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ambient animation at regular intervals

I don't know how to apply material but I can use some other very basic object and work with that.
 
Well, I noted that Henrik N did pretty much the same thing with a number of his ships -- rotating radar. So I chose one and random and opened it up in MCX.

Sure enough, I see the radar rotating in MCX. So it is possible.

One thing though -- you see where there is one line listed here for the animation, Ambient Len=100? Well when I export all these rotating animations from Blender and open in MCX I see two lines, exactly the same. Why might that be?

 
Well, I seem to have made some progress. I have managed to get the radar rotation animation to function in MCX, on several models now.

Having some trouble making them all behave as intended in FSX, but at least I have gotten to rotate, if not exactly correctly.
 
OK the trick was having at least 3 keyframes on the rotation animations. And really there should be 5 ---> start frame, 90 degrees, 180 degress, 270 degrees, and then a final frame.

I have one model working exactly as intended in P3D (why did I type FSX above?). Still plugging away.
 
Now I can claim victory -- thanks for the help.

This was indeed the trick here, as I mentioned. Need to make sure I have at least 3 keyframes on the rotation animations, and better to have 5 keyframes ---> start frame, 90 degrees, 180 degress, 270 degrees, and then a final frame. Then go to Graphical Menu, and change to Linear Interpolation, and voila! Save that puppy, and tag it per the instructions in toolset manual.

It might be beneficial to add some mention of this to the manual, BTW, as it something that is evidently specific to rotation animations.
 
Been going back and recompiling my ship models, adding in the rotating radar animations:






Starting to learn my way around now in Blender, as least for a handful of basic commands. Really liking it so far.
 
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