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Clock creating within Blender

Pyscen

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Hello,...

I need some assistance..

I first want to say I do understand that I need to have a unique ID for both the "hour hand" and "minute hand" as well as a "friendly name" for each as well,... BUT are the unique id and friendly name done within Blender? or within a editor of some type,... or is it done during animation tagging etc?

I'm guessing yes,... but I'm having a little trouble wrapping my head around it,... so if someone could tutorialize it for me. or at least send me in the right direction I would be very grateful!

I have look at other examples,.... but, its done within an editor of some kind and is this the only way to do it after animation items have been tagged?

Thanks
 
Pyscen said:
Hello,...

I need some assistance..

I first want to say I do understand that I need to have a unique ID for both the "hour hand" and "minute hand" as well as a "friendly name" for each as well,... BUT are the unique id and friendly name done within Blender? or within a editor of some type,... or is it done during animation tagging etc?

I'm guessing yes,... but I'm having a little trouble wrapping my head around it,... so if someone could tutorialize it for me. or at least send me in the right direction I would be very grateful!

I have look at other examples,.... but, its done within an editor of some kind and is this the only way to do it after animation items have been tagged?

Thanks
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Hi Pyscen!

I would take it that you are trying to model a clock for FSX? If so you do not need an unique ID for the hour hand and minute hand. You just need a friendly name and a Guide number for the project.

See examples below:

Tag the hour hand with needle_clock_hours.
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Tag the minute hand with needle_clock_minutes
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I hope this helps. If you need more help let me know.

Kris :-)
 
Hello krispy...

So you are saying that all that needs to be done... To tag the hour hand and the minute hand and it should function within FSX? Or will I still need to edit the x file accordingly?
 
Pyscen said:
Hello krispy...

So you are saying that all that needs to be done... To tag the hour hand and the minute hand and it should function within FSX? Or will I still need to edit the x file accordingly?
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Sorry Pyscen That I did not see your question sooner!

Yes, that is correct. All you need is to use those tags that I mentioned above. They are already in the modelDef file. Just export your .mdl file and it should work in FSX.

Thanks, Kris
 
You also need to animate the needles in Blender. Looking at the modeldef.xml file you will see the second and minutes hands need to rotate 360' over 60 key frames and the second hand over 12 key frames.
 
Hello,...

What your saying is that all parts have to be assigned (hours, minutes and second hands) and that's what was said previously,... but all hands (correct, if wrong), do not,.. only the parts which are to be visible within the model. What I mean,... if the model only has a hour and minutes hands,.. that's all that needs to be tagged. When a Blender file is initialized properly go through the modeldef.xml when compiling. Would you explain further please,...
 
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Pyscen said:
Hello,...

What your saying is that all parts have to be assigned (hours, minutes and second hands) and that's what was said previously,... but all hands (correct, if wrong), do not,.. only the parts which are to be visible within the model. What I mean,... if the model only has a hour and minutes hands,.. that's all that needs to be tagged. When a Blender file is initialized properly go through the modeldef.xml when compiling. Would you explain further please,...
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Hi Pyscen!

Yes, you are correct. You only add an animation tag to the objects that you are animating. So an example would be: In Blender you animate the hour hand using the number of frames as per the modeldef file. You then attach the FSX animation tag needle_clock_hours to the hour hand object. You would do the very same process to the minute hand.

I hope this better describes what you need to do for an animated clock.

Thanks, Kris :-)
 
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