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Old 15th January 2019, 11:34 AM   #1
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Default How to use a Show?

Hi there, for years now I haven't been able to find out how to use a show. Using a hide works perfectly fine and does exactly what one would expect form it. but when i create an animation group with an object inside and I add a show in the group, the object will never disappear to later be shown on the specified values. So! Is there something else I have to do to make a show work?

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Old 17th January 2019, 06:21 AM   #2
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Anyone? I have to write something to make this at least 10 characters
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Old 6th April 2019, 04:00 PM   #3
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Old 27th April 2022, 11:13 AM   #4
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And years later ... here we go:

First you need to hide the objects using a "hide", and then use the "show" to show them in certain situations.
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Old 27th April 2022, 12:21 PM   #5
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Thank you for sharing the solution!
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Old 23rd February 2024, 06:04 PM   #6
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Default Re: How to use a Show?

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Hi there, for years now I haven't been able to find out how to use a show. Using a hide works perfectly fine and does exactly what one would expect form it. but when i create an animation group with an object inside and I add a show in the group, the object will never disappear to later be shown on the specified values. So! Is there something else I have to do to make a show work?

Thank you
you have to create 2x entries for the show, other than 1 entry for the hide:
hide 0-0.9
show 0.9-1

the logic may not necessarily pop in one's face and worth taking a note of it into your booklet. it's got to do with the dataref activation context.
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Old 23rd February 2024, 06:15 PM   #7
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Yeah I have since figured it out. The objects needs to first be hidden by a hide, to then be shown by a show. So for examplle I could hide something in values from -10 to 10, and then show it if the datarf value is between 3.5 and 4.5.
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Old 23rd February 2024, 06:34 PM   #8
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Yeah I have since figured it out. The objects needs to first be hidden by a hide, to then be shown by a show. So for examplle I could hide something in values from -10 to 10, and then show it if the datarf value is between 3.5 and 4.5.
what brings us to a new topic and that how to deal with values. i have used hide/show for objects that remain in the respective appearance for as long as you don't recall the command. but: what if you want to show respectively hide something that undergoes a value change constantly. example is animations, like a rotor, or other.

let's look at a rotor. obviously a revolution is 360. So if want it to show up half its way round, i'd use 0, 180 hide, 180,360 show. would you agree? i could segment down to hide 0,10 show 10,20. That would get me blades that show every 10 degrees which is 36 times per revolution. is that correct?

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Old 23rd February 2024, 08:21 PM   #9
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Personally I would:
- Hide : 0 - 360
- Show 9-10
- Show 19-20
- Show 29-30

and so on

But I've never had to animate propellers. I would check how the default aircraft do it.
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Old 24th February 2024, 04:46 AM   #10
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Personally I would:
- Hide : 0 - 360
- Show 9-10
- Show 19-20
- Show 29-30

and so on

But I've never had to animate propellers. I would check how the default aircraft do it.
got you, nice solution.
propeller was just an example, basically i wanted to understand the concept.
thank you for your input.
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