Cars How to set a parent for displays?

[Navigator]

Hi guys,

Trying to keep busy, I'm working on a private mod.
You know how it is: X and Y are good in mod 1, Z is good in mod 3 and so I merge them and make my own physics as thats the field I know. Been doing that for almost 15 years now, then with rF(2) and the last year in AC.

Now I would love to have a different steering wheel and it is out there, there are more even, but I have my eyes set on an add-on for the RSS cars.
This thing works nicely on those, but on my mod: there are no digits (and other stuff) in the display.

So, there is a tutorial in the AC folder, there is a proper knowledge base with links all over the internet and I read......and read.....and then some!
Turns out, one has to "set a parent" as far as I understand.

Lots of the things I've read, go from the point you are a fulltime modder and you do everything, from sounds to making 3D models to making physics, own expensive programs to do all of this and so on.
Setting a parent, how, when, and where, is not really described: "they" take it you already know that.
I don't.

So I have a wheel, turned it in several editors (3dsimed and the one in the AC folder) and tried to find a parent: none.
I was able to get some names and I noted THEM in the "digital instruments" ini, tried all I could find: none worked.

I'm busy with this for to long now, it has become an obsession.......I would love to get it sorted so I can move on; would someone please give me a few pointers?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Stereo]

It's a 3dsmax/blender term, describing the tree structure of the model.

Here "STEER_HR" is the parent, "Circle.001" is the child. So you use the 'make parent' tool in Blender to put it in this spot in the tree, with the child as a selected object and the parent as the active object. I don't know how this is done in 3dsmax, and it definitely can't be done in kseditor.

 

[Navigator]

Thank you very much for your reply!
It's very hard to get proper info on this.

Well, I have to re-learn Blender then Never was any good with it, but I think I should be able to do this when I read the Blender stuff again.

But writing this, all of the sudden, my train of thought is this: the wheel does work in the car where it is supposed to go and takes over the dash: it should have that parent in there already then, right?
When I look into the "digital instruments" .ini from that car: it says "Parent = Display_1" and on mine, it says "Digital_Display".
I did try to change them out, thinking it should work but it doesn't.

Anyway, going to look for a plugin and fire up Blender, thanks!!