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MSFS20 Triggering Hangar door animation in SimObject by distance?

danielsjam said:
Source files sent in a reply to rumbaflappy
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I took a look at the source material you uploaded. Your initial post mentioned that the doors do not stay open for more than a second. I suspect that the issue is that you have animated the doors but not got a control mechanism coded. That means that the door animation just cycles repeatedly, hence the doors not remaining open.

Firstly, it looks as if the door animation is not truly two-way: it appears only to close then loop back to the open position. You will need to animate an opening sequence and a closing sequence.

Your next step should be to read through MAMU's excellent post with sample code on page 4 of this thread; download and read his hangarScriptSample.zip. It took me a while, and help from Dick (Rumbaflappy), but I eventually got the hang of it for my TAB-V models.
 
SPerx said:
I took a look at the source material you uploaded. Your initial post mentioned that the doors do not stay open for more than a second. I suspect that the issue is that you have animated the doors but not got a control mechanism coded. That means that the door animation just cycles repeatedly, hence the doors not remaining open.

Firstly, it looks as if the door animation is not truly two-way: it appears only to close then loop back to the open position. You will need to animate an opening sequence and a closing sequence.

Your next step should be to read through MAMU's excellent post with sample code on page 4 of this thread; download and read his hangarScriptSample.zip. It took me a while, and help from Dick (Rumbaflappy), but I eventually got the hang of it for my TAB-V models.
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I looked at and downloaded the sample provided on page 4, and another sample provide from another post. This is how I got as far as I did, however neither mention anything about the blender animation. If you look at my worldscript file, you will notice that I used the sample file from page 4, which still include his comments. My weakness is Blender. I think I will just use the yoke to trigger the animation. This is way more complicated than it need be for a simple animation IMO. Thanks for your reply.
 
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