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MCX animation exporting error

Dutcheeseblend

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Hi,

I'm preparing some Blender to FS descriptions, with animations. It works quite nice, but when I am exporting the model from MCX to FSX, I get the following with the rudder animation:

Full extent to the right works fine, rudder goes smoothly all the way to the right and stays there (I'm using keyboard now).

Full extent to the left works erroneous, initially the rudder deflects fine and smoothly, but right at the last key tap, the rudder automatically jumps into neutral position. Deflecting back, it jumps from center to left, then smoothly to the center.

What could this be? The same encountered with ailerons, but I'm testing only with the rudder now.

If needed, I can provide the files!

Thanks in advance!
 
Hi,

How many frames did you use for the animation? I believe that is kind of fixed for those animations.

But I'll see if I can reproduce things.
 
I used an animation of 0-100 keyframes. Though, I tested it with several numbers of keyframes, and at all the same occured.

The strange thing is, that when I import the .mdl back to MCX, the animation works fine. But not in FS.

So the question arose if it could be a problem of my own pc/FS. But when loading the default Cub, all worked fine.

So. I don't know. If you need the files, let me know, I can send them this afternoon!

Regards!
 
Hi,

It might be that the animation is not exported correctly. If you would have a file to test that might indeed help.

Since I am not an aircraft designer myself, I don't know all the specifics about aircraft animations yet.
 
Right, here's the file!

Thanks in advance! It's still a bit pioneering in the usage of Blender, but it works quite fine anyway.
 

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Hi,

Sorry for the delay, are you still dealing with this issue?

I just had a look at your file. The animation definitions seems OK, the only difference with some default aircraft I can see is that they use 3 keyframes (0, 50 and 100), while in your file there is a keyframe at each frame. Maybe that explains the different behaviour?
 
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