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FSXA Simple rotation animation - How to do in Gmax?

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Hi all,

I try to create a windturbine. Modeling all parts is not the problem.
But I would like to animate the rotation, at the moment with all tutorials here that I have found and read, I´m not able to see any animation in FSX.

Can you give a clear tutorial (link maybe to tutorial here on FSD) how to create the animation in Gmax ?

Thank you

Arne
 
Have you tried looking in the aircraft modelling forums here? Animations are regularly discussed there as they are a vital part of aircraft modelling. Animations for scenery models are a bit of a rare item although some things have been done (and done well) in the past.
 
Hi,

Maybe you can tell us what you did already? Did you make a key frame animation? Did you use the animation editor script to assign it an animation type (ambient animation would be good)?
 
well, for a windturbine is difficult to find something ( I made my serch), but I think is easy to make windturbine animation, you have to rotate the blades of the windturbine while the "anime" button is on, and before you have moved the slider in the track all the way to the left.
Once you get the animation, you go to Sdk tool animation panel, and tag the animation (with ambient tag), and set the duration of the motion, etc, you will se all this in the windows. and click create.
You have to select the animated object before. in this case would be the blades.
This is the very basic of an animation, of coure it's much more.
 
Hi Arno, Hi Bernardo,

yes, at the moment I used a key frame animation, animation goes from frame 0 until 1023, at the moment. I will adjust it later mto a smaller value, because one complete rotation should be 6 seconds, so I think, a normal animation should be 150 frames long ? (6sec x 25 frames).
Animation in Gmax works well, but after export, FSX shows no animation yet.

I will read some of the animation threads in the aircraft section and try to find a solution.

Thanks for the input.

Arne
 
Once you have tagged the animation, be sure when exported to check the export animation box, I can't think of any other issue which can make the animation not work.
 
Hello,
I did the complete model, and I did a Keyframe Animation, but I see a problem that I have: I made it with 4 Keys, every 90 degrees, but the animation begins slowly and then it goes faster and then slow again, I am not 100% sure, but I think this process occures between every keys. How can I make that it keeps always the same ritmus?

Thanks for your help
Johannes
 
Try with 5 Keyframes.

Kf0 - 0 degrees
Kf 25 - 90 degrees
Kf 50 - 180 degrees
Kf 75 - 270 degrees
Kf 100 - 360 degrees.

Also make sure the rotation is linear :)
 
Animation - it works

Hi all,

thanks for your input here.
Now, I am able to see the animation also in FSX. :)
The problem here with me was the Animation Manager,
"Ambient" was selected but not attached in the "Object Anims", and the Create Button. :D I found an "Animation in FSX" Tutorial on the www.airfieldconstructiongroup.org site.

Now I can fill my world with wind-generators. :D

Best regards
Arne
 
I have the rotating radar tutorial from this site, very good tutorials. basically it's no so difficult you can get an animation, but I have problems with the transition betwen the end and inital frame of the animations ,at this point you see how the animation jump, how correct this. maybe setting exactly the grades of rotation for every keyframe ?
 
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I used an animation lenghts of 150 frames, starting at 0 with 0 deg, than every 25 frames an new key with a rotation of 60 degrees, so
25 at 60 deg
50 at 120
75 at 180
100 240
125 300
and 150 with 360 degrees.

Animation in Gmax and FSX is abaolutely linear.
 
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