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Manual documentation for partial turntables
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@@ -208,6 +208,18 @@ TrackShape block within the tsection.dat file. You only have to insert the diame
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the turntable and the degree step. Of course you have to take only the lines up to the
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one preceding the one with degrees = 180.
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Also turntables which may rotate less than 360 degrees can be implemented, like the one in
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the picture here below:
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.. image:: images/features-partial-turntable.png
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In this case following line has to be added at the end of the ``Turntable()`` block
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in file ``turntables.dat`` for a turntable that can rotate only between 0 and 40 degrees::
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MaxAngle ( 40 )
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Angles increase clockwise.
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Already many existing turntables have been successfully animated and many new other
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have been created. More can be read
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`in this forum thread <http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php?/topic/28591-operational-turntable/>`_ .
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