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"V-Tail" control surface animations

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Good Afternoon Ladies & Gents,

Before I get started on what will be a Migraine, writing new animations for joint elevator/rudders for some of our V-Tail aircraft, I wanted to inquire:

  • Has this already been attempted?
    • Was the attempt met with success or failure?
    • Is the animation readily available?
  • Has this been established as impossible?
  • How beneficial would it be to the community of I were to write and release such an animation?
 
Are you talking about v-tails such as the Bonanza?

Typically, this is done with linked animations.

You have the visible part, animate is as the rudder, with a co-located part (it can be teh same part, stripped of its polygons, or usually, a small box "hiddend" within the geometry of the "rudder", but at the exact axis of the "rudder".

This is aniated as the "elevator".

The elevator is made a child of the "rudder".
 
Yes, V-Tails such as the Bonanza.

Aye, linked animations were my first thought, but just as quickly I knew that I wanted to not take that approach. It would look very awkward if at moments the elevator of a high-performance craft were pitched in upwards of 60*.

:stirthepo
 
linked conditional visibility parts? at high speeds, part B is visible (with "small" visible animation) at lower speeds, part A is visible, with "larger" visible animation...

This is thinking on the prop_still/slow/blurred way.... you don't really notice the "jump" when one comes on and the other 'turns off'
 
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