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FSDS 3.5.1 XtoMdl problem

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After compiling a static scenery ship model that is suppose to have a rotating radar on the mast, using XtoMdl, and then "Instant Scenery" to place it in FSXA, I find that the radar dish is not up on the ships mast. But rather inside the ships hull on the ocean surface, and centered amid ships. Not rotating either.

Works fine when compiling with makemdl for both FSXA and FS9.

If I compile through FSDSXtweak, the radar dish is where it is suppose to be, up on the mast. But still not rotating.

I read something about animating an object with FSDSXtweak. But not sure I fully understand how to do that.

Thanks for any help.
 
skiperoo1 said:
After compiling a static scenery ship model that is suppose to have a rotating radar on the mast, using XtoMdl, and then "Instant Scenery" to place it in FSXA, I find that the radar dish is not up on the ships mast. But rather inside the ships hull on the ocean surface, and centered amid ships. Not rotating either.

Works fine when compiling with makemdl for both FSXA and FS9.

If I compile through FSDSXtweak, the radar dish is where it is suppose to be, up on the mast. But still not rotating.

I read something about animating an object with FSDSXtweak. But not sure I fully understand how to do that.

Thanks for any help.
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This is a "quicky off the cuff suggestion" but it happened to me a long time ago. If you originally designed for FS9 you would have used tick18 as the name for your rotating part. That name doesn't work in FSX (and XtoMdl) so the animated part winds up at the origin of the project. All is not lost if this is the problem; just change the name of the animated part to Ambient.

Hope this helps, Paul
 
Hi Paul, I tried that. Still have the same results. I had previously used this same radar dish on a ship model that I had constructed several years ago for FS9. So I imported it into the present ship model. And I'm beginning to wonder if maybe that part still contains some internal coding from back then, that may be screwing things up.

Have been pulling my hair out for several days, haha. Even tried re-animating the part. Dumb me... Maybe I should try making a simple cube for this model, put it up on the mast, animate it and see what happens. I'll have a go at that this evening. I drive a school bus, and have to go back to work this afternoon.
 
Hi,
Remember that moving the object after putting the animation on it will cause this kind of problem.
 
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