Simviation Forum - FSDS2 KEYFRAME ANIMATION PROBLEM....

Aug 18^th, 2003 at 10:35am

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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 Angry

i cant figure out whats wwroong!!! Cry

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 Tongue

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

what can i do?!?!? Embarrassed

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Reply #1 - Aug 18^th, 2003 at 3:36pm

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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?

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Reply #2 - Aug 18^th, 2003 at 7:09pm

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

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

btw, i ried the bomb_bay tag and the cargo_door tag with no effect Tongue

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?

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Reply #3 - Aug 18^th, 2003 at 7:25pm

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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?

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Reply #4 - Aug 18^th, 2003 at 7:31pm

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ya, they are bomb bay doors...

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Reply #5 - Aug 18^th, 2003 at 9:22pm

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#1 -Make sure that bomb_bay isn't remmed out ( Wink

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.

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Reply #6 - Aug 20^th, 2003 at 9:29am

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#1 -Make sure that bomb_bay isn't remmed out ( Wink

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... Sad

elaborate please... Embarrassed

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

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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 Lips Sealed

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Reply #7 - Aug 20^th, 2003 at 2:40pm

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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

i re tagged the parts, i named the part bomb_bay and on the preprocess i also processed it as bomb bay and gave it the variables of 0 and 100 the prob is that the part doesnt show on the game Cry

what can i do?!?!?! Sad

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last edit:

I JUST FIXED IT Grin

« Last Edit: Aug 21^st, 2003 at 9:48am by Threadkiller »

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Reply #8 - Aug 21^st, 2003 at 8:16pm

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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

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Reply #9 - Aug 21^st, 2003 at 9:23pm

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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 Grin

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Reply #10 - Aug 27^th, 2003 at 6:28am

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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.

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Reply #11 - Aug 27^th, 2003 at 6:50am

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Ít's in the FSDS main folder.

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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.

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Reply #12 - Aug 27^th, 2003 at 9:07pm

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

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