Propeller animation broken in all Pilatus PC-6

[Eddrik84]

The propeller animation is broken on all the Pilatus PC-6 aircraft, both in 2D and VR. its just a static mesh.

[Pieter2427]

Can confirm. This is the static mesh shown.

[mm212hd130]

same here yeah

[CooganBear]

Same here.

[mappamundi]

They’ve broken the blur mesh somehow. A quick and dirty fix while awaiting the final version of SU8 is to make the model use only the slow blur mesh.
Open pc6.xml in
…\Official\OneStore\microsoft-aircraft-pilatus-pc6\SimObjects\Airplanes\Microsoft_Pilatus_PC6_Gauge_Wheels\model (or equivalent for Steam)
and find these lines:

	<Component ID="ENGINE">
		<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_ENGINE_Propeller_Template">
			<ID>1</ID>
			<MIN_RPM_FOR_SLOW>143</MIN_RPM_FOR_SLOW>
			<MIN_RPM_FOR_BLUR>287.5</MIN_RPM_FOR_BLUR>

Then just bump the min rpm value to a ridiculously high value eg:
<MIN_RPM_FOR_BLUR>1000287.5</MIN_RPM_FOR_BLUR>

Not perfect but better than a static mesh. Need to be done for all the aircraft variants you use.

[HethrMasn]

Thanks for the workaround. This topic has been tagged with bug-logged so maybe it will be fixed soon since I assume it’s an easy/quick thing for the devs to fix?

[Syrone]

The bug is still persistent after SU8

[HethrMasn]

I would be surprised if it is fixed before SU9, but maybe a fix will slip in for the next World Update.

[Sonicviz]

This is not a good look (literally or figuratively), especially for such an iconic plane. It’s incredibly amateurish.

[mikerolowski]

Just when I was looking forward to flying a ‘complete’ PC-6 after they’d fixed the previous problems I’m leaving it alone once again because of the other immersion-breaking bugs they’ve inexplicably introduced (I don’t know what they were trying to do with the prop animation - it worked fine before ) while fixing the older ones… It would be funny if it weren’t the product of a multi-billion dollar company Oh well, at least the bug is ‘logged;’ I guess I can wait until the next World Update or SU9

[HethrMasn]

@mappamundi

Open pc6.xml

I also found a typo in “SIDE_BLUE” but fixing it didn’t help.

[FusionHorse151]

confirming the prop animation is broken - past low RPM the blade spin freezes but the prop hub is rotating

[HethrMasn]

It seems somewhat better in SU9 beta. What do you guys think? I didn’t see it mentioned in the release notes.

[HethrMasn]

I flew the garmin model and it was partially fixed. Still not a very good animation, looks cheezy, but not static anymore at least.

[Sonicviz]

Just tested, still pretty bad even if not static. It’s like they can’t be bothered.

[crisk73]

Still broken in SU9? Animation is terrible.
Filed a bug rep to zendesk, just to add one more.