Dave Culp wrote: >>Can you be a bit more specific? What do you mean by "apply an offset equal >>to -1 times the starting value"? What is it exactly that you want to do? > > > I want to animate an object, using the scale animation. Say I have a bit of > contrail which appears behind the user aircraft. I want that contrail model > to grow to about 2 or 3 times its starting size within 8 seconds. I also > want it to fade to transparent within 8 seconds, but that's another issue. > To do this I need a property that counts to 8 seconds.
Perhaps you could save the value sim/time/elapsed-sec when the submodel is created and then subtract that from the current sim/time/elapsed-sec whenever you wanted to know the age of that particular submodel. Then a little nasal to create another prop that the scale animation is based on. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
