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Y axis Problem animating my Jetway

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drmiller21

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I animated a jetway in Gmax for my Pasco V2 Scenery that I am currently working on. When animating on the Z axis only, the rotation towards the aircraft...all the parts work perfectly. Now when I try to add the Y axis to go vertical, to position the jetway with the door height it works in Gmax. But when I create the mdl and add my conditions with cat compile, the bgl the model is completly apart. The wheels at the head of the jetway, and the stairs are way out in front. Whats going on here and what can I due to fix it? I have watched the tutorial alot but it does not talk about this issue. Here is a picture to show what result I get after adding the Y vertical axis.

jetway2.jpg
 
Linear prs

hcornea said:
Are you using a LINEAR PRS animation controller?
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Ok, not really sure I followed the steps out lined in the FS9 Jetway animations video. I am using a helper box at the the main pivot point. I then link all the parts together via the link tool and make my animation movements all works fine until I try to add the vertical movement.


donald
 
Select your object thats animated.
Open motion parameter next to hierarchy.
Open assign controllers and make sure position and rotation is set to linear.
If not, open the assign controller (green icon with black arrow pointing to the right) and choose linear from the list on both the position and rotation.
You can also set it to default so all animations you make will be linear.

Had some wicked animation before I learned about this :D
 
Zeiten said:
Select your object thats animated.
Open motion parameter next to hierarchy.
Open assign controllers and make sure position and rotation is set to linear.
If not, open the assign controller (green icon with black arrow pointing to the right) and choose linear from the list on both the position and rotation.
You can also set it to default so all animations you make will be linear.

Had some wicked animation before I learned about this :D
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OK, Just tried setting all parts that are animated to linear (Position and rotation) I am still getting the same result as before. I am wondering if I should set Linear to the objects that are giving me the problem only?



Donald:confused:
 
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Zeiten said:
Select your object thats animated.
Open motion parameter next to hierarchy.
Open assign controllers and make sure position and rotation is set to linear.
If not, open the assign controller (green icon with black arrow pointing to the right) and choose linear from the list on both the position and rotation.
You can also set it to default so all animations you make will be linear.

Had some wicked animation before I learned about this :D
Click to expand...

Found the awnser: It was in the way it was linked if done in the wrong order the parts will not line up.


donald
 
It's importent to link the child to the parent and not the other way around :)
 
jetway

Yes,

I think that's what happened I had the parent child out of sequence. I did actually decided to build my own Gmax jetway witch has a straight forward parent child relation ship witch works perfectly. I also followed your advice on making the model linear just to be safe no problems all worked well.





Donald Miller:)
 
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