Solar Panel Animations

[jcanatenine]

My panels aren't working right. When I extend panels they play the extending and retracting animation, and don't seem to actually leave the Status: Retracted.

See pic:

http://imgur.com/rjC74u1.jpg

In my model the animation is 600 frames, 0-299 extending and 300-600 retracting. I tried this with one animation because the config I was copying only had one animationname value (a squad animated PV part).

The animation: (FBX)

http://imgur.com/xra87Ej.png

part.cfg module:

http://imgur.com/vM34Cjp.png

[jcanatenine]

Solved the problems.

What I learned:

Apparently the game uses one animation for both extending and retracting the part. It just reverses the animation when stowing the panels.

I changed the animation to just the first 300 keyframes (deployment or panels)

To get sun tracking to work I added an empty GameObject in Unity, that was the parent of all the parts models. I had to rotate the new pivot's Y axis to match the desired tracking axis.

Set raycastTransformName and pivotName to the empty GameObject pivot.