partstates.deactivated doesnt work?

[Tuareg]

hi

i would have a quick question if somebody would know the answer i would be very glad.

i have an animated engine where i want to run the animation only as long as the engine is running. while its idle the partstates.active is false, but if once i activate it it runs forever, even if it runs out of fuel or i shutdown the engine. i check the this.part.State == PartStates.ACTIVE and after once activating the engine it always true...

from wiki: "Engines are IDLE before they are fired, ACTIVE while firing, and DEACTIVATED after running

//out of fuel."

[Tuareg]

anybody has any idea?

[philotical]

I don't know about partstates - but part.deactivated was imo deprecated since a while..

the info text said "use part.enabled instead"..

hope that helps..

[Tuareg]

its not part.deactivated but partstate.deactivated and its not deprecated.

could anybody tell how to check if an engine has an active thrust or not? /not throttle before somebody say it/

thanks a lot

[Diazo]

Do you want active thrust, as in producing thrust? Or activated that when the main throttle changes, the engine responds?

If you want the "engine responds to throttle", the bool ModuleEngines.getIgnitionState is what you are looking for.

If you want "engine actually producing thrust", I think bool ModuleEngines.isOperational is what you want, but that needs testing.

Hope that helps,

D.

[Tuareg]

Do you want active thrust, as in producing thrust? Or activated that when the main throttle changes, the engine responds?

If you want the "engine responds to throttle", the bool ModuleEngines.getIgnitionState is what you are looking for.

If you want "engine actually producing thrust", I think bool ModuleEngines.isOperational is what you want, but that needs testing.

Hope that helps,

D.

i was in need of both, these are the perfect ones.

thanks-a-lot