Animate - Have GUID but No Model?

[Odaat]

I've been using the sample vcc code in the FSX SDK to animate objects with success. I have placed animated giraffes walking a route in Alaska, which is cool, but not very realistic. There is a guid for a grizzly in the objects listing ANI_grizzly_walking_sm with a corrresponding guid. However, there is no corresponding folder in the simobjects/animals folder, so there is no sim.cfg or mdl file for the sim.cfg to call. Yet, I can use a static location xml file to display a fully-textured grizzly with a walking motion - he just won't go anywhere.

Is there a way for me to animate the grizzly without a mdl file using vcc code? How does MS call the grizzly using just the guid?

Hoping to hear some answers for this one :)

Paul

[lc0277]

Did you tried to extract the MDL file from its bgl libraries (bglxml does it, maybe bglAnalyzeX too) and create a simobject container with it ? Just copy sim.cfg and model.cfg from another animal (or groundvehicle) and change some fields.

[Odaat]

No. Can I have a little more information on how to find out which library the animated object might be in and where to find it in FSX?

Thanks

[lc0277]

Generic objects libraries are in FSX/Scenery/Global/Scenery.

In fact, you can even skip the extraction of the MDL file. Just create a new directory under SimObjects/Misc (or any simobject directory) and use this in the sim.cfg:

[fltsim.0]
title=Missile Test
model=""
texture=""
visual_model_guid= {55cf4b1a-ad23-4dd8-91ab-3853eebd2d68}

[General]
category=SimpleObject


Change the GUID to the model you want (there is a list in Terrain SDK/library objects.txt). No need to touch any other file.
Doesn't seem to work for all library objects. The above example crashed FSX :eek:
In FS9, aircraft and scenery MDLs were not compatible. I heard it changed in FSX, but don't know how much. Looks like you cannot really swap between scenery and aircraft models.

The visual_model_guid keyword is also undocumented in aircraft container SDK, that's probably a reason ...

[Odaat]

Thanks, I'll try that out.

Cheers,
Paul