FSDS2 KEYFRAME ANIMATION PROBLEM....

[Threadkiller]

im trying to animate the bomb bay doors with the spoiler key, i tagged them, i picked the name from the keyframe animation tag list.... i added the keyframes and compiled but the thing is not working i cant figure out whats wwroong!!!

i checked the help file and it says that i have to add a pre process, but that is meant for actual spoilers, and i want the bomb bay doors to oopen when u hit the spoiler key

i cannot tag them as a moving canopy becasue i already have the canopy stuff animated....


what can i do?!?!?  :-[

[RIC_BARKER]

Rather than use the spoiler and keyframe method, have you tried using the 'lav dump valve' tag?

Make sure your axis' are lined up correctly, an it's animated between 0-100.

More info would be useful. Does the part not appear in fs, or just not move?

Ric B.

[Threadkiller]

no, i havent tried that tag, and the part appears in CFS2 it just doesnt move

whats that tag for??? what key triggers it?

btw, i ried the bomb_bay tag and the cargo_door tag with no effect the axis are checked and in place, the part is animated between 1 & 100

if i add the tag u told me to, do i eed to add any pre process?

[RIC_BARKER]

Hmm, this is odd.

I'm not that familiar with CFS2, but, from what you have described, it should work.

Why do you need to add a pre-process? Is this so the doors won't open on the ground?

[Threadkiller]

ya, they are bomb bay doors...

[Felix/FFDS]

#1 -Make sure that bomb_bay isn't remmed out (;) in your mdl_paramDict_cfs2.txt file (FSDS2 main directory)

#2 - Typically, you need a spoiler entry in the aircraft.cfg file.

#3 - If you're using the LDV, remember it's a water rudder, used with the Shift-W ket, but you need anb entry in the aircraft.cfg file.

[Threadkiller]

#1 -Make sure that bomb_bay isn't remmed out (;) in your mdl_paramDict_cfs2.txt file (FSDS2 main directory)

#2 - Typically, you need a spoiler entry in the aircraft.cfg file.

i dont get the first one... elaborate please...  :-[

for the second one, what does a spoiler entry looks like??? (someone else did the CFG and i dont have an editor, only notepad )

and as far as i know, my bay doors have nothing o do with water rudders... (im faairly new to this animation bussiness so, i dont really undertand  :-X )

[Threadkiller]

Felix, i checked on that whatever file and the bomb_bay tag does not have the little colon [;]

i have an entry on the CFG file that goes like this

[exits]
number_of_exits=1
exit_rate.0=0.4

[Merlin66]

Come on, come on.. for the rest of us who will probably face the a similar problem on a future aircraft.... what WAS the solution???
Ken

[Threadkiller]

Come on, come on.. for the rest of us who will probably face the a similar problem on a future aircraft.... what WAS the solution???
Ken

well i looked on the files that FELIX said and i added the ; to he bomb_bay tag and removed the ; from the spoilers

[Glitch]

I am having a simular problem. I looked in my FS2002 main directory for the mdl_paramDict_cfs2.txt file but cannot find it.  Could someone  direct me to it. I am trying to add swing wings to an aircraft for cfs2. I used the tags from the keyframe animation list, animated 0-100, worked fine in FSDS2 till I compiled it. I got an error message saying the 2 spoilers were not keyframe animation parts. But I picked the names from the keyframe animation list. Fsds2 processed the aircraft and sure enough when I pressed the spoiler key nothing happened.

[Felix/FFDS]

[Glitch]

Yup! That'll learn me to read the posts more carefully.