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FSXA Animated MDL with LOD problem

dgpilot1

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Got another one for you guys to crack. :banghead:

I have an animation, that has LODs in MDL format. For multiple technical reasons, I made it into a simobject and it appears correctly, with LODs correctly.

Problem: Whenever I move more than 100 ft away from the animation, the animation stops. The object is still there, but the animated seems like it pauses.

I've tried adding extra objects to make the bounding box bigger, then the animation works but the LODs stop working.

I'm bout to throw this pc out the window, fsx is so frustrating. Any ways I can get this anim to show at larger distance with both LODs and anim working?
 
Going to be a little hard without the actual file.

Assuming your lower LODs are animated also, and tagged and exported correctly ... That would leave an incorrect hierarchy in the Gmax file.
 
Hi,

A little more information would help indeed. Are all lods animated? Which values did you use for the lod?

If you make the object bigger, the lod switching will happen later. Could that be why you think it no longer works?
 
To me it sounds as though in your LOD-ing you are removing a basic part that the animation hinges on. If that's the case you'll need to make a simple dummy object that "carries" the animation through the LODs with a steadily diminishing number of things linked to it.

I'm suggesting this because I did it once.
 
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