[News] Update of OrbiterSound - UMmu - UCGO for Orbiter 2016

[NorbertOrbinaut]

New video coming tuesday, I bet you'll like it also (hint: see image above)

On Tuesday, of course. Whatever day else 
I am very excited about the new video ...

[Jango Fett X 183]

Tuesday! Which Tuesday? this Tuesday? ugggg ! 


I know I know "welcome to the world of orbiter"   

[DanSteph]

Tuesday NEWS - New features of Arrow Freighter - The new Camera system

Please watch in HD 1440p 60fps if you can 
And don't forget to like and subscribe 

PS: I uploaded it Tuesday 29, not my fault if youtube took time to process 
Edit: oh, finally the date of the video is correct.

[PhantomFury]

Love it! That flyby cam is another thing that should be in the base game! And no worries, it's still Tuesday over here across the Atlantic!

[Colonel]

si! love it! i can not wait any longer  

[Charlotman]

Very beautiful ! 

But your link is broken . I put a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eM7GlzOa38

[DanSteph]

Very beautiful ! 

But your link is broken . I put a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eM7GlzOa38

Arrhhh, much thanks, I copied the text from orbiter forum post which doesn't have exactly the same url tag 

[yitianetie]

Awesome !

Keep the good work, Dan. I particularly like the cameras which allow to watch the docked deltaglider.

I don't imagine the time you spend in coding. Cheers up !

[DanSteph]

I don't imagine the time you spend in coding. Cheers up !

The fly by gave me solid headache....
But it work now... 

[Milouse]

Hello,

Great work and stunning views, Dan !


Milouse

[Drax Nal]

Hi Dan,

I just wanted to add my appreciation for all your time, effort, and dedication over the years. You are personally responsible for helping make Orbiter accessible and fun for me and, I'm sure thousands of other fans of the game.

Inasmuch as I can't wait to see the new updates to Arrow Freighter, DG-IV, and the others, I also realise getting those updates ready takes time and can't be rushed! So at your own pace, and when you're ready, I will be here eagerly awaiting to try them out.

Much love and appreciation from across the globe. 

[ClemG]

I love this video, images and views are stunnings. That's an impressive work!

[DanSteph]

Much thanks for your kind message Drax Nal and ClemG and welcome here

NEWS - Arrow Freighter new Antenna and mission system

Video coming soon (2-4 days)

New antenna:









New antenna display - Notice that the antenna really serve a purpose (see below)

(The screen was taken from Saturn Orbit, hence the long delay to transmit data to Earth)



New Permanent Mission system - Now there is a goal in Orbiter (work in progress)

[Captrem]

OMG!!!

I had completely given up on Orbiter since my beloved Arrow was not available. What a surprise tonight seeing first that you decided to update your work and second all the nice stuff coming with this update!!
I am so excited and I very much look forward to go on a solar system tour and release satellites everywhere!!

Thanks Dan for taking the time to update your addons, you make Orbiter fun!! 🙏👍

[NorbertOrbinaut]

Wow, wow, wow. It's hard to wait...

[DanSteph]

NEWS - More information on Arrow Freighter mission

Doing the mission code... you'll love it...  The system was a bit confuse in my head before start but now I think I get it.

First, now you can have several mission configuration, you are not limited anymore to "small Tour/GrandTour".
This mean you can download more mission, modify some etc. etc.
On the mission display you'll choose one mission in a list and it will be tied to vessel's name (An "AR01" can do one mission while an "AR02" can do another)
Once chosen, the mission will be "permanent" for any "AR01" vessel in Orbiter and it doesn't depend of one scenario.  Of course, you'd like to use always the current one if you doesn't want to cheat.
Progress, Completion, Success will be remembered across Orbiter launch.

Now a mission can have up to 20 planets with up to 5 Objective for each.
Objective can be:
Sat44 release (UCGO cargo exploration sat) with precise APA PEA and INC
Ground instrument deploying (require Arrow landing with precise Longitude/latitude)
Probe Release (UCGO)
Other ? not decided yet...

