Fly your very own Firefly! by jmbrock

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Fly your very own Firefly!

POSTED BY: JMBROCK
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 21:33
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:35 PM

There is a program for Windows out there called Orbiter, which is a spaceflight simulator with a steepish learning curve, but fairly simple if you just want to mess around.

In any case, there is a massive add-on community for this program, people that make ships and planets and stations and things. There is a very popular add-on archive site called Orbit Hangar. On this site is the JUMBO Firefly with a plethora of working features including two fully functional shuttles, Serenity hovermule, cargo, landing gear, rotating engine pods, cargo bay with door, virtual cockpit and two kinds of Firefly drive to choose from. There are also other add-ons for this add-on, including scenario packs and a fix for the cargo door (which is a bit odd to use at first).

This is the add-on which originally got me interested in the show, and I recommend both it and Orbiter to anyone interested.

Here are the links:

Orbiter is here:
http://www.orbitersim.com

The add-on is here: http://orbithangar.com/advsearch.php?search=name&text=firefly&OrbVer=d
efault

Remember, you want the JUMBO version.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:23 PM

TWITCH

Thanks for posting this! Last time I used Orbiter was several years ago. Looks like a lot has happened since then, including being able to fly a Firefly. W00T!

Downloading now.

Thanks again!

-- Twitch

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:29 PM

DARKFLY

Just to help anybody with getting to understand ORBITER,I had a thread about a month & half ago with a brief explanation about ORBITER & some links to some tutorials & sites to download add ons & ORBITER.
at...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=23082&m=360328#360328

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Things are about to get interesting...Define interesting...Oh GOD oh GOD we're all going to die.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:33 PM

WINDSTRUCK

My problem now is how to get back to Earth.
Currently somewhere around Mars orbiting.

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