Editing vMC

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'''Virtual Mission Control''' or '''vMC''' is a network interface by Synchronous Technologies Ltd.

Virtual Mission Control (vMC) is a software application designed to support remote telemetry and flight control operations using Martin Schweiger’s Orbiter space flight simulation software. A remote telemetry viewing application (vMC/Workstation) is provided, but other programs using the vMC core components can also be created using the vMC SDK Manual.

The vMC/Workstation program supports the creation of new display pages using either a built-in page editor, or by use of compiled plug-ins (ActiveX custom controls). vMC consists of four software components that need to be installed on your PC:

*''vMC/Workstation'' - the front end of vMC, where you can view telemetry in a wide variety of different formats, and send commands to a spacecraft in Orbiter.
*''vMC/Server'' - the communications control element of vMC, that handles all network traffic between components (and allows you to use vMC over a LAN or the Internet, if you wish).
*''Orbiter.dll'' - an ActiveX in-process server component that translates vMC messages into something that Orbiter can understand.
*''Orbipc.dll'' - an Orbiter plug-in module that links Orbiter.dll to Orbiter itself.

Please note that in order to allow these components to communicate, vMC requires that you have a TCP/IP network connection configured on your PC, even if you are only ever going to use vMC on the same PC as Orbiter. This connection can be a local loopback adapter, but presumably if you downloaded Orbiter and vMC, then you have an Internet connection anyway this will serve the purpose.

==See also==
[[Multi-player]] -- an overview of multi-player add-ons for Orbiter

[[Category:Add-ons]]
[[Category:Multi-player add-ons]]