posted 12-19- 09:24 AM               

The problem:

Run SMD, import model into ac3d.

Import new lod's to replace old model parts

export OL with new name....oldnameXX etc.

run OLC and build new SM

o.k. Fine so far!

Run in game....DOF's now completely screwed. Worst affected are the ailerons. Props seem o.k. most of the time. Gun turrets also suffer. Not only are the DOF's now moved, but something odd is happening to the co-ordinates too. If you create a new DOF, and copy in the old values, it is still wrong! The only cure is to completely re-do the DOF from scratch. Move it into place, test...etc. etc. etc.

Now, if the model was radically different, I would expect this, but in my case, THE PARTS AFFECTED HAVE NOT BEEN CHANGED.

Question:

Am I doing something I shouldn't?

If I build a plane this way, is it no-longer compatible with OPS?

If so, do we have to get all the properties etc. done first and can then never change stuff in OPS?

Without these problems, the B17 update would be ready now! I kid you not. I have had to re-do so much every time, and have had to postpone a lot of stuff I wanted to work into it, just to avoid having to re-do stuff all over again, I will do it, just not right now. Cut'n'paste in OPS loses the positioning of the part, which means large amounts ofl ining up. I hoped OL would get around this, but it makes more work than it saves right now.

If there is a simple cure, I need to know!

posted 12-19- 09:34 AM               

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posted 12-19- 11:34 AM               

You posted not 10 minutes after me, and I think we are talking the same language on this one!

If there is a fix, great.

If not, then cutting OPS out of the equation seems to make sense. The properties can be worked on from the OL file, just not as easy to 'see'

posted 12-19- 12:07 PM               

The only way I've successfully DOF'd in OPS is by moveing both the parent object and the children that need to be DOF'd to their origins position the DOF then move it back to where the parent belongs. You rotate the parent at all after this and the DOF gets screwed again and your back to square one.

It's a bitch but possible.

posted 12-19- 12:47 PM               

And gun allignment.

posted 12-19- 03:40 PM               

wrecking the DOF's makes OL real pain. It will work fine so long as the parts don't include too many DOF's. But what really confuses me is that it isn't all of them! Never had a problem with dials, no bother with props, landing gear is usually o.k.
Ailerons, rudders and elevators..no chance!

I think it must be to do with the model co-ords. If the part is centred relative to itself, and moved in OPS, then BOOM. If it is centred relative to the model origin..fine.

posted 12-19- 07:18 PM               

Looks like OPS isn't the problem!