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linked animations

Woutboeing

Woutboeing

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hello,

i'm having a problem animating something that has been linked in a tree in 3ds max 2008:

when i rotate the part, it scales out, and totally deforms.

if requested i can make images of it.

my question is, how do i add a rotation animation to a linked object without that it scales?

thanks in advance,

wout
 
For starters - on all the parts involved, reset the scale and transformstions (*should be under the hierarchy tab*) before redoing the aniumations and linking.
 
What's needed is a pivot point realignment, or attaching intermediary nodes so the linked parts have the pivot points aligned with the axis of rotation, the farther the childs pivot is from the animated parent the more there is deformation and warping.
As Felix mentioned scale is important , now more than ever its critical that parts carry a clean bill of health , scale problems do cause some peculiar effects in FSX, there is a sure cure , after the mesh is formed and sized reset its transform , or create the standard primative by the keyboard entry method , preferably both .
Testing parts for scale is easy using track view selected and looking at the scale entry where 100.100.100 is what it should read for the XYZ , if there is any other figure you should have a good reason because FSX uses this scale to determine the size of the bounding box and not that of the geometry onscreen in Max/Gmax.
 
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