You'll receive a note given the precision, I just deployed a SAt44 around venus with PEA 295km APA 7700 km INC 85.5 (real data of an existing) and I got 99.94% precision detected by my code 

I plan also radio announce, for example when you unpack a Sat44 with Ummu "Satellite released, nominal orbit, well done etc"  or "Satellite released, but the orbit is not very precise"....

I plan also graphical success (mini cup on mission screen), success music and maybe real 3d medal displayed in the virtual cockpit for each completed mission (permanent, unless you delete the "stats" file)

Last, I'll probably add basic spawning capacity to the mission configuration, this mean that an "AR01" that have a mission might have a "permanent" Asteroid or any other basic object and this will not be dependent of a scenario. (There is already a "GeoSatCom" spawned permanently for communication)

I'm not sure if all this is clear for you, but in my head it is...

[Captrem]

Excellent idea to score the satellite deployment and landings accuracy !! we love a good challenge.

If it's all clear in your head, that's what matters!

Another idea with that big antenna could be to send some position/mission progress reports to Earth such as "in transit, in the SOI of XXX, in orbit, on grand..." or receive random reports/change in mission objectives..

[PhantomFury]

Oooh this is a great addition to the sim! Can't wait to give it a go with my noobish experience!

[n72.75]

Dan this is absolutely fantastic!

Sorry I've been absent for a while, I've been very busy with life.

[yitianetie]

Wow,

The Arrow Freighter was already a fantastic addon and it becomes better and better. I can't wait to see the final product 

[corondal]

DanSteph, tell me, is there a way to support you for the great work? i bought FSXP from u and i hope ur Orbiter mods stay free, but a way to contribute would be cool

[DanSteph]

NEWS - Arrow Freighter's missions system 

After several hundred lines of code (1674 exactly)  the mission system is coming well. 
It's complex in detail but will be very simple for you.

1-Choose a mission in the list
2-Restart Orbiter
3-Mission is now permanent, just follow the Objectives on the mission screen.

WORK IN PROGRESS ! - It miss more Objectives (rendez-vous, docking, others ?  and the mission display itself is not done...
(But the core system that detect and scan objective completion is done)







Here I just deployed a satellite C44 and got one radio sound message and status message:



And this is how a Mission configuration file will look like
(Again WORK IN PROGRESS, it miss a lot of fix and details)

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Mission configuration for the Arrow Freighter MK2 (2020) by DanSteph
// To create a new mission, copy this file, modify the filename "Mission_****.cfg" where "***" is a unique name (without space and special char)
// Once the file modified, you can distribute it or play with it.
//
// Parameters:
//------------
//
// "MissionName=" the name of the mission that will be shown on the mission's display (button and title, Max 40 chars)
// "Summary=" a short description (max 80 chars)
// "Difficulty=" self explanatory (max 40 chars)
// "<Description>" A longer description or guide, max 10 lines of max 110 chars ended by a line with "</description>".
//
// "StartPlanet=" Optional ! The name of a body were the mission should start (In orbit or landed).
// "EndPlanet=" Optional ! The name of a body were the mission should end (In orbit or landed).
//
// "Planet=" the name of a body followed by a number of "Objective=" and one "DataAmount=". (Max 20 planets sections)
// "DataAmount=" the total number of megabyte to be collected at 100% exploration (when all objectives are completed). The higher the number the longer it take to collect and transmit.
//
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
MissionName=Giant Exploration   // max 40 chars
Difficulty=Hard and Long // max 40 chars
StartPlanet=Moon      // optional, mission should start around or landed on this planet
EndPlanet=Earth      // optional, mission should end around or landed on this planet
Summary=Visit Jupiter and Saturn with some satellites launch and landing. //(max 80 chars)

<Description> //(max 10 lines of 110 chars)
Take-Off from Earth's Moon, head on to Jupiter's system, launch one satellite in Io's orbit, another in
Europa's Orbit, land on Europa and drope somes instruments. Then go to Saturn system and do almost the
same for Enceladus and Iapetus. Finally head on to Earth's Orbit.

