Building stations in space is beyond my knowledge for now, that's something i always want to do , but i'm always distracting by other Orbiter "actions"
, there have been people in the past collaborating (sharing their quicksave/current state .scn) to build space stations.
While i think about it, for those that didn't noticed, Orbiter comes with a nice flight recording feature. It's often used for video tutorials, as you can edit them and add texts.
To activate the recording :
Ingame, press F4 to bring the side menu and click on the Record/Play button.
It will bring a panel , type a replay name (by default the replay name will be the same as the one of the scenario you loaded).
Click on the arrow pointing down to open the drop down menu and set your recording options (if you untick "Record Time Acceleration", during the replay you'll be able to set yourself the accelerated time)
Then once you're setup, press on the red button "Record"
You can close this panel, and the F4 side panel too.
Once you're finished with recording press F4 to bring the side menu and click on the Record/Play button, then press the black "Stop" one to end your recording.
It will save a .scn file (named as you wished it) in the .\Scenarios\Playback folder
The flight datas will be saved to the .\Flight folder , in a subfolder named the same as your recorded .scn.
When you will want to watch your replay, in the Orbiter menu, open the Playback folder and select your replay, then load it, simple as that.
Using the scenario editor during the replay, you can spawn another vessel (or use another existing ship), take control of it and fly along your "ghost".
The flight datas can be interesting, by example in this thread about a very impressive record for a KSC to ISS challenge ( less than 10 minutes flight time ! ).
http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=14722You can try to beat it (good luck, it is a really awesome record) by challenging the "ghost" of this flight in a scenario , the XR2 piloted by dgatsoulis (the owner of this record) is starting on your right as soon as the scenario is finished to load, so don't waste time :
http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=182921&postcount=22(if you have no account on orbiter-forum, i uploaded it to
sendspace )
Extract the folders Scenarios and Flights that are in the downloaded archive, and put them in your Orbiter directory, don't worry it will overwrite nothing inside of the default Orbiter install.
Then in the menu, load the scenario named "Challenge KSC to ISS 10min"