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Animation Question

Ed Akridge

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Is there a way to animate an out of round object as an FSX wheel/tire? What I'm working on is a Sherman Tank for FSX. I have all of the drive wheels as Right or Left wheel still/blurred. What I would like to do is animate the tracks.
 
Oh boy talk about a challenge :)
you could make a custom animation using the wheel tags and 1000 kf, then animate each segment of the track. lot of work and then you have issues with suspension ect.
only thing in fs Ive seen that is similar is the chain drive on the wright flyer in fs9, but like VC rain that was dropped in fsx
 
You don't need to animate each link of each track doing a full loop.

If each segment is textured the same then you only need to animate the track for the distance of one link.

For example, in this picture you would create single part segments between each yellow line. It's only when you have a segment that is one link long that you need to turn the link to connect up with the longer segment. When you get to the end of the animation you jump straight back to the start and it will appear seamless.

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That's brilliant. I never thought of that myself. Tried years ago to get a large mobile platform to roll like that, and just ran into all sorts of logistical nightmares.
 
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