Note: The start scenario have no cargo, you should take care to load the required one yourself.

Have Fun Commander !
</Description>

////////////////////////////// One planet:
Planet=Io       // name of a valid Orbiter's body followed by one "DataAmount=" and up to 5 "Objective="
DataAmount=2500.0   // number of science data in megabyte that will be collected on this planet.
Objective=Sat44Launch,APA=1500km, PEA=45km,Inc=85.5° // a satellite must be deployed with this data

////////////////////////////// One planet:
Planet=Europa       // name of a valid Orbiter's body followed by one "DataAmount=" and up to 5 "Objective="
DataAmount=2500.0   // number of science data in megabyte that will be collected on this planet.
Objective=Sat44Launch,APA=1500km, PEA=45km,Inc=85.5° // a satellite must be deployed with this data
Objective=LandArrow,Lon=-33.411341,Lat=41.129850,Range=1500m // You must land the Arrow at this location.

////////////////////////////// One planet:
Planet=Enceladus       // name of a valid Orbiter's body followed by one "DataAmount=" and up to 5 "Objective="
DataAmount=2500.0   // number of science data in megabyte that will be collected on this planet.
Objective=Sat44Launch,APA=1500km, PEA=45km,Inc=85.5° // a satellite must be deployed with this data

////////////////////////////// One planet:
Planet=Iapetus       // name of a valid Orbiter's body followed by one "DataAmount=" and up to 5 "Objective="
DataAmount=2500.0   // number of science data in megabyte that will be collected on this planet.
Objective=Sat44Launch,APA=1500km, PEA=45km,Inc=85.5° // a satellite must be deployed with this data
Objective=LandArrow,Lon=-33.411341,Lat=41.129850,Range=1500m // You must land the Arrow at this location.



////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Start Scenario
// 1-Copy here the start situation after "<start scenario>".
// 2-Replace all vessel's name with <VesselName> (eg: change all 'AR01' to '<VesselName>')
// 3-Don't put anything after this scenario as the whole end of the file is used!
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
<start scenario>
BEGIN_DESC
This is the start scenario for the Arrow Freighter mission 'Giant Exploration'
END_DESC

BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
  System Sol
  Date MJD 78671.5465050573
END_ENVIRONMENT

BEGIN_FOCUS
  Ship <VesselName>
END_FOCUS

BEGIN_CAMERA
  TARGET <VesselName>
  MODE Extern
  POS 1.574579 -128.230982 2.454433
  TRACKMODE Ground Moon
  GROUNDLOCATION -33.40347 41.13194 13.41
  FOV 40.00
  BEGIN_PRESET
    Ground:<VesselName>:50.00:Moon -33.42832 41.11517 5.78
  END_PRESET
END_CAMERA

