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Haven't used CAT in a while- forgot a couple of steps.

This concerns the bounding box. I want my hangar doors to open when the aircraft is within ...say... 30 meters or so.

First screen in CAT Do I choose enable trigger or apply to animation, or skip the first screen?

Second screen - would i enter the following numbers starting from top let to top right box then bottom left and bottom right, etc? 30, 30; 30,30, 0, 30?

Third screen- (second condition) skip this.

next screen- ok Ready
Next compile.

compile ready!

I go to FSDS folder and choose temp.asm... no zeros, just temp.asm.

This is the file created when I last complied my hangar. This is what CAT uses.

Now- in the FSDS folder I choose _temp_cat (mdl file) and can rename my file, which was hangar2 to hangar2_cat and move this file to my folder whee ex scenery manager can see it in order to compile into a library of my choice.

Where have I gone wrong so far? My hangar doors won't open. Without CAT the doors, of course open continually, so I know my tick 18 is correct.

BTW- has anyone had this problem- try to open a program... say- ex scenery manager or the like and Windows installer tries to start. Hit cancel... it wants to start again... hit cancel and finally the program starts and runs just fine? Bob
 

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Hi,

You can skip the first animation condition screen if you just want to trigger your doors with the bounding box.

I think you problem is that you enter 30 for both the minimum and maximum for some axes. That means you don't really have a box in which you can be. I guess you mean between -30 and 30 or so.
 
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Arno- Thank you. e-mail notify doesn't seem to work. Maybe I need to fiddle with my account options or whatever it's called. Any ideas about that pesky windows installer? Bob
 

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Not really, which program is it?
 
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Both programs affected are ez scenery manager and CAT, I've seen this happen with other programs I have. It seems that windows installer is picking on these right now. Both mgr and CAT run just fine however.
 
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I need help.

After using the CAT simply the FS9 hangs with the use of bgl created from the use of mdl created by the cat.
In the example to create animation for the gate, it is not mentioned the first screen of CAT, this screen should be ignored?
They could help me please.

Obs. Without the use of CAT the animation is normal
sorry my english...
 
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