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3D needle animation (FSX SDK)

Xpand

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Hi!
So I'm almost done with my Su-26 and I added 3D gauges instead of 2D gauges (which I don't know how to make) and there's a problem because, for example: I add the l_asi_needle animation tag to the airspeed needle and animate it rotating 360 degrees in 70 frames, as it says on the animlenght sector, but the needle doesn't move in FSX!! :eek:
What seems to be the problem?
The only needle that moves is the RPM needle that the motion is almost unnoticeable...
 
You sure you're putting it through xtomdl with animations enabled, and that when you exported from gmax you checked the box to export animations?
 
If you meant the "needle_asi_l" tag, it won't work at all, since it depends on another gauge to generate the custom (L:needle_asi, number) variable's value!

Aside from which it is 360 keyframes (0 - 359)

I would recommend coding your own XML script for this, with the keyframes limited to the actual max value of your specific airspeed indicator. For example, the airspeed gauge of the C310R has a range of 0 to 260 knots, so I've set the limit in the script to 260:

Code: 
<Animation name="C310_needle_asi" guid="48b310a9-9adf-4499-95a0-7272f7def351" type="Sim" typeParam="AutoPlay" length="260" typeParam2="C310_needle_asi" />


  <PartInfo>
    <Name>C310_needle_asi</Name>
    <AnimLength>260</AnimLength>
    <Animation>
      <Parameter>
        <Sim>
          <Variable>AIRSPEED INDICATED</Variable>
          <Units>knots</Units>
        </Sim>
      </Parameter>
    </Animation>
    <MouseRect>
      <TooltipID>TOOLTIPTEXT_AIRSPEED_KNOTS</TooltipID>
    </MouseRect>
  </PartInfo>
 
Oh, ok, but it isn't only the ASI needle that's offline. All the other gauges don't work either...
 
Xpand said:
Oh, ok, but it isn't only the ASI needle that's offline. All the other gauges don't work either...
Click to expand...

It could well be the exact same problem in that the scripts you are tagging use custom (L:vars) instead of default (A:vars)!

You need to actually look at the scripts to see what you're tagging to... ;)

Nearly all of the scripts for the F18 and EH101 use custom (L:vars), so they aren't terribly useful except as examples that may be custom modified for our own use.
 
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