Space Shuttle Ultra 1.25 Revision B development

[SiameseCat]

SC that launch works fine for me, but when I switch to free mode in the DAP the thrusters won't fire, to perform the plus X and pitch manuever.

Make sure the Flt Cntrl Pwr switch is ON.

 

[Donamy]

Make sure the Flt Cntrl Pwr switch is ON.

Cool, that did it !! Why don't people tell me about these new added features ? :thumbup:

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When was this camera added ? Could it be moved to the other side, and forward on the ET ?

 

[Urwumpe]

When was this camera added ? Could it be moved to the other side, and forward on the ET ?

I think I did this when I reworked the camera VC interface, a long time ago... I remember doing something like that.

 

[Poscik]

Cool, that did it !! Why don't people tell me about these new added features ? :thumbup:

SC wrote about it few posts earlier
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=126934&postcount=198

 

[Donamy]

SC wrote about it few posts earlier
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=126934&postcount=198

I must have missed that one. :embarrassed:

I think I did this when I reworked the camera VC interface, a long time ago... I remember doing something like that.

Could it be updated ?

 

[Urwumpe]

Could it be updated ?

No, it is cast in stone and can't be changed...just kidding.:lol:

All I need is a long wish-list of modifications for the engineering camera positions, the rest is straight forward. I can even move the position data into the configuration file, if you need to have it that way.

 

[Donamy]

What ever is easiest for you, although if it could be attached to the ET, that would be the bee's knees. :thumbup:

 

[Urwumpe]

What ever is easiest for you, although if it could be attached to the ET, that would be the bee's knees. :thumbup:

Would require a focus change, but it is possible to make this automatically when the ET is discarded AND change the position of the ET view right after the focus change.

 

[Donamy]

When do you think it will be ready ? :tumbleweed:


j/k :thumbup:

 

[Urwumpe]

When do you think it will be ready ? :tumbleweed:
j/k :thumbup:

Let me get this added to the ET, by making the ET equipped with a VC. Then I can try the rest... Since it does not touch the DPS stuff I have broken so far, i could commit it without risking making the rest of the team angry.

 

[Donamy]

I promise I'm not angry,just yank'n yer chain.

 

[Urwumpe]

I promise I'm not angry,just yank'n yer chain.

Didn't understand it differently.

It is not that I am annoyed or under pressure because of it, you gave me a puzzle to solve and I just think about it...

If I wouldn't do this, I would now work on the DEU format buffer reverse engineering. I know that I am crazy doing it that way, but I can't do it differently.

 

[Donamy]

I know, it's a detail thing, right ?

 

[DaveS]

Donamy: Could you send me the PLBD radiator panel markings texture in *.psd format please?

 

[Urwumpe]

I know, it's a detail thing, right ?

A bit more, it moves the format of the DPS displays into files and so that adding/changing/removing displays can be done by putting new displays into the DEU format file, just by editing the file with a editor and select a new format load on the Mass Memory Units in the configuration file.

Detail thing would be having the COAS on the commanders window during launch.

 

[DaveS]

Let me get this added to the ET, by making the ET equipped with a VC. Then I can try the rest... Since it does not touch the DPS stuff I have broken so far, i could commit it without risking making the rest of the team angry.

Speaking of ET camera, how about making the position of it a mission file parameter? Prior to RTF after Columbia, they flew a RocketCam on STS-112/9A mounted on the LOX tank cable tray.

For RTF they moved the camera inside the LOX feedline fairing on the intertank to protect it from what happened with the STS-112 RocketCam: it got smudged by the RH SRB FWD BSMs!

Here's what the view from the STS-112 RocketCam looked like:

 

[Urwumpe]

Speaking of ET camera, how about making the position of it a mission file parameter? Prior to RTF after Columbia, they flew a RocketCam on STS-112/9A mounted on the LOX tank cable tray.

I think it would be done best by implementing a mechanism in the mission files for selecting the external tank version used, for example by a class name string "SLWT-xxxxx" ...

This way we could also address many more features of the historic tanks, like implementing the first Shuttle launches.

 

[DaveS]

I think it would be done best by implementing a mechanism in the mission files for selecting the external tank version used, for example by a class name string "SLWT-xxxxx" ...

This way we could also address many more features of the historic tanks, like implementing the first Shuttle launches.

That would be good. And each ET designation is ET-xx. STS-114 for example flew with ET-121, a modified SLWT.

 

[Urwumpe]

Isn't "ET-xxx" just the serial number of the ET in the flight manifest?

 

[DaveS]

Isn't "ET-xxx" just the serial number of the ET in the flight manifest?

Maybe, but LMSSC uses it as well in NASA status reports as well in internal MAF status reports.