight to Titan (still working on that particular tutorial - it gets quite complicated for reasons I don't want to explain yet again).
We want to help, but don't ask us for the "Silver Platter" answer. Read the manuals, try the tutorials, and when you get stumped ask specific and we will answer them as best as we can. We love to share our knowledge - but we aren't getting paid to hold your hand.
That said, if you really want a personal, specific tutorial, PM me. Prices (in US currency, thank you) are available :lol:
MerA
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"One thing I'm not sure of from your posting history: have you docked with the ISS yet? If not, do that first (and that's a big milestone, nobody'd expect a beginner to find that anything but challenging). Interplanetary travel builds on the skills needed to do that, if you don't have a good idea of orbital planes yet you'll just get lost tackling the more advanced stuff."
I fact, I have. I have gone all the way up to lunar transfers and then did one of those. (now I have done 6 lunar transfers)
I fact, I have. I have gone all the way up to lunar transfers and then did one of those. (now I have done 6 lunar transfers)
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It's not about how many times you have traveled between point A to point B. The question is did you understand the why the maneuvers you performed got you from point A to point B.
