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Problem with the CAT Tool

No, cat is not a tool to animate an object but to assign conditions when the animation should show and when not - that's an important difference.

You should have made an animation in GMax that is looped. When you export it and place it in your scenery it plays endlessly as a loop. This isn't intended, of course, but it shows that the animation is OK.

Now you run cat and tell the animation that it should only play when NAV1 is set to 112.00. When the frequency is set back to another freq the reverse animation is played.
That's "all" cat does. ;)
 
Hi

If you have used the tick18_ name on your animated parts, you can export it from Gmax and compile without using CAT, this way you will see if the animation works, you wont be able to control it, FS will loop the animation over and over, but at least you will know if the animation is ok.

Stevo :)
 
Ah, now I see the difference.

Hm, there is only my static object, no animation which I have made in Gmax.

Here are two messages, which comes while exporting from Gmax, I thought that there is a problem with the names of the objects, but perhaps there is another bigger mistake:

BGL14.jpg


BGL15.jpg
 
:D

There are some errors in your GMax-file. First use the tick18_* names. Then reset the scale of the animated parts - you can do this in the "hierarchy"-tab.
 
Hi

The first error is harmless, its telling you a part starts with a number and needs to start with a letter, this happens to me lots of times.

The second Scale error may need to be fixed,

1. Select your part in Gmax, in this case 'tick18_staiirs_3'

2. Click the 'Hierarchy tab'

3. Click the Scale button in the reset section

this should remove the scale error

In my experiance this sometimes doesnt work, if this is the case

Click 'Affect Pivot Only' button before using the reset Scale button

Hope that makes sence!! :confused:

I dont know if that will fix your problem with cat though.

Stevo
 
Hi!

After cancelling all messages, it makes sense :) .

It works fine! I see the animation loop in the FS! Great!
Now I will try to use CAT and the frequencies.

Thanks for the nice help on this sunday :)
 
Now I have also tried it with CAT, and all works fine now.

Only one thing was freaky, when I am in the 2s panel, ther is all fine:

- set NAV2 to 112.00 -> animation starts
- set another freq to active -> animation reverse

But after the scenery starts, and the object is at the final position, when I go to the spot view, the animation starts again to the position. then I go to the 2d, then its on final pos. When I go again to the spot view, the animation starts again.

But first of all thank you for your help on this day!
 
But after the scenery starts, and the object is at the final position, when I go to the spot view, the animation starts again to the position. then I go to the 2d, then its on final pos. When I go again to the spot view, the animation starts again.
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Hi

Have you used the dist to refpoint, I believe this is a known problem, the dist to ref point is different if you are in spot view than if you are in Cockpit view, if you remove the Dist to ref and only use the frequency, the problem will go away. or it should!!!

Stevo
 
Hi,

Good to see the other forum users could solve your CAT problem :).

When you go to spot plane view the distance probably becomes bigger than the 500 meters you entered. In that case the animation is no longer valid and it will return to the initial position again. So that all makes sense. You can better use the bounding box to check your position.
 
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