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I'm having some difficulty making a .dll for my Chapman probes, I can't get the animations to work. When I edit the scenario file, and change "ANIM_0 -2 0" to "ANIM_0 -2 1" nothing on the spacecraft changes, and when I looked at the source files, I can't find anything where the mesh groups are...

I thought I remember reading once a technical .pdf from ULA that mentioned the possibility of a larger fairing, however that was a while ago, and that idea could have gone the way the dinosaurs by now. Or then again, I also could just be completely wrong, that does happen from time to time...

I actually had no idea my site was still up, I had shut it down due to lack of funds, but it seems someone else bought the site (with ads now, it didn't have that when I owned the domain). I have no idea why the larger pics don't work, but I suspect it has something to do with the ads. To...

Great addon. Would it be possible to have a larger fairing? Or even to use your own custom fairing?

"Uh oh, I think I locked the keys inside the lander."

The number one reason for the apparent different sizes, is because of field of view. Most people regularly use a FOV of 40 or 50 degrees for Orbiter. So picture taking 40 or 50 degrees of your natural field of vision, and compressing it to fit on your screen. In real-life, the width of your...

That's because it does have an atmosphere, it's just a very thin atmosphere. If you go into an extremely low orbit, you will notice the slow drag on the spacecraft if you watch the Orbit MFDs numbers. The atmosphere is only 0.3Pa, compared to Earth which has an atmosphere of 101400Pa. As for...

The textures for Charon, Nix, and Hydra are created from random sections of the moon surface as taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. I started with the raw data of the images, created jpegs, and used Gimp to stitch them together as seamlessly as possible. For the poles, I used the...

So beautiful..... should have sent.... a poet :cry:

Well, that's because a lot of my add-ons ARE rocks :P Thanks for the feedback guys, I'm glad everyone likes it! I've been working on this addon for a few months now, trying to get everything just right. BTW, if anybody is curious, the beige colour of Hydra wasn't chosen at random, apparently...

134340 Pluto was the first Trans-Neptunian Object known, and was considered a planet from its discovery in 1930 till it was downgraded to dwarf-planet status in 2006.  It is the only known TNO with three moons, and the second largest dwarf-planet.  This add-on seeks to create the most...

That's because the probe has blessed you with increased Isp :thumbup:

Yes it could, especially the trip there since they can generate much greater deltaVs. Instead of having to set up your transfer trajectory so that you arrive with as little deltaV as possible (which generally means a very long transfer), you can arrive there with a few thousands meters per...

The catch with going to an NEO, is that just because it comes close to Earth, it does not mean that it is easy to get to, doubly so if you want to come back. You got two burns to do to get a manned ship there, and Earth Ejection Burn (the easy one), and an Orbit Insertion Burn (the hard one)...

While I'd love to see the office of the president pay the bill, the knowledge that it would just be coming from the taxes that people pay kinds of ruins it. With that said, giving $300,000 to a library wouldn't be a waste of tax payer's money in my mind.

Ah, George Washington, such a rebel ;)

For most everyday things that I'm curious about, I love Wikipedia. It's easy to find information, and the vast majority of the time the information is correct, and most of the time it isn't correct it is obviously incorrect. Same thing if I'm writing an article, and I simply want to provide a...

It's great to see the list of geologically active places in the solar system expanding :)

Atlas 501 as per the fact-sheet.

....when you spend 3 hours (at least) creating a texture for the moon of an asteroid that isn't even bigger then an office building. ....when nothing less then the latest orbital elements for an asteroid/planet/dwarf planet will do. ....when you spend almost as long as NASA does in real-life...