Solar Panel Animation Question

[Angelo Kerman]

Hi all:

I've been beating my head on creating a solar panel and finally get it to point towards the sun. The problem is that when I add the part to a ship in the VAB, it automatically deploys.

Here is my config file for the deployable solar panel:

MODULE

{

name = ModuleDeployableSolarPanel

animationName = Deploy

pivotName = sunPivot

IsBreakable = true

raycastTransformName = suncatcher

runOnce = true

resourceName = ElectricCharge

resourceName = ElectricCharge

chargeRate = 18

powerCurve

{

key = 206000000000 0 0 0

key = 13599840256 1 0 0

key = 68773560320 0.5 0 0

key = 0 10 0 0

}

}

To see what I mean:

The game automatically plays the "Deploy" animation and leaves the panel fully open.

To see if there was an animation issue, I replaced ModuleDeployableSolarPanel with ModuleAnimationGeneric. When I do that, the panel starts folded as I expect. Here is what I mean:

You can see that it works just fine with ModuleAnimateGeneric.

Any ideas about what is going on? Why would ModuleDeployableSolarPanel play the animation and keep the panel fully open, while ModuleAnimateGeneric has no issues deploying or folding the part? Is there a setting in Unity that I'm missing?

Thanks for the help!

[Angelo Kerman]

Yay! Figured it out. Have to go to the mesh's animation component and uncheck Play Automatically.

[NecroBones]

Yay! Figured it out. Have to go to the mesh's animation component and uncheck Play Automatically.

Great! Glad it was an easy fix.