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<div class='bluenote' style='font-size:16pt; text-align:center;'>Welcome to OrbiterWiki</div> | <div class='bluenote' style='font-size:16pt; text-align:center;'>Welcome to OrbiterWiki</div> | ||
| − | This wiki is concerned with material relating to '''[http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html Orbiter]''', a space-flight simulator. We are collecting information and documentation about its use and how to write your own missions and addons. In addition there is technical data about Physics and spacflight in general | + | This wiki is concerned with material relating to '''[http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html Orbiter]''', a space-flight simulator. We are collecting information and documentation about its use and how to write your own missions and addons. In addition there is technical data about Physics and spacflight in general. If you still can't find the answer, try the [http://www.orbitersim.com/Forum/default.aspx Orbiter Forums]. With over a thousand registered users there is a good chance someone can help. |
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Revision as of 09:52, 12 April 2006
Welcome to OrbiterWiki
This wiki is concerned with material relating to Orbiter, a space-flight simulator. We are collecting information and documentation about its use and how to write your own missions and addons. In addition there is technical data about Physics and spacflight in general. If you still can't find the answer, try the Orbiter Forums. With over a thousand registered users there is a good chance someone can help.
Pilot section
- New to Orbiter? a good place to start.
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Companies using orbiter - a portal for professional use of orbiter
- Too quickly asked questions - unanswered questions from Orbiter chatrooms
- Orbiter tutorials - your first flight, how to fly to Mars, etc.
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- List of Addons - custom ships, instruments, bases, orbital stations and even planets
- Celestial mechanics (article on Wikipedia) - what a pilot must know in order to understand how a ship behaves in space
- Orbiter Videos - A site with tutorials and some examples
Developer section
Information and documentation for developers:
- Addon Tutorials - various tutorials on making your own addons
- SDK documentation - how to create your own modules, instruments and spaceships
- Tools - a list of tools which may be useful to addon developers
- References - Blueprints, schematics, etc.
- addon etiquette - some guidlines
- Libraries - developers' libraries
Contributor section
- Before you start editing, please read the OrbiterWiki Rules.
- Guidelines for Page Capitalization
- If you don't know how to edit, you can read Help (this link goes to another website). Please practice editing in the Sandbox.
Important for contributers: Discussion thread for Guidelines, etc on m6 Forum Orbiter Wiki Thread on m6 Forum
Please note that at the moment OrbiterWiki links are entirely case-sensitive, including the first letter! This means that OrbiterWiki:Sandbox is not the same as OrbiterWiki:sandbox. Sorry about the inconvenience, but that was necessary for the API functions. We are working on changing this to be entirely case-insensitive.