Re: Stationbuilder: new release

["Duncan Sharpe" <duncan.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure lots of people will be interested in the fuel transfer MFD - I
certainly will be. I'm sure Orbiter has been set up with less fuel this time
in order to provoke exactly this reaction amongst developers.

I hope your MFD is a big success.

Duncan

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Henderson" <orbiter@aibs.org.uk>
To: <orbiter@firedrake.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Stationbuilder: new release


> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Duncan Sharpe wrote:
>
> > See your point - but it's equally nice to use space stations or
unpowered
> > tanks as refuelling points, and you need to get the fuel in them
somehow.
>
> Yup, we have a couple of tanks in the present project (Rog's excellent
> one, although it's a bit big for my launcher) and the hastily constructed
> jumbo-orb. Since they're attached the station, I didn't think it too much
> of a problem to allow the astronaughts to wander through the docking port
> and turn on the switch. ;-)
>
> Seriously, though, it's easy enough to do, I just didn't have time last
> night.
>
> On another point, the flow rate isn't controlled in this version. It'll do
> 10kg per MFD update (so that could be 10kg/s, or 20, or 40 if you have a
> really quick refresh rate). Also fuel won't flow when you switch to
> external mode. There are probably numerous other 'features' too (I don't
> know what switching ships during a transfer will do for your sanity
> either), but I thought it would be best to have the capability ASAP.
>
> I assume Roger is working on is ship still. I *might* be able to do some
> programming over Xmas (spending it with the folks at home, so only have
> the laptop), so if you need anything looked into for the ship Rog, let me
> know.
>
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