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FSX Animation stops

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Hi everybody,
Since I "upgrated" to SP2 I discover a lot of strange things in my FSX... The last is that my animated whales stop to swim at a certain distance. I made a whale MDL and his animation simulate breathing. Then I made a AI object with it, It works fine under SP1 but not under SP2. I recompiled and the animation continues to stop at a distance.
Someone have an idea?
Thanks.
 
Hi,

You made it as a FSX MDL file?
 
Yes Arno, I use XToMDL.

I check an other animation (a radar on a AI ship) and it works far away. But my animated AI whale stops inside less then 1 mile. The same animated whale works fine at a distance when used like simple scenery object (not AI).

Strange but this appends after I made controlled animation with MakeMDL. I use distance trigger...
 
I'm not an expert in this thing, but if I can offer a makeshift solution...
In the program you're using to make your animation, in relation to the distance trigger, can you inverse it? because apparently, the distance trigger says "animation works when distance is x meters or greater". You can try inversing that so it says "animation works when distance is x meters or less."


If that isn't possible, decrease the distance trigger to almost zero. I believe that should work?
 
Strange but this appends after I made controlled animation with MakeMDL. I use distance trigger...
Click to expand...

I mean : in FSDS 3.5.1, I make controlled animation using MakeMDL. After I switch to XtoMDl to make my animated whales. I am just wondering if there can be interaction between MakeMDL and XtoMDL.
 
Some distance triggers don't work with FSX BGL files (for example, MDL Tweaker only works with FS9 BGL files).

Hope this helps,
 
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