Hi


im at the finishing of my plane but i have a litlle probleme.

i have made a ejectable gear for my plane (levasseur PL8 of nungesser and coli) hall animation go well my landing gear is ejectable but i dont know how to make it desapear at the end of the sequence  ??? i know that is possible becose i have see a messerschmitt 163 "komet" simulate that  in cfs2 ?  pls help    ???

hmm.... with ejectable gear in 2k2/4, all you have to do is from 0-99 frames in gmax have it going down or whatever, and at 100 have it inside the plane. that way it won't be seen going into the plane, because one frame is VERY fast in FS

Not working becose the gear not desapear at 99 % he move fast at the place i hace seed the gear but he not desapear ! ???

Felix,
I have the similar problem with landing gear,and after may be 100000000 experiments with animations found out one thing-if in first frame of animation gear is fully retracted-an aircraft appears without gear on start position-and no matter what happens in next frame...
This the way the thing work in my sim...

May be you mean to write-
frame0=fully extended,frame1=fully retracted?
frame100=fully extended?

If I do animation this way-aircraft appears on start position with gear extended as it should be,then when airborn after I press G-gear is going up but for some reason retraction animation happens very fast,during one frame,although in cfg time is set to 5 second...

And,finally one thing is still unclear to me how to make gear extend back?With pressing G another time nothing happens...

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I know,but in this case aircraft appears at start position with gear retracted!

I dont know why it happens so,I dont know who invented such a siquence but the state of gear in frame 0 always will be state of gear in sim start position...
I mean if in frame0 gear is retracted in sim-aircraft standing on the ranway with gear retracted,if in frame0 gear is extended-in sim gear is extended on start...

Please explane me-what I am missing,but gear animation works this may in my sim,may be my
sim copy is wrong one?!

Felix is right all aircraft have the same keyframes.

0 = fully retracted, 100 = fully extended, 101-200 = for gear compression animation.

This is how it works, this is how I've always done it, there are no two ways about it.

Check the tutorials and they will say the same thing.

You stated:

"I mean if in frame 0 gear is retracted in sim-aircraft standing on the ranway with gear retracted,if in frame0 gear is extended-in sim gear is extended on start... "

Thats almost right, if the gear is fully retracted at keyframe 0, when fs2002/4 starts (on the ground) the gear is already at keyframe 100 and will wait until you take off and hit 'g' before it goes to keyframe 0.

Got it after 7:00 hour of work ! 

the gear fall and dissapear !

i  have rename my r-gear_top (whit tire attached on it), r_wheelwell

then make a small box (.001m x .001m) erase hall poligon so ivisible !  8)
name it r_gear_top put the pivot of the box ender  the plane at 11 metre of distance time of the fall 1.5 sec  (Distance pivot = .5*Gravity*Time^2) make the whellwell (the gear) the parent of the r-gear_top and export the thing 

thank alot for the help guys i apreciate   

Im used Gmax your formula work but what i whanna do is simulate the fall of the gear (not only dissapear) that why your formula not working for my projet.

got it after some testing yesterday ! 8)

i  have rename my r-gear_top (whit tire attached on it), r_wheelwell 
 
then make a small box (.001m x .001m) erase hall poligon so ivisible !   
name it r_gear_top put the pivot of the box ender  the plane at 11 metre of distance time of the fall 1.5 sec  (Distance pivot = .5*Gravity*Time^2) make the whellwell (the gear) the parent of the r-gear_top and export the thing

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Is that the name you would give to a part?

Thanks to Felix, I now have great fun using my lav_dump_valves! 

Its useful for so many things.......... I used it to simulate drop tanks droping from the aircraft! Also refueling doors, the possibilities are endless!!