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Landing gear issues

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rarewings

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Hey everyone.
Working on the landing gear inside of Blender for MSFS2020.

The l_gear and r_gear are keyframed and working great. They are retracting and lowering, with compression.
Keyframe up at 0, lowered at 100 and full compression at 200.

I have done the same with the c_gear but it doesn't do anything.

All the xml is the same just can't figure this out
 
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Anthony31

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This is the point where you do some basic debugging to determine what the problem is.

First step, use SimvarWatcher to check the values of the A: vars for the landing gear are actually changing.

Check the the animation name of the Blender NLA track exactly matches the name of your animation.

Swap the names of the animations in Blender with the l_gear. If the front gear works with the l_gear name and the left gear stops working with the c_gear name then you know your Blender animations are fine, but your XML is wrong.

Are you using old style animation code? One with GUID numbers? Change the GUID number. Double check your syntax. Or completely overwrite your c_gear code with l_gear code and make the necessary changes.
 
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rarewings

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I tried swapping the names in Blender and all the gear worked.

I couldn't see any errors in the XML but I re-wrote the XML and that got it working.

Thanks for the help.
 
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rarewings

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well it is still having problems.
all the other anim work.
Just anything with the C-gear or c_tire_anim dont.

it is keyframed correctly as I can change it to L_gear or r_gear and the gear works.

here is my xml for the gear

<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Center_Template">
<ANIM_NAME>c_gear</ANIM_NAME>
</UseTemplate>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Center_Tire_Template"> <ANIM_NAME>c_tire_anim</ANIM_NAME> <NODE_ID_STILL>WHEEL_STILL_center</NODE_ID_STILL>
<NODE_ID_BLURRED>WHEEL_BLURRED_center</NODE_ID_BLURRED>
</UseTemplate>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Left_Template">
<ANIM_NAME>l_gear</ANIM_NAME>
</UseTemplate>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Right_Template">
<ANIM_NAME>r_gear</ANIM_NAME>
</UseTemplate>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Left_Tire_Template">
<ANIM_NAME>l_tire_anim</ANIM_NAME>
<NODE_ID_STILL>WHEEL_STILL_left</NODE_ID_STILL>
<NODE_ID_BLURRED>WHEEL_BLURRED_Left</NODE_ID_BLURRED>
</UseTemplate>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Right_Tire_Template">
<ANIM_NAME>r_tire_anim</ANIM_NAME>
<NODE_ID_STILL>WHEEL_STILL_right</NODE_ID_STILL>
<NODE_ID_BLURRED>WHEEL_BLURRED_right</NODE_ID_BLURRED>
</UseTemplate>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GEAR_Steering_Template">
<ANIM_NAME>c_wheel</ANIM_NAME>
</UseTemplate>
</Component>


I have copied and changed this a million times and can't get the c_gear to work

all other planes that are in the game are not having problems


any ideas?
 
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