Author Topic: DGIV bug: "Cabin Condition Critital" warning at south pole (Read 4466 times)

pile0nades · 30 July 2007, 14:59:07

Start the "Landed KSC departure to ISS" scenario, and use the Scenario Editor to move the DGIV exactly on the south pole:
longitude 0, latitude -90, heading 0. Immediately, I get a "Cabin Condition Critical" warning. On the lower panel, on the
Cabin data display, the O2 level jumped to over 7000% (may be different), and is decreasing very rapidly, like it's leaking.
When it hits 0, it goes back to 7000% and repeats. Also, the contaminant level becomes -7.3015 (also may be a different number).

Time-accelerating to 10x and back fixes it temporarily, but it comes back after a few seconds in 1x. This also happens at the
north pole with longitude 180, latitude 90, heading 180.

DanSteph · Reply #1 - 31 July 2007, 04:58:25

Very strange things, thanks for report

Dan

Quick_Nick · Reply #2 - 11 August 2007, 03:55:17

But can you call it a DGIV bug? And if not why should it be reported? These bugs and such have already been
reported about Orbiter in general. It doesn't like the poles.
EDIT: ok, i see. this post was before the reports on the orbiter forum. Anyways, I believe this is Orbiter related, not DGIV

Post Edited ( 08-11-07 03:56 )

DanSteph · Reply #3 - 11 August 2007, 05:17:53

Thanks for report nick, I wasn't aware of that...

Orbiter doesn't like the pole ?

Dan

Pagir · Reply #4 - 11 August 2007, 05:32:48

I knew Fs2004 didn't like the poles, but neither Orbiter ???

Pagir

woo482 · Reply #5 - 11 August 2007, 19:08:03

Orbiter dose like the poles I allways go thear I have made bases it works good

Quick_Nick · Reply #6 - 14 August 2007, 00:51:13

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woo482 wrote:
Orbiter dose like the poles I allways go thear I have made bases it works good

But is your ship RIGHT on the pole? Not 89.9999999*S, but the full 90? And is your base? I'm wondering if there are
any effects from a base on the pole or if it's just the ships.

woo482 · Reply #7 - 14 August 2007, 01:05:10

Oh I thought he ment on antarctica Not at the magnetic pole sorry

felixar90 · Reply #8 - 14 August 2007, 05:19:27

it's not magnetic pole neither, but geographic pole, on the earth axe. But I wonder... what effect doest it have on other ship?
DgIII and IV (and few other) are the only one with life support, and it seems it is the only thing that is messed up no?

ronin_109 · Reply #9 - 25 August 2007, 04:22:09

Lots of weird things happen in the poles. Tried the South Pole "bug" but all I got was a weird terrain and even weirder
atmosphere. That was it. No "Cabin Condition critical" warnings, only ''critical O2 level warnings".

Also try longitude 0, latitude 0 and heading 0. You would probably see a blue cross in external view. Look around the ship
and the ocean turns into a grayish color. Almost the same color in a runway.

felixar90 · Reply #10 - 25 August 2007, 04:59:45

what occurs if you passes ABOVE the poles?

James.Denholm · Reply #11 - 18 September 2007, 07:09:30

I wonder... maybe it has something to do with the whole "sphere" thing... from what I guess, computers don't draw
circles, spheres, curves etc. very well. maybe it has something to do with that??? Hmmmmmmmm... of course, how
well a computer can draw a sphere depends on how much processing power it has, so as computers improve, the
better the spheres will get. I don't think that they will ever realy be perfect.

Any way, it may just solve things to move just that little bit off the pole. But I to, do wonder, what happens if you
pass over the poles of doom? Though you will probably need to have a perfectly geo-stationary orbit to notice a
diffrence.