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P3D v4 Animating flexible pilot; questions

lionheart

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Hey all.

I am thinking of making my pilot flexible, which means the special skin mesh / material, and also bones.

But.... Can you have him move his feet for pedals, and his arms for two separate things, like yoke and throttle? Do they connect to parts? Or are they one animation only like normal parts?

Reason I ask, is I have heard of 'linking' and hoping our FSX /P3D SDK does this. If not no worries.

Nervous about doing the flexing human. Might chicken out. Not that chickens are easier to animate.. but quicker...
 
ronh

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You can always saw the pilot in half. Lower part linked to rudder and upper part to yoke. Would that work?
 
n4gix

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Bill, it can be done but does require bones, lots of bones... and understanding the I-K Solver (which I don't myself... :()... :rotfl:
 
Chrismot

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Hi Bill,

Yes, I confirm that it is perfectly feasible...!

On Blender, for example, 3 bones per limb are sufficient: 1 for the thigh or upper arm, 1 for the tibia or forearm, 1 for the foot or hand... Each bone is therefore assigned to a part of the arm or leg, and those assigned to the feet or hands function separately depending on the position of the aircraft's rudder, throttle or stick.
 
Christian Bahr

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Yes that's possible :)

You can connect individual bones in an IK link to any object. If the object moves, the linked bone also moves with it. In the example of the rudder pedals, one links the feet to the respective pedal, sets its "planted keys" and tags the animation with the corresponding function in the Animation Manager. I'm not sure if the ModelDef might need to be extended with its own animation event to tag the animation in the Animation Manager. Here we are still finding out. The only requirement for this method is a biped character.

I had done it that way with the Bicyle Avatar: The feet are linked to the pedals, then the "Planted Keys" are set and finally in the Animation Manager the Animation is tagged. In the example of the bicycle Avatar it was the definition "AvatarDefaultWalking":

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I do not know if this method works in blender.
 
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