Simviation Forum - Canopy cover animation

Sep 21^st, 2003 at 11:38am

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I am building an SB2C-3 Helldiver (FSDS.2) with forward and rear sliding canopy covers. I have animated both with keyframe commands f_canopy and r_canopy. The problem is that in FS2002, I am using SHIFT+E for the exit and it only operates the front sliding canopy cover. I can get the front and rear covers to slide simultaneously by designating the rear canopy as f_canopy.1, but I want to be able to move them separately. It is really a problem of setting a command in FS2002 -- but what ?

Can somebody help please ?

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Reply #1 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 12:14pm

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Im no expert at canopies sorry but I can give the following help. Have you tried SHIFT+E+2? if you have and that didnt work go into the Aircraft.cfg and look for the following

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[exits]
number_of_exits=2
exit_rate.0=0.4 ;Percent per second
exit_rate.1=0.4 ;Percent per second

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That was taken off the default 737-400 but you need to make sure you have your noe (number_of_exits=2)

And your exit_rate.0
exit_rate.1 to the time that you want it (in seconds for delayed opening or opening time (something like that)

Good Luck

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Reply #2 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 12:53pm

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Thanks very much nwt. I am glad to find somebody who are also not an expert. I must admit that I have overlooked the .cfg file. I will look at it immediately.
Thanks

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Reply #3 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 1:15pm

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Thanks again nwt. It works !!!!

This is the best piece of information I received in a long time. You have really made my day !!

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Reply #4 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 2:11pm

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Not entirely on topic but in case you get the same problem I did a while back, it might help to warn you now that sometimes smoke effects stop secondary door/canopy animations working.........

Just thought I'd warn you!

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Reply #5 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 2:22pm

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N/P Ajver just helping out a fellow designer Wink

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Reply #6 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 8:05pm

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Remember - the neat thing about flightsim design, when you get right down to it, is NOT whether gWax is better that FSDS, or whether you can jump the hoops better with 3DSMax, Rhino.... The real nice thing is the flightsimmers helping each other - as long as we don't lose sight of that, the design program doesn't matter.

You don't have to be an "expert" to help someone out, because sometimes the "experts" need help themselves.

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Thanks very much nwt. I am glad to find somebody who are also not an expert. I must admit that I have overlooked the .cfg file. I will look at it immediately.
Thanks

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Reply #7 - Sep 21^st, 2003 at 8:08pm

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Remember - the neat thing about flightsim design, when you get right down to it, is NOT whether gWax is better that FSDS, or whether you can jump the hoops better with 3DSMax, Rhino.... The real nice thing is the flightsimmers helping each other - as long as we don't lose sight of that, the design program doesn't matter.

You don't have to be an "expert" to help someone out, because sometimes the "experts" need help themselves.

True very True

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Reply #8 - Sep 22^nd, 2003 at 6:08am

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Hello HABU. Yes, you are right -- operation of the secondary door results in all kinds of funny things. For example, the zoom control is gone !!! Shocked

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