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My Sky Tower and questions

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Joe Bourgeois

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hey all

here is my pic of the sea world skytower in san diego. i have a couple of issues.

1) the texture i used for the windows doesnt look good. i have used fs default textures. i have put it in the front, back right, left, top, and bottom.

2) this same part doesnt animate (where have i heard this before).

i have uploaded my fsc file in the zip folder. can someone please dll it and see if i am doing something wrong with regards to the 2 isssues above????
PPAALLEEZZZ

hey warm - my first project in fsds.

joe
 

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Hi Joe, Looks good except for it not moving of course (LOL) but help is at hand. Attached is a pic of the KeyFrame Animation as taken from FSDS. The reason it didn't move is because YOU didn't rotate it at all! If you look at the co-ordinates you will see that they are all the same. I will amend it and then post another reply. The windows? well what can I say they will do for now but you have to go searching or make your own? Back soon, I hope!
 
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Here you are Joe all done. FSDS fsc file and mdl to place with ez-scenery or whatever you want. It works - put the plane at about 300ft and watch the animation!
 
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OMG...i figured it out.

yes i did, and no i didnt rotate it.
fsds is quite unforgiving!!
i did "rotate", or so i thought. when i went to the keyframes, i just hit "ok". even though i see it rotate in all 3 screens, it never really took the entries.

ya literally have to re-enter 90 and click entire part(even though it is already clicked) then hit OK.
my tower now rotates!!

as far as the windows, i found a different texture and it looks fine.
see the pic.

thanks warmingham

joe
 

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warmingham said:
Hi Joe, Does that mean that your Ferris Wheel is now rotating?
Click to expand...

nope, and the key list shows a little different as in the tutorial. the z-axis stays at 16.25 in mine, and i cant figure out why it doesnt change for me.
i rotated the z at 90 on each keyframe.
 

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Joe, unless I am looking over your shoulder whilst you are tinkering with the animation in FSDS I cannot see where I can help you. If you send me the fsc file I will look at it and either fix it or tell you how to fix it. Obviously it is better that you know how to fix it, but there must be something basically and probably very simply wrong in what you are doing or not doing. You must decide.
What if I send you some Screen Shots of the steps in the animation? Send me a PM and let me know - I can then give you my email address if you want to use it.:)
 
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