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FSXA skinned mesh animations

Vitus

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I am experimenting with skinned-mesh-animations it it doesn't work - no movement at all.

I assigned a new material with the "skinned mesh" option in the material properties editor checked. I added some bones to the scene and animated them. Then I added a "skinned mesh" modifier to the part I want to animate and added the bones to it.
after a little bit of tweaking it looks quite nice in gmax so I added an animation tag and exported the aircraft.
nooooooooothing. :(

What did I miss? Is there a tutorial somewhere that describes the process?

Regards
Vitus
 
I assume this is for FSX?

What objects did you assign the animation tags to? In the DC-3 example provided in the SDK, they have 'l_wing_flex' anim tags assigned to all the left wing flex bones and 'r_wing_flex' assigned to all the right wing flex bones. Open up the DC-3 and take a look around, there are a lot of examples there using the animation system.

Also, not sure if this is important but notice the naming convention for the bones.

bone_left_inner
bone_left_middle_1
bone_left_middle_2
bone_left_outer

And same for right side.
 
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During the export process did you check the box for skinned animations ("Export Skin")?
 
Hi guys,

thanks for your attention! I am not animating flexible wings, as the structure of the Electra was quite rigid. But I need this kind of animation for the Bowden cables of the surface controls. And I am indeed developing for FSX only and I ticked the "skinned animation" checkbox when exporting the model.

I just came across a tutorial about "skinned mesh animations" in the FSDS forum. Jonbouy explains the whole process quite clearly hope that will also help my understanding :rolleyes:

I noticed that the bones need to be hierarchically independent from the the rst of the model and the weight for each vertex/bone combination defined as 0 or 1 - nothing in between! I'll keep you informed!

All the best!
Vitus
 
Clarification - it's not the "FSDS" forum (FSDS is a modelling program), but the "FFDS" (for FreeFlight Design Shop") forum.

(and yes, even I get tongue-twisted on that..)

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Vitus said:
Hi guys,

I just came across a tutorial about "skinned mesh animations" in the FSDS forum.
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Sry. 'bout that Felix! I hate akron. and abrev. - that is why I can't remember cryptic names.

b.w.
Vitus :D
 
FYI - it works now. I don't know why, or what I change, but it works. :D

Cheers,
Vitus


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Gosh! As I think about it... It took almost four months until it magically decided to move. Maybe the solution for all our issues is just that - to wait for it to be solved.
 
One thing to note...for the skinned animation(s) to work you must have FSX set to "display advanced animations"
 
Yep. But that was checked at all times on my system. It must be magic! :D
 
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