dansteph
Addon Developer
I answer quickly to some questions:
"that you could make the solar panels larger"
Solar panel are maybe the only thing in base that are realistic. They would really fit in box, are easy to manipulate and install for a man, if you need more power just install ten of them
"This was certainly the goal of the original package"
Sure, such ideas are in my mind and was always my goal since DGIII. It's not over, one can push things a bit further but this would be a whole game in itself. Anyway details make the difference and here we can still add a lot.
"Would this really need to be the case for vessels that have O2 cabin pressure, such as the DGIV? ? In real life, STS and ISS astronauts do not wear EVA suits once in orbit, only during launch and reentry. Otherwise they just wear their flight suits"
What happen in vessel itself is responsability of authors, not UMMU. Would be really to complex to manage for UMMU. Well...the best reason is: I don't have so much time
"to make your fuel dumping in the DGIV visable from the outside view"
Last time I checked they worked ? you have a tiny smoke comming from wings when dumping fuel !?
"Dan, regarding the DGIV docking bay on Arrow: does a DGIV just pull up with its docking port open"
Door bay close/open and inside you have a docking port just like ISS.
It may be tricky to enter the bay and then forward a bit to reach the dock
(there is not much place) but hey... we are all great pilots
"Seriously, though, how do you get so much done?"
Started my first prog with a VIC20 (ancestor of Commodore 64) and my first modelisation was on amiga (at this time 40 poly was a huge model )
Now I work about 16h/24h non-stop. Once finished I really must return to real life. Money command.
NEWS:
Mhhhh I'm trying to rework the displacement method of UMMU, sorry to say but Orbiter is a real crap with ground contact physic. I'll try a bit but will not spend hundred hours on it. (now my UMMU jump on keypress , but it doesn't look really exceptionnal (boring after a while) and there is many problems to solve. It would require animated model and 1-2 month work to look good, I don't have this time for UMMU.
Cheers
Dan
"that you could make the solar panels larger"
Solar panel are maybe the only thing in base that are realistic. They would really fit in box, are easy to manipulate and install for a man, if you need more power just install ten of them
"This was certainly the goal of the original package"
Sure, such ideas are in my mind and was always my goal since DGIII. It's not over, one can push things a bit further but this would be a whole game in itself. Anyway details make the difference and here we can still add a lot.
"Would this really need to be the case for vessels that have O2 cabin pressure, such as the DGIV? ? In real life, STS and ISS astronauts do not wear EVA suits once in orbit, only during launch and reentry. Otherwise they just wear their flight suits"
What happen in vessel itself is responsability of authors, not UMMU. Would be really to complex to manage for UMMU. Well...the best reason is: I don't have so much time
"to make your fuel dumping in the DGIV visable from the outside view"
Last time I checked they worked ? you have a tiny smoke comming from wings when dumping fuel !?
"Dan, regarding the DGIV docking bay on Arrow: does a DGIV just pull up with its docking port open"
Door bay close/open and inside you have a docking port just like ISS.
It may be tricky to enter the bay and then forward a bit to reach the dock
(there is not much place) but hey... we are all great pilots
"Seriously, though, how do you get so much done?"
Started my first prog with a VIC20 (ancestor of Commodore 64) and my first modelisation was on amiga (at this time 40 poly was a huge model
)Now I work about 16h/24h non-stop. Once finished I really must return to real life. Money command.
NEWS:
Mhhhh I'm trying to rework the displacement method of UMMU, sorry to say but Orbiter is a real crap with ground contact physic. I'll try a bit but will not spend hundred hours on it. (now my UMMU jump on keypress , but it doesn't look really exceptionnal (boring after a while) and there is many problems to solve. It would require animated model and 1-2 month work to look good, I don't have this time for UMMU.
Cheers
Dan
