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Pilot Animation

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I've created a pilot and skinned him using Max default bones, he shows up posed in FSX but does not animate. I made sure he has a skinned material on him.

Am I missing something really important?

Thanks,

Brian:o
 
Did you animate the pilot in MAx?

What animation tags did you assign?


Basically, your indicated steps are:

Created pilot

assigned bones

Exported to FS-X


I, for one, am going to read literally your steps, and not assumed that you animated and assigned animation tags in Max before exporting.
 
Steps

I did this:

- Created mesh for pilot in Max
- Texture-mapped pilot making sure to turn check [skinned material]
- Created skeleton for pilot with Max bones
- Used Physique to bind mesh to skeleton
- Posed pilot and set him in the airplane
- Attached [lever_stick_l_r] to neck bone so pilot would turn head with turns (0-100)

Pose comes over into FSX fine so I know that the skeleton is controling the mesh just fine but my animation isn't working.

:cool:
 
There is a checkbox in the export popup that also needs to be checked, it reads skinned mesh like in the material editor, also if the advanced animations box in FSX /display is unchecked your animations wont work.
 
Thanks!

Thanks Chuck, that was it. The advanced anmations checkbox.

It was working all the time but I just wasn't seing them because of that.

Brian
 
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