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FSXA Moving Parts After Compiling

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Bushpounder

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Hi, all! I am trying my hand at another plane. I have everything set up per the Abacus Aircraft Design books for FSDS3.5. I built the plane and got to the point of compiling the project. I did so and it compiled fine. However, when I went to FSX, some parts had moved - in this case, part of the landing gear. In the FSDS program, the parts are showing to be as they should be. I am confused. I am compling for FSX, and that is set properly. There are about 3 or 4 parts that are wandering, but not too far. One appears to flip or something. Again, very confused. Any ideas? Thanks for any help!! Also, I have not assigned any animation to any parts at this time. Thanks!!

Don
 
If these parts are animated, it could be that the pivot points for these could be set wrong.
 
Hello Bushpounder,
In the Max's I would suggest a ResetXform - but I don't think You can do that in FSDS - However You may want to cneck the pivot points af the offending parts - To make sure they are not off in BFE - Johnman
 
Sometimes you need to link that part to a stationary part - that often fixes it.

Hope this helps,
 
With FSX, you need to have materials on your parts or they can end up being mis-located, gathering in the center of your plane like a clump of metal captured by a singularity event.
 
Hi
Bills kinda right but pretty sure its textures(with fsds anyways) if you dont have a texture assigned to every animated part strange things happen :) (not sure if its an issue if your using fstweak before compiling)
The other thing is all animated parts must start with an axis of 0,0,0 or an offset will be applied, as said above this can be done by having a none animated parent part as a place holder
 
Does not matter if you have a texture assigned as long as you have not added a mapping yet. This is most likely not your issue...Oops this is for FSX, I have no idea in FSDS. But i think it would be the same rule.

Re scaling would not fix the issue since it seems to me the pivot point of these non animated parts are not centered and way far away from the original location. Try centering pivot to each part that is moved...
 
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Thanks again, all, for the input. I did fix it. The fix was to join the gear pieces together. This is all pre-animation, so nothing has been tagged at this point. I appreciate the help and I am sure I will be back with more questions! LOL! I'll post a picture shortly of the progress. Thanks again!!

Don BP;)
 
Joining the parts is a good thing and would use the original pivot position of the part you used to attach others..
 
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