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tsgucci asked GuiHuy commented

Simple scenery animation

Hey Guys!


I'm trying to create a very simple rotating radar animation with 3DS Max. In 3DS the animation works fine but in MSFS the radar does not rotate.


Most probably my workflow is wrong.

1. I have created a "Dummy", animated it. Attached the object to it. Assigned an animation group. Exported it with babylon. Edited the xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ModelInfo version="1.1" guid="{3c4e2e09-369a-486a-a0d1-e71015e4c081}">
<Animation name="NagyRadarAnim" guid="d78fb95b-eafd-48f2-9efb-0f4867259215" type="Standard" typeParams="AutoPlay"/>
</ModelInfo>


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The static objects appears. Rebuilded the project, restarted MSFS, reloaded the project and still it does not move.

Any idea what is the problem?


Thanks a lot!

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GuiHuy avatar image GuiHuy commented ·

I assume that You have defined that as a simobject and not as a scenery object, correct? My animations - user initiated - are not running as scenery object but only as simobjects.

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virtuali answered FlyingRaccoon commented

The attribute is called "TypeParam", not "TypeParams"

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FlyingRaccoon avatar image FlyingRaccoon ♦♦ commented ·

Congrats virtuali,

You are our first user to provide an answer that has been accepted on this new Q&A platform.

We hope it is the first one of a long series. :)

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Sylvain

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tsgucci avatar image tsgucci commented ·

Thanks a lot! Indeed this was the problem :D

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tsgucci answered GuiHuy commented

Additional question, what is the frame per second for animations? I cannot find it in the SDK. The old FSX was running with 18 frames per sec, but I suppose this is now higher.

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GuiHuy avatar image GuiHuy commented ·

When I developed my animation with blender, the framerate was displayed as beeing 25 frames per second. I haven't done any measurements but I guess it should be that.

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