plane icon Welcome to Microsoft Flight Simulator’s SDK Q&A Platform!

You have questions regarding the SDK? DevMode Tools? SimConnect? You would like to submit an idea for future improvements, seek help or exchange knowledge? You’re in the right place.


Please take a moment to read the platform’s guidelines before you get started!


question

Barthandelus382 avatar image
Barthandelus382 asked Barthandelus382 commented

Animated materials not exporting from 3ds Max

Hello,

Since a tutorial on animated materials was uploaded on the SDK documentation with the release of SU8, I'm trying unsuccessfully to animate the base color of a standard material on a simple box (simple color changing as a test). I already know how to animate an object transformation so I think I'm not stuck with standard mistakes (animations keys, animation tag in the model's xml file, etc...)

When I export my animated model, the babylon exporter recognize the material animation called "Body_Test" (applied on a material called "Body_metal") but do not export it, please see the verbose of the exporter below.

And of course nothing happens when I export the model into MSFS, I have a simple box with its base color and no material animation.

Screenshot from the Babylon exporter in 3ds Max :

babylonexporteranimation.png


I would be very glad to receive help, I think this functionnality of animating materials is very interesting and I would like to master it.

Respectfully,

Barthandelus382

animationmaterials3dsmax
babylonexporteranimation.png (34.0 KiB)
10 |10000
Toggle Comment visibility. Current Visibility: Viewable by all users

Up to 5 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 4.8 MiB each and 23.8 MiB total.

1 Answer

·
Simbol avatar image
Simbol answered Barthandelus382 commented

If you are exporting this for a Glass.. it will be ignored.. as per SDK information, only standard materials are supported for material animation.

Which is a shame, I was looking forward to apply it to other types of materials.

Regards,
Simbol

3 comments
10 |10000
Toggle Comment visibility. Current Visibility: Viewable by all users

Up to 5 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 4.8 MiB each and 23.8 MiB total.

Barthandelus382 avatar image Barthandelus382 ·

Yes, the SDK documentation was clear about this, and so I carefully only use Standard type material for this experiment. So I do not really know where the problem comes from.

Do you succeed in animating materials ?

0 Likes 0 ·
Simbol avatar image Simbol Barthandelus382 ·
You need to attach a NODE (a part) to it, the animated material requires a node for the babylon group like any other animation.
1 Like 1 ·
Barthandelus382 avatar image Barthandelus382 Simbol ·

Thank you for your reply,

I already attached a material node to the babylon animation as you can see in the provided screenshot below (material node: "Body_metal" ; animation: "BodyTest")

BabylonAnimation.png

Do you mean that I should also attach a model node to this animation, the node of the 3d model of the box to which the material is applied ?

I already tried this and I obtained this result in the babylon exporter:

BabylonExporterAnimation2.png

So if I add the model Box001 to the Animation groups panel in the Animation Nodes panel it seems that I am forced to add animation keys to this 3d model, this is where I do not understand because I only whish to animate material and not 3d model (no translation, rotation, etc...)

I do not know if my method is right or if I explain well, thank you for your time.


Regards,

Barthandelus

0 Likes 0 ·
babylonanimation.png (23.5 KiB)
babylonexporteranimation2.png (18.7 KiB)

Write an Answer

Hint: Notify or tag a user in this post by typing @username.

Up to 5 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 19.1 MiB each and 23.8 MiB total.