P3D v4 How does one make wingflex ?

[Osian]

As the title says how does one make wing flex in Blender when flaps etc are already animated ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[F747fly]

Armature animations in the wing, parent the wind, flaps, slats, ailerons, spoilers, etc. to the armature and tag the armature either with l/r_wing_flex (default) or your own animation tag.

 

[Osian]

Armature animations in the wing, parent the wind, flaps, slats, ailerons, spoilers, etc. to the armature and tag the armature either with l/r_wing_flex (default) or your own animation tag.

Hmm I already looked into that but didn't work out

 

[F747fly]

Then you did something wrong, talk us through what you did.

 

[Osian]

I figured the armature thing out, I scaled them wrong

 

[Osian]

Ok so I got the armature to work but how do I assign the animation, I have tried everything but it wont work, and it wont display the animation in MDX ?

 

[Osian]

How does one assign the wingflex animation to the armature ?

 

[F747fly]

go in to pose mode, select your armatures and assign the tag as you'd do with any other object

 

[Osian]

I am going to bump my own thread here.
After trying for two years I still to this day can't get Wing-flex to work for me.
I tried everything but eh it isn't working.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for Blender where they show an example with an airliner?

 

[Robert Richardson]

Had precisely the same problem.
The only way I could get wing control surfaces to animate was by setting up a dummy set of animations
that followed exactly the animated armature, but completely separate from it, then set the animated ailerons and flaps as children of the dummies.
Does that make any sense?
I'll not be in a hurry to do it again!
Don't forget to highlight the armatures when compiling.

 

[Osian]

It's a lot of work
I might do it the old fashioned way by cutting the wing in pieces and animate each piece