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FS2004 Distance from datum before whole object disappears

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I'm building a Handley Page Victor as an AI aircraft. It has a braking parachute that is animated to move around in the airflow and appears only on touchdown with a piece of xml code. The problem I have is this:

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The chute ideally needs to be about 12ft further back than it is in the Gmax screen shot. However if I do that the whole aeroplane fails to appear in FS9. The red arrow is the limit I can reach going aft before that happens. Strangely, if I view the aircraft as a user-flyable aircraft I can push the chute further back to where it should be without losing the whole thing.

I don't know if it has a bearing on the problem, but the aft limit seems to be about the same as the nose is on the other side of the datum. With that in mind I tried moving the datum further to the right, but that didn't help. I have also tried increasing the aircraft length in the aircraft.cfg file but that didn't work either.

I can solve the problem by leaving the canopy where it is and moving the pivot point to the tail cone, but the canopy itself really needs to go back further.

Any thoughts please?

John
 
Leave everything as is.
You need the complete aircraft in Gmax move forward.
After the keyframe animation is no longer correct. It must all be made new coordinates.

And in a flight simulator, the aircraft would be in the view from outside is no longer placed in the center.
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Thanks for that Flusirainer, but it was the first thing I tried in order to solve the problem. I tried it again a few minutes ago and the aircraft does not appear at all if I do that.

The keyframe animation won't change as you suggest, but the latitude positions of the contact points, lights etc obviously will.

John
 
Hi,

Create a transparent box that extends back behind the plane, as far as the parachute will be. That might fix it?
 
I thought we were able to change the view distance on models in FS2004.

I have already forgotten some of the early steps (before modification tools) on doing unlimited exports in FS2004 models. It seems to me that we could set the distance for the exterior model in meters in the ASM file and then finish the export via BGLC-9.

Vdistance = view distance.

Does that sound familiar?
 
Problem solved. Thank you all for your sggestions.

It didn't occur to me that the parking spot radius needed to cater for the deployed parachute although it is never drawn with the aircraft parked. Having doubled the size of the spot as a test , I was able to move the parachute back 12 feet and everything looked and worked fine.

John
 
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