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Animated landable surfaces
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Taken from microsofts website http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526973.aspx
'Platforms cannot have an animated part at any point in their parent hierarchy.'
So I guess no you can't
and, now I just found it in the SDK docs
'Platforms cannot have an animated part at any point in their parent hierarchy.'
So I guess no you can't
and, now I just found it in the SDK docs
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Just my 2 cents worth
Don't know that much about it but a friend of mine over at Hovercontrol did create an animated landable surfce for FSX. He use 3D Studio Max to do it. He built a simple barrel type raft with a flat plane on top. It rises, rock and rolls with the wave. Kinda fun to land on. Then jump into spot view and watch your helo ride the raft. I don't know what all he did to accomplish this, but it apparently can be done. He goes by the name ALFA at Hovercontrol.
Don't know that much about it but a friend of mine over at Hovercontrol did create an animated landable surfce for FSX. He use 3D Studio Max to do it. He built a simple barrel type raft with a flat plane on top. It rises, rock and rolls with the wave. Kinda fun to land on. Then jump into spot view and watch your helo ride the raft. I don't know what all he did to accomplish this, but it apparently can be done. He goes by the name ALFA at Hovercontrol.
You answered my immediate question.
THe "platform" is NOT animated and does not have any animated part on it. It is simply located on the water, so it moves according to the "motion" of the "waves".
I believe that the SDK say that the platform cannot have an animated part/animation as part of the the hierarchy. Say, you cannot have a "folding" platform .....
THe "platform" is NOT animated and does not have any animated part on it. It is simply located on the water, so it moves according to the "motion" of the "waves".
I believe that the SDK say that the platform cannot have an animated part/animation as part of the the hierarchy. Say, you cannot have a "folding" platform .....
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I don't think objects will move with waves, so it sounds like there must be some animation in there then. I guess simplest would be to just try if a simple translation animation works or not. The SDK can always have some minor bugs 
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Hi,
I made a platform and gave it a simple translation animation. That seems to work fine, although at the end when the animation jumps back to the start it looks a bit weird. But the aircraft was moving up with the platform in the animation. So it seems that kind is possible.
I made a platform and gave it a simple translation animation. That seems to work fine, although at the end when the animation jumps back to the start it looks a bit weird. But the aircraft was moving up with the platform in the animation. So it seems that kind is possible.