BEGIN_HUD
  TYPE Surface
END_HUD

BEGIN_MFD Left
  TYPE Orbit
  PROJ Frame
  FRAME Ecliptic
  REF Earth
END_MFD

BEGIN_MFD Right
  TYPE Surface
  SPDMODE 1
END_MFD

BEGIN_VC
END_VC

BEGIN_SHIPS
ISS:ProjectAlpha_ISS
  STATUS Orbiting Earth
  RPOS 1310957.655 6282854.710 -2043029.076
  RVEL 7402.9111 -1860.0523 -960.4685
  AROT -142.311 -34.746 145.463
  VROT -0.1003 0.0202 -0.0094
  AFCMODE 7
  IDS 0:588 100 1:586 100 2:584 100 3:582 100 4:580 100
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  XPDR 466
END
<VesselName>:UCGO\Vessels\UCGOArrowFreighter
  STATUS Landed Moon
  POS -33.4113406 41.1298504
  HEADING 200.75
  ALT 20.798
  AROT -131.845 -18.420 139.168
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:0.497109
  IDS 0:140 100 1:145 100 2:150 100
  NAVFREQ 260 0
  XPDR 320
  O2_RESERVE 70.00
  SkinName NasaWhite
  SAVEVAR00 0§0,1§0.00,2§1,3§1.00,4§0,5§0.00,6§0,7§1,8§0.00,9§1,10§0.00,11§0.00,12§0,13§2,14§2,15§0.00,16§0,17§0,18§0,19§1,40§0.04,41§4,42§0,43§0,44§0.00,45§0,46§0.00,47§0.00,48§0,80§0,81§0.00,82§0,83§0,
  UMMUCREW Capt-Jamie_Young-50-78-71
  UMMUCREW Tech-Hector_Hart-24-79-70
  UMMUCREW Eng-Mary_Light-55-60-84
  UMMUCREW Tech-Sofia_Meier-55-68-80
  UMMUCREW Tech-Edda_Paccioretti-23-72-83
  UMMUCREW Sci-Frank_Edwards-36-70-79
  UMMUCREW Doc-Yasmin_OMoore-24-61-80
  UMMUCREW Tech-Sidney_Brown-28-61-75
  UMMUCREW Eng-Gunda_Gerson-33-60-81
  UMMUCREW Sci-William_Coates-50-73-71
  UMMUCREW Tech-Donald_Bentley-46-68-80
  UMMUCREW Eng-Walter_Healey-54-78-80
  UMMUCREW Sci-Vetka_Tomsko-50-67-74
  UMMUCREW Geo-Nevaeh_Pearson-25-61-69
  UMMUCREW Eng-Jakob_Lang-48-75-74
  UMMUCREW Spe-Kashedy_Rossi-26-74-73
  UMMUCREW Bio-Susanne_Lachs-33-74-80
  UMMUCREW Sec-Casey_Burke-36-72-84
  UMMUCREW Min-Emgo_Phillips-41-70-83
  UMMUCREW Vip-Arkandr_Gachana-45-67-70
  UCGO @@0,1,1,147,CargoExploSat44UMmu,@@1,1,1,147,CargoExploSat44UMmu,@@2,1,1,1134,CargoOxygen,
  UCGO @@3,1,1,1134,CargoOxygen,@@4,1,1,1134,CargoOxygen,@@5,1,1,1134,CargoOxygen,
  UCGO @@6,1,1,1048,CargoSpaceFuel,@@7,1,0,0,@@8,1,0,0,@@9,1,0,0,@@10,1,0,0,@@11,1,0,0,
  UCGO @@12,1,0,0,@@13,1,0,0,@@14,1,0,0,@@15,1,0,0,@@16,1,0,0,@@17,1,0,0,@@18,1,0,0,
  UCGO @@19,1,0,0,@@20,1,0,0,@@21,1,0,0,@@22,1,0,0,@@23,1,0,0,@@24,1,0,0,@@25,1,0,0,
  UCGO @@26,1,0,0,@@27,1,0,0,@@28,1,0,0,@@29,1,0,0,@@30,1,0,0,@@31,1,0,0,@@32,1,0,0,
  UCGO @@33,1,0,0,@@34,1,0,0,@@35,1,0,0,@@36,1,0,0,@@37,1,0,0,@@38,1,0,0,@@39,1,0,0,
  Antenna 0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 GeoSatEarth
END
GeoSatEarth:UCGO\Cargos\CargoExploSat44UMmu
  STATUS Orbiting Earth
  RPOS 25852176.915 -27415621.716 -19944593.473
  RVEL 1273.5241 -746.9961 2677.5569
  AROT 0.000 -0.000 0.000
  AFCMODE 24
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  XPDR 260
  CargoUnpacked 1
END
END_SHIPS

[DanSteph]

DanSteph, tell me, is there a way to support you for the great work? i bought FSXP from u and i hope ur Orbiter mods stay free, but a way to contribute would be cool

Much thanks for your purchase...
I don't have any donation system, but you can get one more copy of FsPX

Being an independent coder is not easy, after I finish with Orbiter I'd better do a good commercial project
else I'll be in trouble...

But I love the Arrow, I can't stop now... 

[yitianetie]

Nice !

Will we be able to customize missions ?

[Pappy2]

Alors là !!!! 

C'est vraiment EXTRAORDINAIRE