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CAT: activating a (second) animation

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José Bourgoignie

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Hi,

I wonder if it is possible with the CAT tool to do the following tweak:
I like to activate a second animation when my vehicle/aircraft starts to move forwards. Either because I move the vehicle, leave his parking spot or maybe I gain some speed (rpm).
Hope that's possible. Or any other suggestions ?

Greetz. José.
 
Hi,

Do you mean an additional animation within another animation? No that is not supported by CAT, you can only trigger all animations in your MDL file at once. Something like that would require deep and advanced ASM tweaking :).
 
Hi Arno,

I think that saying a "second" animation is not quiet right.
Simply activate an animation when I move the vehicle: maybe I could put a refpoint nearby it's parking place and that should trigger the animation... but how to do that (in fact maybe a reversed way of working: when leaving this spot = activating an endless animation).

Of course I could activate the animation with the activation of a NAV frequency... but that's rather weird and not automatic.

Or is it better using MDLTweaker ?

Greetz. José.
 
I don't think this is possible with the tool currently.

Is it possible to create two seperate mdl's positioned at the same location and overlap them? One with the part you want to animate second....

Just an idea.
 
Maybe a weird idea, but if you want the wheels to move when the object moves. Why not simply include their animation into the animation of the movement as well? Or do you not do that with an animation.
 
Hi Arno,

Can I combine the animation of the wheels (via L_Tire_Still and L_Tire_Blurred) with the "second animation": the Tick18_ must be at the moment that the vehicle starts rolling activated... this second animation may not be active when the vehicle stands still. :cool:

Greetz.. José.
 
Hi,

Those wheel animations you mention are for aircraft only, while CAT is for scenery only. So that is not something you can combine. For a scenery all animations are tick18.

So I think it is not so hard to only animate the wheels while the animation for the rest of the vehicle is also moving.
 
Hi Arno,

For animating the wheels: that is solved.

So I think it is not so hard to only animate the wheels while the animation for the rest of the vehicle is also moving.
Click to expand...

How to link a scenery to an aircraft ? Or did I misunderstand you and it cannot be done ?

Greetz. José.
 
No, you can not mix the two. Especially in FS2004 they use different MDL formats, etc. So CAT is only for scenery not for aircraft.
 
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