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Animation Multiple Jetway

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My question is how can I make a jetway animated to different heights ..... The height of a B747 with Nav2 112.00 and a lowest Md80 with Nav2 113.00? The animation is done separately in the gmax? And as this is done in multiple cat?

Thanks
 
Hi,

For each height you would have to make a separate animation in GMax. Then you can use them as secondary conditions in CAT with the variable that you want.

Be careful, all these animations need the same amount of keyframes.
 
I am confused where it is not (keyframes) you could explain a little more detail, the error that gives me is that which you mean ....

Thanks Arno
 
You also confuse me a little bit :). You are talking about an error now, do you have some error message?

When you make the animations for the different heights, you need to make sure that they all have the same length (in keyframes) and for best results also have their keys defined at the same frame.
 
I really the following error ... Please see the photo

Thanks

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So, did you check the tooltips are suggested in the error message? Then you will see how many keyframes each of the animations you selected has. You should then see which one is wrong, as they all need to have the same length.
 
Basically is 2, but you need to make sure that if you have 99 frames for all of them for example, that there is also a key at the last frame.
 
On a sidenote...

This is possible in FSX using a new method... I spoke to Adrian in ACES recently about getting the videos off him so I can edit them down for a tutorial.

More soon!
 
Hi Jaime!

What I do and really works...is that once you have finished your first animation (for small aircraft for example), then save and rename that animation -gmax file-, and move the slider full to the right so you are on the last frame, then, you can activate the animate button, and move your jetway parts to fit to the needed height.

Be sure that you don´t add new keyframes, so there is where the error shows!

I can see and manage with frequencies my jetways, but I've got a new problem: When I want to add more jetways, and rename the XML file and put new coordinates, I can see the new jetways but now I have no animation in any of them. :confused:

Any Ideas? :)
 
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