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FSX Animation

jpfil

jpfil

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Hi

I want to make an hoisting animation in my Halong Bay scenery.

I made one model with all objects (boat, helicopter, men) because I want to make it AI. In my chopper I have 2 animations : main and tail rotor (Ambient and Ambient2). I named the hoisted guy Ambient4. I dont animate Ambient4 and all display well as AI in FSX.
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But when I add animation (adding keyframes) to Ambient4 (go down then go up) it animates well but about 50 feet before the boat!

The axes orientation are good, no missing texture . What I have to check further?

Thanks.
 
Make sure to link your animated hoist part to an unanimated parent part? Some use a special tiny cube part located with its center at 0,0,0.
 
Thanks.
I have tried but with no satisfying result. Note that I never attach my animations and they always work well (except here...).
I replaced my guy by a simple cube and animate it : same wrong behevior... If the problem is not in my guy model, it is somewhere else in the MDL...
 
I tried a simple cube animation with the helicopter. I puted the cube just under the winch. In ModelConverter the cube is distant...
 
I may be wrong about this, but, I thought Ambient animations were for scenery models and are for rotations only. Sort of like the old "tick 18".

Best, Paul
 
Thanks.

That what I tough for a moment. But still there is a "Translate" option in FSDS...

I progressively shifted the animated guy behind the rope in FSDS to match them in ModelConverterX and FSX. That works for me. My partners are testing if it is the same in their FSX.

But it is a correction, not a solution...

I use "Tick" 18 only for conditionnal animations under FS9 SDK. I usually work with FSX SDK.
 
jpfil said:
Thanks.

That what I tough for a moment. But still there is a "Translate" option in FSDS...

I progressively shifted the animated guy behind the rope in FSDS to match them in ModelConverterX and FSX. That works for me. My partners are testing if it is the same in their FSX.

But it is a correction, not a solution...

I use "Tick" 18 only for conditionnal animations under FS9 SDK. I usually work with FSX SDK.
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You are correct; Ambient is the FSX version of the FS9 "Tick 18" so to speak. The translate idea is a neat trick; hope it works.

Best, Paul
 
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