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Formation Ailerons

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PLease someone tell me what on earth I have done wrong here?
Its been over a week trying to get it right.

The ailerons were working fine until I tried the texture tutorial.
Having said that, this is the second time I have got a model to this stage and fallen over because of this problem.

Additionally the front of the prop is yards ahead of the back of the prop.

This is all with FSDS3.5 imported into FSX on Windows7.

PLease help.
 

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Sorry, my English is very bad.(is Google translate)

Do you have the rudder only animated and then linked via a hierarchy with the wings?
If so, the other way around.
 
At first glance, it appears that you do not have a dummy part "anchoring" the animated part. This is especially important on an animated part that is slightly off axis.

IT is a quirk of FSDS for FSX that an animated part needs a pivot point of 0,0,0.

The way around this is to create a small dummy part (it can be tagged as a hierarchy part, so as to have it "there" but no actual geometry is made, or a very small part "inside" the actual part.

Since you already have the aileron built in FSDS, make a copy of the aileron, tag it with a prefix of it "ref_xxxx", REMOVE the animations from the REF_ part, remove the texture assignment (if any), for practial reasons, remove all but one polygon, and scale it down so that it is so small it won't be seen at any animation (or tag it hierarchy).

Now, make the "real" animated aileron a child of the REF_ part. Your animated part now has a pivot point of 0,0,0, and should display properly.




I think...
 
In FSX, untextured parts will also appear "scrambled and/or detached" from where they are supposed to be...

...just saying. ;)
 
Thanks for the replies.
Firstly it appears the same with textured parts.
Secondly I may have to have a look at the heirarchy business again.
Thanks for the advice.

David
 
Hi
Ill just add to Felix answer by saying, that if the parent axis (REF_ part) is not at the same location as the child parts axis, the child part will most times (not always) have an offset added to the animation = to that distance in fsx
Wozza
 
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