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Warning: part information for rudder_key indicates that it is deprecated!?

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I can't shake the nagging, somewhat tongue-in-cheek suspicion that if I knew the meaning of this message, I might be able to make my model work. I know I should be working on key frames and not definitions, but please bear with. I searched online and found the word, "depreciated" which is a financial term that names the concept of "reduced in, or loss of" value. I can see how that term might apply to my model because it doesn't do anything like I might expect and the implication is that I might have been better off devoting my time to more profitable pursuits; however, that implication is double edged in that the value that is depreciated from is known, otherwise the depreciation could not be registered. This, in turn, implies by extension (kind of a double implication, maybe like mortgage backed securities) that the "preciate" value could be restored. Any ideas?
 
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Here's an image to support my assertion:

depricated.jpg


Whatever deprecation is, it can't be that bad, because rudder_key was the first animation that worked as intended, the rest following after due diligence. I could offer that when I animated the part in FSDS, it remained in the neutral position (in my case straight forward as it was the tow arm on a push-back tug), however when imported into MCX and compiled into a model, the arm remained tilted to the side, overextended in that direction and never went past neutral turning the other direction. To compensate, I simply rotated the model in FSDS the same degree in the opposite direction to make it work perfectly; perhaps that change is what MCX interprets as "deprecated."
 
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Deprecated means that it has been superseded by another function but it may still work.
 
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In this instance "deprecated" means that the command was slated for removal in the next version of the sim. A "warning" is just what it states. It is not an "error" yet...

Note that the new "modeldef.xml" command name is "rudder_percent_key" which uses the new (A:RUDDER DEFLECTION PCT,percent) variable rather than the old (A:RUDDER DEFLECTION,gradians) variable.
 
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So, you're saying it won't work in P3D? Because that is kind of a problem...
 
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=rk= said:
So, you're saying it won't work in P3D? Because that is kind of a problem...
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No, that's not what I'm saying at all. First, understand that "rudder_key" is nothing more nor less than a definition in the modeldef.xml file. As it happens, it is still present even in the Prepar3Dv2.2 SDK (and still marked as 'deprecated' to boot!):
Code: 
    <PartInfo deprecated="true">
        <Name>rudder_key</Name>
        <AnimLength>100</AnimLength>
        <Animation>
            <Parameter>
                <Sim>
                    <Variable>RUDDER DEFLECTION</Variable>
                    <Units>grads</Units>
                    <Bias>50</Bias>
                </Sim>
            </Parameter>
        </Animation>
    </PartInfo>
 
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Nice, thanks so much. I think I should familiarize myself with that modeldef.xml.
 
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