Hey, all
I have a space-based carrier vehicle. It has four vaguely-cylindrical 'rockets' parented to it. The engines' axes are centered on and placed at the point where they'd work best for the craft itself. Everything looks fine, but as soon as I try to rotate any engine (singly or all as a group) forward--single axis rotation--the 'cylinder' starts squashing. It squashes to the side, although it remains parented to the ship. I didn't put any limits on it, and I didn't set up any morph targets for it. My goal is to set up 'controls' so I can just assign open/shut/down/back actions to the various pieces-parts, but I need to get this engine squishing thing fixed.
Looked through numerous forume posts to see if anyone else was having this problem; no luck there.
Anyone maybe have a notion as to why this is happening? Did I make a mistake in parenting the engine objects to the ship object? Other things that I've parented to the main ship, like the three-part exit ramp, rotate on their limited axes just fine.
Any suggestions as to what I did wrong, or what I could do to make this work right, would be appreciated. (Trying to set it up for a short video using it. Can't exit the launch bay if the engines are squished sideways. 😞 )
Thanks!
Davey
