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Sep 12
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, 2007 at 10:02pm
Falcon500
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But hey Ive got a lot of questions, the big one now, say i have a landing gear strut, would the L_gear be a group of all the parts needed to make up the strut (the blue, pink, yellow, and purple bits)
(This is my old B-25H project)
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Sep 13
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Actually, what you should do is name all the parts with the prefix L_Gear, and then add a suffix's to them to differentiate between the parts. For instance: L_Gear_top, L_Gear_bottom, L_Gear_strut, etc. Then animate and link. The FS game engine will know what to do with the info . . .
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For FS9, your gear animated parts should be named L_gear_xx (note that your NON-animated parts don't have to follow thie numdered suffix convention - you can name a non-animated part l_gear_poppet to keep it in a logical "parts list" sequence)
For FS-X, you can name it whatever you want, and then reference the "l_gear" animation in FS-X tools. For convenience, it is "good practice" to keep the "l_gear" naming convention.
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Sep 13
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makes enough sense, now how about having more than 100 keyframes?
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Sep 14
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Falcon500 wrote
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, 2007 at 6:47pm:
makes enough sense, now how about having more than 100 keyframes?
Well, all gear reference
200
keyframes anyway. 0-100 is the closed-to-open animation; 101-200 is the gear compression.
Otherwise, why would you need more than 100 frames?
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Sep 14
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Hey all. Not sure how well you know the UI in Gmax Falcon but if you mean how to change the time scale right click the Time configuration and change the end frames. Wasnt sure if you needed to know the animation part or the UI.
Still things Im learning about the UI.
Also when your animating scenery or any Tick18 part you can only have a max of 1024 frames. Which is handy to know if you ever animate a ground object.
(AN ODE TO GMAX) OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GMAX! How I sometimes want to hug and kiss it. And other times want to smash, berate, and delete it. Gmax how I love and loathe thee. The crashes the errors the reinstalls. Gmax you are the whomb of my aircraft design. Oh Gmax my designing creating temptress. It must be love for you have taken my heartdrive. By Greg Ebnit
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Sep 14
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well, Greg thats what I needed
you ready for a pair of ships?
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Sep 15
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Anytime buddy.
Also I just uploaded a new Music vid at U-tube featuring the Black Stallion and the Great Lakes Freighters. Hope you dont mind a little prerelease PR Rob.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MpkPqwLSPuM
(AN ODE TO GMAX) OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GMAX! How I sometimes want to hug and kiss it. And other times want to smash, berate, and delete it. Gmax how I love and loathe thee. The crashes the errors the reinstalls. Gmax you are the whomb of my aircraft design. Oh Gmax my designing creating temptress. It must be love for you have taken my heartdrive. By Greg Ebnit
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Sep 15
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Holy cow
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Sep 15
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Nice job with the horse, Greg! It looks especially good from the rider's perspective . . .
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Sep 15
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Anywho, I got the center gear to do its thing, the "slow" set of both props, ailerons, elevator.
but now i need to change out tires for the left and right, they are transparent (new ones) and the left engine is transparent (merge newer version that i fixed)
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Sep 15
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well after near eight hours work, im no where near where i would have like to be
the rudder, tires and prop spin at oblique angles still (i know affect pivot point) but i think im half retarded, or i hit my gmax vmax..... and the left and right gear do not move
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Sep 16
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AHHHHH WHAT DOES IT MEAN
sorry bout that
I got all the props and the tires to spin in the right directions and the rudders are fixed
but the to rear gear still dont move (i think its that error)
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Sep 16
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Yep that is the most annoying error I get it alot when the transform gets out of wack.
Just select the effected part and remove the animation. Then go to the hiearchy tab and reset the transform scale. Then reanimate. (see pic)
Model looks great!
(AN ODE TO GMAX) OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GMAX! How I sometimes want to hug and kiss it. And other times want to smash, berate, and delete it. Gmax how I love and loathe thee. The crashes the errors the reinstalls. Gmax you are the whomb of my aircraft design. Oh Gmax my designing creating temptress. It must be love for you have taken my heartdrive. By Greg Ebnit
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Sep 16
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YOU ARE NOW ME RE-NEW FAVORITE PERSON AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but what about the gear doors, what what what
dont see any key animations for them
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Sep 17
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Animate gear doors as part of the l_gear/r_gear/c_gear animations. Just make them the beginning of the animation movement (say 0-15 frames) and THEN animate the gear (15-100 frames).
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Sep 20
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Locke, you................................ are my new friend i just made the single door and split it, now im working on animating both
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What do I do you ask? I struggle! Then destroy! Then try to put back together what I just broke on accident.....&&&&&&&&&& The GMax effect
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Sep 22
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, 2007 at 2:24pm
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got another problem, i lost my vertex dots. I updated my video drivers (deleted my audio driver on accident) and now my vertex dots are gone (the little blue dots)
What do I do you ask? I struggle! Then destroy! Then try to put back together what I just broke on accident.....&&&&&&&&&& The GMax effect
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Sep 25
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Hey Falcon. what I would suggest is either go to the views tab in Gmax and turn on the vertex tics or even better.(see pic) Go to your files directory in windows take your important folders out of Gmax the ones you have your scenes images plugins and whatever other saved data in. Then uninstall Gmax and delete the Gmax folder. Then reinstall gmax with a fresh install reset all your preferences close GMax. Go to the file directory delete the Gmax folders you are goin to replace with the folders you pulled out then copy paste those folders back into the Gmax Directory. They will automaticaly be arranged where they should be as long as the names are correct. Just be sure to have all your important folders saved somewhere.
Every ounce in a while Gmax goofs up and this is ths way I reinstall it. I have the Gmax 1.2 run file saved to my computer so all I have to do is uninstall then reinstall and you dont have to mess around with getting a new admission code.
(AN ODE TO GMAX) OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GMAX! How I sometimes want to hug and kiss it. And other times want to smash, berate, and delete it. Gmax how I love and loathe thee. The crashes the errors the reinstalls. Gmax you are the whomb of my aircraft design. Oh Gmax my designing creating temptress. It must be love for you have taken my heartdrive. By Greg Ebnit
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Sep 25
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Its a no go, might have to re install gmax, see if it does something fun, or if i need to take my computer to a tech to have the driver updated un-updated
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Sep 26
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Falcon500 wrote
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, 2007 at 9:44pm:
Its a no go, might have to re install gmax, see if it does something fun, or if i need to take my computer to a tech to have the driver updated un-updated
Roll-back your drivers. Simple. It's part of Windows anyway . . . right?
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