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Ive tried to look on here for an answer but no luck yet. Im modeling a helicopter (brantly b2b) for FSX in GMAX and the skids have built in shocks but I have no idea which animation tag to use. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Try this
supposing your landing gear is called l_gear and r_gear, your skids would be related to the gear and could be called l_gear_01 and r_gear_01 because Makemdl recognizes this as an animation tag according to the makemdl SDK. Your flex can be achieved by extending your animation timeline from 100 to 200 frames. At 100 the landing gear is fully extended. From 101 to 200, you animate your amount of flex or shock depression.

Milton Shupe has covered this in his C-162 tutorial. Find it here

http://www.flightsimonline.com/C162/anim/index.htm
 
Oh, since you're asking about FSX, the same advice holds except that you will apply the animations via the Animation Manager using the same names: l_gear, r_gear... ;)
 
Thx a mill guys I will let you know how it goes. Say N4GIX..you are Bill from PP3D right? I wanted to say that MilViz T-38A looks amazing. You sure know your stuff m8.
 
atorque said:
Thx a mill guys I will let you know how it goes. Say N4GIX..you are Bill from PP3D right? I wanted to say that MilViz T-38A looks amazing. You sure know your stuff m8.
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Yep! That's me alright. Thanks for the kind words.
 
Thx alot for the advice dudes...it worked perfectly. I need to refine it some more but atleast i got it working. What more can i say.
 
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