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Oct 8^th, 2004 at 2:13pm

Travis Offline
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I have created a new scenery object which I have placed near the equator in Columbia. Whenever I load it up, it will only show up when I am in Slew mode. If I get out of Slew mode, it immediately disappears, even when I am sitting on the ground next to it.

What might be causing this? The scenery was created in Gmax, and I am using MdlCommander and MiddleMan to export. Might that be an issue? The scenery is also very large (something like 16 km across), but I set the view distance in the export process to 50,000. Could this be affecting it as well?

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Reply #1 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 9:01am

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No experience with GMAX, but my advice is to break it up in smaller parts

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Reply #2 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 10:48am

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Good Grief!

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16 km across...one object...oh yeah, that would be the problem.

I've created a few big scenery object myself, my largest one was probably somewhat smaller than that (although it was for 2002, I doubt much has changed.) it would only pop into view when I was almost right on top of it.

As nice as it would be, the engine just won't support anything that big.

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Reply #3 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 5:29pm

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Okay, so that one ain't gonna work . . .

So I started a new one. This one is much more decently sized. Its just a little eye candy for Cape Canaveral. But now I have a new problem. The scenery is supposed to move, so I'm attempting to use Tick18 to animate it, but it doesn't move in the sim.

The motion in Gmax goes from 0-1023 (1024 frames) and the animation starts at 1 and ends at 1023. I followed the guidelines for scenery creation in the SDKs, with everything in the scene being linked to a dummy object, and the Tick18 making a rotation animation.

But it won't work! Help?

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