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I've been using Open Rocket, but am wondering what benefits I would get from having Rocksim.
It does? I need to look into thatOpenRock has staging as well
Yes and no. OpenRocket does not have manual CD override by default, however with OpenRocket being free and open source, someone did make a plugin for OpenRocket to manually change the CD.
Post #18 is the plugin
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/changing-cd-in-openrocket.139708/
OR is by no means dead in the water, although I can understand why you would think that. Unfortunately it really needs more developers. Recently one of the primary developers needed to withdraw due to work commitments.Whatever plugins exist are not widely known nor easily found. They are not easily coded either, even for computer scientists. Despite the utopia of free and Open Source, OpenRocket still lacks the extra features of Rocksim that most people like.
I pay attention to the atmospheric models. OR has something messed up with the launch site elevation, temperature, and pressure. Oddly, it won't plot air density in the simulation. RS is spot on for atmospheric data.
Frankly, both products are dead in the water. The Rocksim developer isn't doing anything and won't relinquish the source code. The Open Rocket community hasn't release a new version in 4.5 years. I am kinda waiting for the next big thing in simulation.
"Gets updated more often". I have been using RS since 2013 and I can't recall the last time RS was updated, I think once. I have been using OR since about 2014 and it's been updated 6 times since then.RS has tube fins and ring fins. And gets updated more often.
OR 15.03 has been out for almost 4.5 years. In that same time period, RS has released 9.3, 9.4 and 9.5."Gets updated more often". I have been using RS since 2013 and I can't recall the last time RS was updated, I think once. I have been using OR since about 2014 and it's been updated 6 times since then.
Check OR's Wiki release notes. As a compassion try to even find the version history published online for RS.
No ... really?Lack of tail ring support is frustrating especially for me.
I've been using Open Rocket, but am wondering what benefits I would get from having Rocksim.
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