Fans rotation shader direction

Version: SU3

Frequency: Consistently

Severity: HIGH

Context: Community, in flight

Bug description:

With the new shader material for propellers, using it for TurboFans we cannot set the direction the fan should turn to.

Not all turbofans rotate on the same direction, some are counter clock wise others clock wise.

I am unable to set my engines rotation accordingly to the irl engines and their 3D fans configuration.

This video shows how they rotate in real life:

I need to set mines to rotate like this, but i am unable.

Most embraer engines are like this btw, so your upcoming preator 600 might require same arrangement.

Best,
Raul

Hello @SimbolFSReborn

Rotation is determined by the Y axis direction (in 3DS Max).
Change you fan node local orientation and you should be able to revert the rotation.

We will mention this more explicitly in this page:

Regards,
Sylvain

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Brilliant,

I confirm this fixed the issue. Many thanks.

R.

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Hello everyone,

Relevant information was added in SDK 1.5.3 documentation

Regards,
Sylvain

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