On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was browsing the flightgear wiki pages on doing model animations.
> Everything is written from the perspective of a single model with named
> parts and the animations refer to the part names.
> What I have here is two version of the same model as separate 3ds files. I
> realize it's a crude hack, but I'm short on time. What I would like to do
> is create an animation that selects one entire model or the other depending
> on the state of a property. I assumed it would be easy to do so I left it
> to the last minute ... I've probably done it in the past, but now I can't
> find any documentation or examples ... is this possible to do?
> Thanks,
>
> Curt.
Curt,
One way to do this, set up the primary model XML file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PropertyList>
<path>mymodel.ac</path>
<model>
<name>Model1</name>
<path>Aircraft/myplane/Models/model_1.xml</path>
</model>
<model>
<name>Model2</name>
<path>Aircraft/myplane/Models/model_2.xml</path>
</model>
<animation>
<type>select</type>
<object-name>Model1</object-name>
<condition>
...
</condition>
</animation>
<animation>
<type>select</type>
<object-name>Model2</object-name>
<condition>
...
</condition>
</animation>
</PropertyList>
So you import the primary model 'mymodel.ac (or whatever) in the path
(this could be a null model), and specify two submodel imports and two
selects that determine when the submodels appear.
Then each submodel XML file will reference its model:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PropertyList>
<path>model_1.ac</path>
</PropertyList>
Hope this helps,
-Gary aka Buckaroo
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