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FSX Steam and SDK Tools (Visualfxtool, etc...)

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The SDK tools used inside FSX, namely

Visualfxtool.dll
Object_Placement.dll
Traffictoolbox.dll

won't work in FSX:Steam when you run them from the FSX:Acceleration/SP2 SDK. They will not authenticate and subsequently not run. If forced to authenticate by setting their [Trusted] entries in the fsx.cfg to "...[GUID]=2", it will crash the simulator upon startup.

FSXSE's (otherwise incomplete) SDK however supplies updated versions of these files, so copy them from there into their respective locations in the FSXA/SP2 SDK (which we all still use for FSXSE, right?) and overwrite the old versions.
The tools will then run inside of FSXSE again.

Just a small heads-up.
Made for a bit of an agonizing headscratcher for me until I found this out.
 
Why not just edit Steam Edition's dll.xml (in %appdata%\Microsoft\FSX-SE) to reference the files included with Steam Edition? That way you'll still be able to use the original SDK tools with SP2 and Acceleration.

Edit: Like so:

Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">
  <Descr>Launch</Descr>
  <Filename>dll.xml</Filename>
  <Disabled>False</Disabled>
  <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>
  <Launch.Addon>
    <Name>Visual Effects Tool</Name>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>
    <Path>SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll</Path>
  </Launch.Addon>
  <Launch.Addon>
    <Name>Traffic Toolbox</Name>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>
    <Path>SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll</Path>
  </Launch.Addon>
  <Launch.Addon>
    <Name>Object Placement Tool</Name>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>
    <Path>SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll</Path>
  </Launch.Addon>
</SimBase.Document>
 
ollyau said:
Why not just edit Steam Edition's dll.xml (in %appdata%\Microsoft\FSX-SE) to reference the files included with Steam Edition? That way you'll still be able to use the original SDK tools with SP2 and Acceleration.
Click to expand...

I don't have FSXMS installed anymore aaaand overwriting files saves at least three mouse clicks compared to config file editing!
 
Have anyone got these tools working in FSX:SE? (Visualfxtool.dll, Object_Placement.dll, Traffictoolbox.dll)

Thanks

EDIT: I found the SDKs tools updated.

Thanks
 
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