Aircraft Animation Problem

[amengol]

Hi guys,

I'm sure this might be a very basic problem, but anyways...

I'm newbie with aircraft animation, although quite experienced with scenery ones. I'm trying to get a very basic rudder animation to work in P3Dv3.

The model:
A dummy with the model name (model_name);
Another dummy for the LOD (model_name_LOD_400) Underneath it;
Underneath it there are two simple box and a tube:
Box01 represents the fuselage;
Box02 represents the rudder (stores rudder_percent_key animation);
Tube01 to store an ambient animation;

The animation:
The rudder is animated from full left to full right with 5 keys (0, 25, 50, 75, 100) using linear controllers. I added to it rudder_percent_key animation following the same old Animation Manager tool procedures;
The tube is animated up and down using same procedure as before, but with ambient animation.

All things seems to be right to export (proper GUID, proper name, proper LOD conventions). Verify tool shows no problem at all "your model is perfect"!

Exported to x and xanim files without any problem. Also no error or warning was generated from the XtoMDL tool. Needless to say that I user /XANIM option.

Then I took the MDL and tested it over the Carenado stock model. (backed up the original model and renamed my model to BonanzaII.MDL).

Fired up P3D and tested the model. It shows right, but no rudder response (it is full deflected to the left - frame 0). The ambient animation is working fine though.

Modeldef.xml is ok and in the right folder to compile.

What am I doing wrong here?

[amengol]

As a side note, I have also tried to use the old DC3 from FSX sdk with the same problem: no animations inside P3D (or FSX).

Ah, and I'm using 3DS Max 2015.

[amengol]

Any help here would be much appreciated!

[Max Perry]

Are you using the /DICT:"path to modeldef.xml" parameter in your xtomdl script?

[amengol]

Are you using the /DICT:"path to modeldef.xml" parameter in your xtomdl script?

Hi Max,

Well, this really made the trick. Thank you so much for the help.

Jorge.