Wind turbines - animation doesn't work

[fransblok]

I am trying to make an animation of wind turbines at sea. I've created a forest with the blades of a turbine as custom object. The blades are an object imported from Autocad.

I've animated the blades to rotate 360 degrees. In the animation rollout I've checked "follow geometry"; I've also unchecked "animate only at render time."

But the blades in the forest won't move.

Any ideas what could be the reason?

thanks in advance

[Michal Karmazín]

Hi,

"I've animated the blades to rotate 360 degrees."

Not sure, how the animation is done, but I would suggest you to apply to your Custom Object the XForm modifier and animate that (instead of animating Position/Rotation/Scale controller of the Custom Object as Forest takes control over it during scattering calculation).

Hope that helps.

Best regards,

[fransblok]

That certainly helps! I've applied the X-form modifier en now my turbines are rotating. Thanks!