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Blender Animation not playing

wideloadwhitford

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Hello, I've got a good head scratcher for you all. Here is the blender + XML files for a beacon I made with a simple 360 degree rotation. No matter what I do this will not spin in the sim. Can someone take a look and tell me what I have done wrong?
 

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Should have given the entire project, but figured it out anyways.
Changed the blend file - blender does not do well with only two KF 0 and 130 I added a couple more.
Next the export had the "Limit Playback range" checked. You have the playback range set 1 to 130 but your first KF is ZERO. I had to change the frame start to zero.
I also checked Sample Animations so it creates 0-130 KFs

I added length="130" to xml - not sure if that was an issue or not.

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Thank you so much for your help. I will tinker with this when I get home tonight.

Moving forward, you want me to start the keyframe at 1 instead of 0? Second question would be how did you add those extra keyframes in the nonlinear animation tab?
 
wideloadwhitford said:
Thank you so much for your help. I will tinker with this when I get home tonight.

Moving forward, you want me to start the keyframe at 1 instead of 0? Second question would be how did you add those extra keyframes in the nonlinear animation tab?
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you can leave at zero - just adjust the frame start panel - see my pic above.

also you can edit NLA using the tab key then just position the frame and hit i to insert - (in your case as the beacon rotated) Otherwise you would have to move the mesh yourelf fisrt before inserting a KF.
 
ronh said:
you can leave at zero - just adjust the frame start panel - see my pic above.

also you can edit NLA using the tab key then just position the frame and hit i to insert - (in your case as the beacon rotated) Otherwise you would have to move the mesh yourelf fisrt before inserting a KF.
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Thank you sir, I remade the model and animation, it's working like a charm. If ever fly through FLL I owe you a coffee.
 
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