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question about CAT

dianna78sg

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I'm just started to learn to use CAT today..really good tool but I just wonder if what I would like to do, could be done using it..

I would like to make a staircar on my airport scenery, move approaching an aircraft after the aircraft land and parked..it would be trigger by setting the nav 2..is it possible to do that using CAT ?
 
Hi,

Well you will have to make the animation of the staircar in Gmax. Then you can export the animation, with the Keep Files option and then modify the source files with CAT.

Thomas
 
thank you for the tip Thomas (apprecieate of you for helping me)...but do I have to animate the animation on single new file (I mean create a gmax new file of animated staircar ) or could I use animation that already animated in my airport scenery ?
 
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Hi,

I don't really understand what you mean here.

As Thomas already told the most work is to make the proper animation in GMax. You need to make sure that the height of the stair matches the aircraft (and the end of the animation should be close enough to the aircraft of course).

After that you just export and let CAT tweak the animation for you, to be able to trigger it. Then the only step is to place the object in the scenery, like you do with any object.
 
...actually what I mean is, the object that I animated (in my case the staircar)...do I have to make it a a new gmax file (that's contain only the animated staircar) compiled it and tweak it using CAT..or could I just use scenery file that I already made containing staircar that I've animated, compiled them and used the CAT..
 
Hi,

Ah, ok, now I get it.

In general it is easier to make object like this as a separate GMax file. Then you get a MDL object with only the stair. This makes it easier to place multiple copies of it later on for example.

But if you have already design the GMax file for a stair, you can add the animation to that of course.
 
thank you very much arno :)

ok this is what I've made, I skipped animation condition and animation second condition and I choose the animation triggered using nav 2 and the frequency I decided is 116.00 (that would be 1160h right ?)..and I skipped enable secondry condition also..and at the end, CAT created the xxx_cat.mdl along with xxx_cat.asm and xxx_cat_0.asm. so where do I go from there ? In the tutorial it's said to use bglc to compile them, but there's no xml file here, so how do I compile them ? (I've tried dragging the asm file but nothing happen)
 
Hi,

dianna78sg said:
that would be 1160h right ?
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No, 116.00 would be 1600h. You always need to drop the first 1.

dianna78sg said:
so where do I go from there ? In the tutorial it's said to use bglc to compile them, but there's no xml file here, so how do I compile them ?
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You don't need the ASM file anymore. CAT already compiled the new MDL file for you. Now you need to change the XML file you used to place your non-tweaked object and make sure it uses the new MDL file. After that you can compile the XML file like always.

If you had not placed the object before, just take the example XML file made by GMax and tweak it to use the new MDL file.
 
yes it works!!..thank you very much you guys!! . :D :D :D .now I just want to get rid this missing object when looking them moving approach the aircraft from certain angle..
 
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