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Hi all

I need some help with regard to animation. I understand that we can embed animation in the model from some of the posts in this forum.

For instance, i can create a tower model, with an object on top of the tower that is animated to turn left and right. However are we able to control the animation to the extent of when the object will turn and how much it will turn (heading)?

Thanks.
 
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This is a good question for Arno.

There used to be ways to use distance to do this. Also, people were having things triggered by tower frequencies. I dont know how this is done, and I dont know of its still possible in FSX.


Bill
 
Not sure if I understand the question completely, but with the FSX MDL format conditional animations are no longer possible. If you want to use the CAT tool as Nick suggests, you would have to use the FS2004 gamepack.

What is it exactly that you want your animation to do? Base the amount of animation on some variable or trigger it with something?
 
Hi Arno,

Basically my model contains a component that is attached to the top of another object. I need to animate the top component to turn from its current heading to a new target heading.

For example, if the top component is facing north currently and i need it to turn 30 degrees clockwise, i want to be able to control the component to start animating from its current heading (0 degrees) to the target heading (30 degrees).

I hope this explains.

Thanks.
 
Hi,

I understand what you want, but I don't understand yet how you think you can tell it to rotate to 30 degrees. Do you want to use some FS variable for that or do you see it as some external input you provide yourself? For scenery that is not possible. For aircraft I am not 100% sure, but I think it is not possible as well.
 
Hi Arno,

Thats exactly my issue. I have no idea whether i can "tell" the object to animate to the desired state, so i was wondering whether there are any other methods (which i didn't know of) that can possibly achieved the desired effect or even something close to the desired effect. Anyway really thanks for your advice. :)

Cheers
 
Do you want something in the aircraft to control it?

For example, do you want a frequency change to do it?

Or... do you want a weather change to do it, time of the day?
 
Hi,

Was doing some other aspects of FSX over the last few months. Now back to this issue again. Preferably i am looking at controlling the animation via simconnect.

Thks,
 
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