Hi folks, I am having some issues with a current project and could do with some assistance.
The problem lies with the animation of the landing gear 'scissors' in FSX (+Accel) as can be seen in these shots...
For some reason the scissors are 'passing through' each other rather than moving the way they were set up in GMAX.
I have redone the animation in GMAX at least three times and it is correct there (i.e. both parts of the scissors remain connected at the mid point joint with key frames every 10 frames) and I have spent several hours messing with contact point data especially in the areas of compression ratio and damping ratio with no luck. The main gear scissors are the worst case although the nose gear scissors also show this effect to a smaller degree but do not pass through each other and so the effect is less noticeable.
I am starting to think I may need to add some sort of constraint to the animation in GMAX to 'force' the lower scissors to stay connected to the upper scissors/joint pin but I have no clue how to do this nor which type of constraint to apply.
Has anyone seen behaviour like this before and can anyone offer suggestions on how I might fix it.
Thanks for looking.
The problem lies with the animation of the landing gear 'scissors' in FSX (+Accel) as can be seen in these shots...
For some reason the scissors are 'passing through' each other rather than moving the way they were set up in GMAX.
I have redone the animation in GMAX at least three times and it is correct there (i.e. both parts of the scissors remain connected at the mid point joint with key frames every 10 frames) and I have spent several hours messing with contact point data especially in the areas of compression ratio and damping ratio with no luck. The main gear scissors are the worst case although the nose gear scissors also show this effect to a smaller degree but do not pass through each other and so the effect is less noticeable.
I am starting to think I may need to add some sort of constraint to the animation in GMAX to 'force' the lower scissors to stay connected to the upper scissors/joint pin but I have no clue how to do this nor which type of constraint to apply.
Has anyone seen behaviour like this before and can anyone offer suggestions on how I might fix it.
Thanks for looking.