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Cable animation help  :(

Postby Woodylepic » Sun Feb 29, 2004 11:13 pm

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some body know how to animate aileron cable and push rod cable like this one up there my plane is near finision just need some animate cable  :(
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Re: Cable animation help

Postby RIC_BARKER » Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:40 am

Can you not just animate it with keyframes as per normal?

If it's for the VC the part name would be "Lever_stick_fore_aft"

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Re: Cable animation help

Postby d0mokun » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:43 pm

yeah- i'd simply use a position key and animate it over 0-100 moving..
good luck mate.. what plane is that btw?
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Re: Cable animation help

Postby Woodylepic » Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:52 pm

you mean moving the wire at heach sequence until i reach 100 frame ?
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Re: Cable animation help

Postby Woodylepic » Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:55 pm

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The famous Levasseur_pl8 of nungesser and colie (1927)
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Re: Cable animation help

Postby RIC_BARKER » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:46 am

Unless the calbe changes direction somwhere in the sequence, you set keyframes for 0, 50 (neutral) and 100 only, and it will work.

Looks good BTW.

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Re: Cable animation help

Postby Woodylepic » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:21 am

Yes i whante the cable to fallow the course of the throttle lever, but like the aileron cable the course is not rectiligne can you explain much in detail pls ...
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Re: Cable animation help

Postby RIC_BARKER » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:29 am

Have you tried looking here?

http://www.simcraft.nl/control_column.html

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