• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSXA Custom Animations not working

Flying Officer Jevans

Flying Officer Jevans

Messages
319
Country
unitedkingdom
I've programmed a custom animation for the VC, and the code is listed below. The mouse rect works fine, but the animation doesn't function in FSX. It's all keyframed and tagged in Max, but it doesn't move the switch in the game. Could it be that I've put the <Animation> entry with the <PartInfo> at the bottom of my modeldef.xml file? Do they have to be separated as they are with all the default animations?

<Animation name="AP_Star_LightsMaster" guid="22D4F56D-A4B7-44b8-B754-89380BF2530A" type="Sim" typeparam="" length="50"/>
<PartInfo>
<Name>AP_Star_LightsMaster</Name>
<AnimLength>50</AnimLength>
<Animation>
<Parameter>
<Code>
(L:Lights Master, bool) 50 *
</Code>
<Lag>400</Lag>
</Parameter>
</Animation>
<MouseRect>
<Cursor>Hand</Cursor>
<CallbackCode>(L:Lights Master, bool) ! (&gt;L:Lights Master, bool)</CallbackCode>
</MouseRect>
</PartInfo>
 
Nope. The problem is that you misnamed "typeparam2" and didn't repeat the name= entry. It is required... :D

Code: 
<Animation name="AP_Star_LightsMaster" guid="22D4F56D-A4B7-44b8-B754-89380BF2530A" type="Sim" typeparam2="AP_Star_LightsMaster" length="50"/>


<PartInfo>
  <Name>AP_Star_LightsMaster</Name>
  <AnimLength>50</AnimLength>
  <Animation>
    <Parameter>
      <Code>
        (L:Lights Master, bool) 50 *
      </Code>
      <Lag>400</Lag>
    </Parameter>
  </Animation>
  <MouseRect>
    <Cursor>Hand</Cursor>
    <CallbackCode>(L:Lights Master, bool) ! (&gt;L:Lights Master, bool)</CallbackCode>
  </MouseRect>
</PartInfo>
 
Hmmm.... It still didn't work, even after doing that, but I took a closer look at the defualt animations and it turns out I had to add

typeParam="AutoPlay"

as well to get it to work. Tested and that, one, at least, works in FS now!:)
 
Ah yes! Sorry I missed that myself when replying...

Although where you have that entry doesn't really matter (as you've found), I still tend to keep my "custom entries" organized by project name, and I even take the time to construct an <AnimationGroup> table, which allows me to quickly filter only those specific tags in the FSX Animation Tool's window:

Code: 
  <AnimationGroup name="C310 LLights" guid="0x6E72FD3B,0x9C9E3698,0x8E44F665,0xFFFF10D0">
    <AnimationRef guid="ecde0816-e025-4065-8709-f3b33818ab6f"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="78e65bb9-6426-4c85-ad32-7f6711041009"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="c7909187-b943-4647-b319-b3926d138289"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="737165b0-8a88-406d-9aa6-f77804286b35"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="5c5b306f-c797-43a2-ae6f-82572247e19c"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="a36b62a2-830c-476e-92c8-e38f13818f7a"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="d7320a03-9c95-4d3e-bafb-bd8750a86fce"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="59fc1c01-f7d6-4012-865b-49b6741808d0"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="d41a87b2-0caa-4b11-9812-8949a075a993"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="375d4237-9461-44b8-9734-f3a04c5cea38"/>
    <AnimationRef guid="da6adecc-9a9e-455f-aba7-dc1ad85516ea"/>
  </AnimationGroup>

The above for example is a list of all the GUIDs used by the "C310 LLights" scripts. When it comes time to add the animations, I simply select that Group by name when using the Animation Tool... ;)
 
I might do that - I've got about a hundred switches to program.. although I thankfully don't have to do the breakers, they're being carried over from the 2D panel.
 
Xpand said:
May I ask how do we obtain the custom Guids?
Click to expand...

Alternatively, you could simply have one of the many "on line generators" create a bunch of GUIDs for you, and paste 'em into a text file.

I work from the bottom up, and Ctrl-X 'em from the list so I don't accidentally reuse one I've already assigned!

I use this one, and can ask for up to 2000 at one time:

http://www.guidgenerator.com/
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top