Gear animation (plane)

[sarge (sgs) 9]

Hi all. Do you know, how i can manualy run animation of plane gear? My idea is simulate landing crash with the break one wheel.

Example: in Skyrider addon to operation flashpoint I found this animate ["RightWheel", 0]. But I cannot found enything like this in ArmA 2 (SU 25)

[[aps]gnat 28]

Cant open any model.cfg for it but it might be like the Su34;

Front gear; predni kolo

Left gear; levy kolo

Right gear; pravy kolo

[sarge (sgs) 9]

Gnat;1547827']Cant open any model.cfg for it but it might be like the Su34;

Front gear; predni kolo

Left gear; levy kolo

Right gear; pravy kolo

I try this. I create tigger radio alpha' date=' "in activation" I try put this:

su (name su 34 plane)

su animate ["right_gear", 0']

su animate ["right gear", 0]

su animate ["pravy kolo", 0]

su animate ["pravy_kolo", 0]

But it don´t work. Anything else or I do something wrong?

[[frl]myke 14]

Funny enough that i do the same. It needs several steps. First in model cfg:

		class Fold_Gear_F {
			type="rotation";
			memory=1;
			sourceAddress="clamp";
			source="user";
			animperiod=3.5;
			selection="fold_gear_F";
			axis="axis_fold_gear_F";
			minValue=0;
			maxValue=0.700000;
			angle0=0;
			angle1="rad -100";
		};

Just copy/pasted a single part, make sure all gear-related anims are changed the same way.

Changes:

- source is no longer attached to "gear" but "user"

- new config entry animPeriod=3.5;

I found out that animPeriod is not absolute but as multiplier together with maxValue. For real animationTime just do animPeriod * maxValue.

Then in the config.cpp:

	class animationsources {
		class Fold_Gear_F {
			source="user";
			animPeriod=3.5;
			initPhase=0;
		};
              };

Also here for each anim that is related to gear animation. As example i've just copied one.

You need also to remove the default "Gear up/down" action entry in the vehicles config:

gearRetracting  = 0;

Then a little function to animate the gear (finally):

GEAR = {
private ["_anims", "_i"];
_i = abs ((_this animationPhase "Fold_Gear_F") - 1);
_anims = ["Fold_Gear_F", "Fold_Gear_R", "Fold_Gear_L", "Gear_Door_F", "Gear_Door_R", "Gear_Door_L"];
{_this animate [_x, _i]} foreach _anims;
};

Please note that this code work for both ways, gear up and down.

And last but not least, adding custom actions to the plane:

	class UserActions {
		class lowerGear {
			displayName ="$STR_ACTION_LOWERGEAR";
			displayNameDefault = "";
			position = "pilotcontrol";
			radius = 15;
			condition = "this animationPhase 'Fold_Gear_F' > 0.9";
			statement = "this spawn GEAR";
			onlyforplayer = 1;
		};
		class RaiseGear {
			displayName ="$STR_ACTION_RAISEGEAR";
			displayNameDefault = "";
			position = "pilotcontrol";
			radius = 15;
			condition = "(getposATL this select 2) > 2 and this animationPhase 'Fold_Gear_F' < 0.1";
			statement = "this spawn GEAR";
			onlyforplayer = 1;
		};
	};

This is tested and works.

You'll not be able to retract gear while on ground.

With this, you have a gear that can be animated independently. You may extent script to simulate failure depending on your own definitions. This is up to you, here you got a start at least.

[sarge (sgs) 9]

It´s look well. But, I want this only for animation in intro. It´s still necessary create config and more theese things or exist some more easily solution?