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ASR-9 Radar

jonmkj

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Hey guys... I need to make a radar with FSDS 3.1.

What do I need to do? It's the ASR-9 type with the big rotating red radar on top. I can build it very easily, I just need to know how to get the radar to spin.
 
Dear jonmkj:

You've got to use animation with the radar dish.
Find out how to animate a group of objects with FSDS.

I made a ASR-9 radar with animation using 3Ds Max for FSX.

Thanks.
Alfredo Mendiola Loyola
Lima Perú
 
I remember that we could use the beacon* animation tags, but I believe that was for FS2002/FSDS2.

Since this is for FS2004, can the tick18 tag be used?

(I don't have FSDS on this machine right now to double check).


The modelling of the radar is not important - whether it's FSDS, gmax, Max... it's how it's named/tagged that's the important thing.
 
Thanks for the pointers guys...

I'd like to have a look at your rendition of the ASR-9 if you wouldn't mind :D
 
Here is the Radar at Lima, Callao.

Alfredo Mendiola Loyola
Lima, Perú
 

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Aha! Looks very nice!

The top part is exactly what I'm going for, but the base is a little different. It's wider and gray. More specifically, its the radar at KGSO.

Of course, KMYR is on my "to-do" list as well, and they have an ASR-9 AND the new ASR-11... which look the same so it doesn't really matter
 
ok, i got the radar modeled, and i followed the directions exactly to get it animated. So i load it up in FSX, and the radar tower looks nice, but the dish is halfway buried in the ground sideways, and isn't moving at all.
 
the part axis is at the bottom of the radar dish, the place where it should rotate around.

should it be set as the child?
 
Possibly - make a small box, unanimated and the same coordinates of the radar part. Makes the box a child of the tower, and the radar a child of the box.
 
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