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Hi all!

I'm trying to animate this knob. I've animated it in Blender, I just don't know how to write the code for custom animation. I basically just want a dummy switch where I click left and right to switch between intervals. In this case, MIN, NORM, HIGH, MAX. I want to be able to do this for other knobs with more intervals, but I'm just not sure how to code the animation in the XML. Hopefully, that makes sense, any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
knob.png
 
This is the best template to use for the multi-stage switches. You just supply the name of the animation from Blender and what code to execute for each position. The state is held internally in the component.

XML: 
<UseTemplate Name = "ASOBO_GT_Switch_XStates">
    <ANIM_NAME>MySwitchAnimation</ANIM_NAME>
    <NUM_STATES>4</NUM_STATES>
    <CODE_POS_0></CODE_POS_0>
    <CODE_POS_1></CODE_POS_1>
    <CODE_POS_2></CODE_POS_2>
    <CODE_POS_3></CODE_POS_3>   
</UseTemplate>
 
sal1800 can you provide more details for that fairly useful-looking template? E.g.

* do the code sections provide the frame number for the animation?

* does the template provide all the default UI behaviour, i.e. the mouse scroll wheel will change the switch state, and maybe a mouse click does something?

So the general idea would be to put your intended program XML, such triggering a K: event or setting an L: var, in the CODE_POS section, followed by a frame number ?

I'm not sure what other basic properties you'd want - I guess the tooltip, whether you want 3 to scroll to 0, and what sound the switch should make.
 
It's quite an advanced template. It manages the animation automatically, I guess by just dividing up the keyframes for each position. You don't supply any keyframe numbers in the code params. I can see an optional param for <OVERRIDE_ANIM_CODE> if you needed it to animate based on some other simvar. It handles the scroll wheel and all of that.

I think you can use the <ANIMTIP_0_ON_PERCENT>, <ANIMTIP_1_ON_PERCENT>, etc. for the tooltips. You can try more of the animation standard parameters, like lag, bias and so on, as I think they will be used also.
All of these templates are in the official packages, fs-base-aircraft-common/ModelBehaviorDefs with basic interaction templates in /Generic/Complex.
 
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