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FSX FS Studio Design animation problem to FSX

C

Craken

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Good morning all,

I am coming to you because I have a problem with the animation of the instrument.
I am making a device for FSX, I am at the stage where I try to create in the virtual cockpit, the animations of the instruments.
I wanted to start by doing some test, and until then it does not work. I use FS Design Studio 3.5.1, I created the anemometer and I animated the needle, named anemometer.
Until the FSDS, compile the model, without error but once the model in FSX nothing happens, no movement of the needle.
I also tested with the anmometer_spirit and anemometer_vickers animation.
I tried by modifying the modeldef file, adding the following lines to it but the result is there.

<Animation name="airspeed_needle" guid="b24c3586-f416-4e4b-b3e6-eb79b4fa499e" length="300" type="Sim" typeParam2="airspeed_needle" typeParam="AutoPlay" />

<AnimationGroup name="Jauge Animation" guid="0xB331C7EF,0xE2BA4276,0x84C433B2,0xBA9781B2">
<AnimationRef guid="b24c3586-f416-4e4b-b3e6-eb79b4fa499e"/>
</AnimationGroup>

<PartInfo>
<Name>airspeed_needle</Name>
<AnimLength>300</AnimLength>
<Animation>
<Parameter>
<Sim>
<Variable>AIRSPEED SELECT INDICATED OR TRUE</Variable>
<Units>knots</Units>
<Scale>1</Scale>
<MinValue>0</MinValue>
<MaxValue>300</MaxValue>
</Sim>
</Parameter>
</Animation>
</PartInfo>

I am not very experienced with XML but just reproduced what I followed in a tutorial, which shows how it is done under gmax, but the needle does not move in FSX.
I also put you the link of the video that I followed, but it is in French.
Video Link

No results, does anyone have a solution?

Thank you all for your responses.

I don't speak English very well, and if there are any mistakes please excuse me.

Vincent
 
At first glance I'd suggest that if you named the animated part in FSDS anemometer that the name of the animation in the modeldef should also be anemometer NOT airspeed needle. I would also suggest that you need a new GUID because the GUID b24c3586-f416-4e4b-b3e6-eb79b4fa499e already exists in the default modeldef.

Others may work differently, but I usually copy some working code in the model def, rename it in the <name> section, and add a new line at the top in the Animation group and add the new animation, and add a new GUID.
 
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