Mick West's latest activity

Under the view menu you can now toggle the display of a frame counter, video time, sim time, in variosu formats. You can position them within the video view. This also works in the stand-alone video viewer...

It seems to lag at a very small amount sometimes, not the 15 frames of the fly-off.

Using the slightly better quality version here, I converted it to real-time 30fps (29.97) The question that the promoters like Marik are holding out on is if the panning continues during the "fly-off". It's a little hard to see with all the...

Well, this is annoying. I've only just noticed that the version I was working on is actually a cropped and degraded version. The YouTube video starts out with 1m24s of the object first flying (apparent) left (west), and then right (east). It's...

Has anyone considered this point? RPOINT to Rate G changes the flight control system from "hold this position/track" to "maneuver at this rate," providing the pilot with more responsive control over the aircraft's physical movement in space...

It happens in other places, that one's just the greatest.

To expand on that: You get dark regions when recording from a CRT (an older Cathode Ray Tube TV), because the picture is built up from top to bottom. So if your exposure is not a multiple of the frame time of the TV (like 1/60, 1/30) then you...

Same reason the word "ACFT" shrinks, it's a localized change in gain that happened AFTER the actual recording. So basically, in the camera of the person recording it off the screen. For unknown reasons, but maybe from recording off a CRT...

Both boxes are essentially the same size, in that they describe 5m horizontally on the ground. At ULTN (Ultra narrow, the maximum optical zoom), we see a smaller object relative to the box. If we take the 4x version and shrink it down 4x, we...

Another key point is that what we see seems to be a kind of glare. Kind of unusual from a cold object, but did the object really change size? Both boxes are 5m wide.

I think it really can just be boiled down to the fact that the "fly-off", which looks like a camera motion, coincides exactly with a change in camera modes. This is unlikely to be a coincidence, given the alternative is breaking the laws of...

Is the transition from "RPOINT" to "RATE G" called by the operator, or an automatic switch after loss of lock? Because the 1st time it happens (0'27), I count 111 frames between the frame when the brackets disappear, to when "RPOINT" switches to...

Or essentially infinite acceleration. Which would certainly break the laws of physics, as we know them. Of course, what they really mean is a very rapid acceleration, something that reaches significantly velocity in a fraction of a second, less...

I now use a 3D illuminated model of the Moon to accurately display the phase. I also added a "Celestial Lock" to the Camera -> Camera Heading, to let you lock the camera to point at a particular celestial body.

Here I've added two straight line, constant speed traversals https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Syria Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y91EufUNTc The Magenta one is descending, the cyan...