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Animation - how to block child's rotation

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Stanislaw

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Hello guys.
Actually I have one problem that I can't solve easly and another one that is probably more known.

I am animating an observation wheel and obviously there are some cars on the wheel. The wheel construction is a parent and it rotates the cars. Cars are fixed in a wright position (top of each). My goal is to block the cars' rotation while animating the parent - wheel main construction. Wheel is rotating but cars should just change their position without a rotation. What is the way to do that?
And just one more question (would appreciate a link): how to program properly a 360 degree tick18_ animation? The problem is it doesn't want to be 360 - it changes back to 0 or if animation is f/e 359 it prefers -1. I can do that by applying more frames but I am sure there is better way.
Thanks a lot. I appreciate your help.

Stanislaw
 
Nick - If you recall, one of the Commandments of the Laws of Flightsim Design Forums is that:

A Fix To A Problem Shall Not Be Kept Secret.
 
Ok, sorry. A link to a Polish board will not satisfy you :)

In the beginning I was trying to make the first and final positions of the wheel and then the frames between. That was wrong. It was enough to make just 5 frames (every 90 degr) to make it move properly.

If talking about children and parents - the is a Link Info button (next to Pivot and IK) and you can mark what movement you would like to get from a parent (inherits). Anyway, I finished my scenery for fs9 and the animation works fine now.

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Thanks, best regards
Stanislaw
 
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