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Hello all

Got a question to ask. I was looking through the forum and came across a post (http://www.scenerydesign.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1111&highlight=windsock) regarding animation of a windsock which was animated and also rotated to wind. I know that it has been a limitation of fs to create this but this post seems to show that it can be done and after reading it....im very interested to trying this for my windsock yet very confused also. If anyone has been able to do this and can explain how to it would be much appriciated.

If i remember correctly, it was Horst18519 that created the post so if you read this and can help...i would appriciate it

Thanks
Dave
 
ablitos-. I have not tried this yet, but in placing a windsock that acts like this so it reacts to the wind correctly has to do with proper placement.

It may be you've done everything right so far. Pacing a windsock or flag, there has to be two objects in the immediate scenery. So.... if there aren't two objects there that react to the wind then you must place two windsocks on top of each other at the location of your choice. Also- get the wind direction at the time of placement.

In slew mode I would hit the space bar to point myself to north, then I would place my windsock with a heading that matches the wind direction and place a second windsock right on top of the first one... unless you plan to place a flag somewhere in the same scenery as well.

I have done this and found my flags and windsocks conform to wind direction. The question is... will this work with a windsock that moves as well? Good question, worth a try. Then tell me how you made a windsock to move in the wind. :) Bob
 
Hi Dave,

You might want to check out this thread. In it I posted a fully animated windsock MDL that I worked on together with Jorg and Jon.

I used a bit of ASM code tweaking to get it responding correctly to the wind direction and wind speed. So to do that to your windsock as well, some tweaking is probably the fastest way.
 
ablitos said:
Hello all

Got a question to ask. I was looking through the forum and came across a post (http://www.scenerydesign.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1111&highlight=windsock) regarding animation of a windsock which was animated and also rotated to wind. I know that it has been a limitation of fs to create this but this post seems to show that it can be done and after reading it....im very interested to trying this for my windsock yet very confused also. If anyone has been able to do this and can explain how to it would be much appriciated.

If i remember correctly, it was Horst18519 that created the post so if you read this and can help...i would appriciate it

Thanks
Dave
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Hi Dave,

I also put the windsock in the download-section because it is not so easy to find in the long thread:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/local_links.php?catid=5

Hope that helps

Joerg
 
I have moderated the entry in the download section now, so it should appear correct now.
 
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