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Rotating Wheels with FSX

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I've run into a roadblock concerning rotating wheels and steerable nosewheel with FSX. I have scoured the major forums and the SDK and have found little of any use to me. The SDK includes a "wheel tool", but it is not compatible with Gmax.

Would someone point me in the right direction, please.

Don
 
You make three copies of each of the wheels, each one is key frame animated to do the 360-degree rotation.

Each tire/wheel part has to be associated with the corresponding animation tag, using the Animation Tool.

Presuming you're animating the nose/tail wheel:
For the wheel that you see when the aircraft is stopped, or moving slowly, associate the part with "c_tire_still"

For the wheel that you see when the aircraft is moving a little faster, associate the part with "c_tire_slow"

For the wheel that you see when the aircraft is rolling faster, associate the part with "c_tire_blurred" (Note that at this point, you can even texture the tire with a blurred version of the texture)

The part(s) themselves do NOT have to be specifically tagged with the same names (You can easily name them "rotating_round_thing_up_front_01" etc. as long as they are correctly associated with the corresponding animation.
 
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