Control Surface Orientation

[Freedom]

I've been working on some parts for a mod I'm making, and I'm having trouble with my control surface part. The part is similar to the delta-deluxe winglet in that it has a built-in control surface, which I attempted to do by having the control surface as a separate mesh which I assigned the module to. It is mostly working, but it rotates around the wrong axis. I tried re-orienting it in Unity, and it didn't change, and I tried re-doing the axes in blender but it didn't carry over into Unity. How can I make the control surface rotate about the correct axis?

 

[wasml]

Second post in this thread has a picture Control surfaces? that I found helpful.

[Shadowmage]

Control surface transform rotates around its PARENT's X-axis (and appears to ignore its own rotation).

Create an empty at the postiion of where your flap should rotate.  Rotate that empty so that x+ points along the hinge of the flap.  Reparent your flap to this empty transform.  The trasformName in your config file should be the name of the flap - NOT the name of the empty.

Recently ran into this myself while prototyping some parts and it took a few days to figure out what was going on.

[Kartoffelkuchen]

Can confirm it rotates around X axis. The angle you defined in the cfg how much the control surface can extend out is added to the the current X orientation, so you'll maybe need to add another empty and set the control surface as a child of it in order to rotate properly. What Shadowmage said.

[Freedom]

  On 1/15/2016 at 3:35 PM, Shadowmage said:

The trasformName in your config file should be the name of the flap - NOT the name of the empty.

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Thanks, that was it! I probably wouldn't figured that out.