I know another thread

[Falcon500]

But hey Ive got a lot of questions, the big one now, say i have a landing gear strut, would the L_gear be a group of all the parts needed to make up the strut (the blue, pink, yellow, and purple bits)




(This is my old B-25H project)

[Travis]

Actually, what you should do is name all the parts with the prefix L_Gear, and then add a suffix's to them to differentiate between the parts.  For instance: L_Gear_top, L_Gear_bottom, L_Gear_strut, etc.  Then animate and link.  The FS game engine will know what to do with the info . . .

[Felix/FFDS]

For FS9, your gear animated parts should be named L_gear_xx (note that your NON-animated parts don't have to follow thie numdered suffix convention - you can name a non-animated part l_gear_poppet to keep it in a logical "parts list" sequence)

For FS-X, you can name it whatever you want, and then reference the "l_gear" animation in FS-X tools.  For convenience, it is "good practice" to keep the "l_gear" naming convention.

[Falcon500]

makes enough sense, now how about having more than 100 keyframes?

[Travis]

makes enough sense, now how about having more than 100 keyframes?

Well, all gear reference 200 keyframes anyway.  0-100 is the closed-to-open animation; 101-200 is the gear compression.

Otherwise, why would you need more than 100 frames?

[Greg Ebnit EApilot]

Hey all. Not sure how well you know the UI in Gmax Falcon but if you mean how to change the time scale right click the Time configuration and change the end frames. Wasnt sure if you needed to know the animation part or the UI.
Still things Im learning about the UI.
Also when your animating scenery or any Tick18 part you can only have a max of 1024 frames. Which is handy to know if you ever animate a ground object.

[Falcon500]

well, Greg thats what I needed :-?

you ready for a pair of ships?

[Greg Ebnit EApilot]

Anytime buddy. 8-) Also I just uploaded a new Music vid at U-tube featuring the Black Stallion and the Great Lakes Freighters. Hope you dont mind a little prerelease PR Rob. 8-)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MpkPqwLSPuM

[Falcon500]

Holy cow

[Travis]

Nice job with the horse, Greg!  It looks especially good from the rider's perspective . . .  :o

[Falcon500]

Anywho, I got the center gear to do its thing, the "slow" set of both props, ailerons, elevator.

but now i need to change out tires for the left and right, they are transparent (new ones) and the left engine is transparent (merge newer version that i fixed)

[Falcon500]

well after near eight hours work, im no where near where i would have like to be



the rudder, tires and prop spin at oblique angles still (i know affect pivot point) but i think im half retarded, or i hit my gmax vmax..... and the left and right gear do not move

[Falcon500]

AHHHHH WHAT DOES IT MEAN





sorry bout that  :-[



I got all the props and the tires to spin in the right directions and the rudders are fixed

but the to rear gear still dont move (i think its that error)

[Greg Ebnit EApilot]

Yep that is the most annoying error I get it alot when the transform gets out of wack.
Just select the effected part and remove the animation. Then go to the hiearchy tab and reset the transform scale. Then reanimate. (see pic)
Model looks great!

[Falcon500]

YOU ARE NOW ME RE-NEW FAVORITE PERSON AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






but what about the gear doors, what what what   dont see any key animations for them