FSX SDK Installation

[Robert Benning]

Hi @ All

I´m actually working on a fsx version of my bk117 and
I tried to install the fsx sdk. In the tutorial they said,
that i have to copy the files from the folder 3DSM7 into the
gmax plugins folder. The files are: FSModelExp.dle ; FSX Animations.ms and so on. After doing this and starting gmax, gmax said that these files could not be initialized! The exact
Error report is:

DLL <C:\gmax\PlugIns\FSModelEXP.dle> failed to initialize

The same report is given on the other files!

So, Please help! Why does gmax not initialize these files?

Thanx so far

best regards

Robert Benning

[FelixFFDS]

No.1 Make sure you install the SDK and updates to match the version of FS that you have. If you have updated to FS-X Acceleration, install the SDK update from the ACceleration Disk (unless you've already updated to FS-X SP2, and SDK SP-2, then no need to re-install the Acceleration SDK update.)

To get the gamepack into gmax, COPY the folder FSX_GmaxGamepack (installed by the SDK to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Modeling SDK) to your c:\gamx\gamepacks folder, so you'll end up with

C:\gmax\gamepacks\FSX_GmaxGamePack

and all the neat folders, etc. to happily drive yourself nuts with gmax.

[arno]

And don't forget to start GMax with the FSX shortcut found in the gamepack after that. Then it should work like a charm...

[Robert Benning]

Thanx Guys!

everything works fine!