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animating failure

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can someone help me out i just cant figure out why i cannot get any basic animation to work in fsx. im using max2009 and following the animation manager method from the sdk as follows

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Open the FSX Animation Tool: FS Tools>AnimationManager.
Set the Start frame as 0 and the End frame as 100 (just below the Create and Delete buttons).
Under Animation List scroll down and find rudder_percent_key and select it.
Click on Create to associate the rudder_percent_key animation tag to the rudder mesh. Rudder_percent_key will show up in the Object Anims window and the Create button will get grayed out.
In the image below, the part name is listed in the top right corner and the animation tag rudder_percent_key has been associated to the part and the animation has a range of 0 – 100.
Look at the dope sheet to verify the animation tag has been associated to the rudder:


i canfirm in the dope sheet





i then save the model and export via the aces export lod tool


my model is animated perferctly in 3dsmax yet when i export it i get no movement at all in fsx.

any help appreciated




SOLVED VIA ANOTHER THREAD
 
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Try this.

Make a box and animate it with 2 frames 0 to 100. Open animation manager.
Put 0 to 100 then click update sel for this new box.
Next click l_flaps_key from list.
Then click create. Then if you want you can click summary.
It will show frame 0 to 100 and the name associated with that part.

try this and see if it works. Simple test!

DG:eek:
 
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yes thanks it was a problem caused by using the export module rather than using file export
 
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