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FSX I cant get SDK to function

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Hey im Jack i own deluxe+Acelleration and are both installed correctly i have installed sdk, sdk sp1a and sdk2 and i still cant get it to work does anyone have ideas does the tools menu show up when in free flight or at game menu please help i am getting very frustrated since i have had theese games nearly 2 years :confused:
 
I'll let someone else chime in on this one.

I cannot seem to get the 'in-FSX' system working either (no matter what) but Gmax works fine (thank the Lord).

There are some semi-sophisticated ways of changing some code for the 'in-FSX' programs to work, but they never worked for me.



Bill
 
Have you eneabled the particular tool, etc that you want in the dll.xml file ?

From the Special Effects SDK "Setup" section .....


Setup
The tool itself is coded in visualfxtool.dll, and can be found in the Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK folder.

To install the dll, the dll.xml file in the <Drive>:\Documents and Settings\<alias>\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX folder should contain the following bold lines (if the dll.xml file already exists in this folder), or the dll.xml file should contain all the following (if the dll.xml file does not already exist at the right location).


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>

<SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">
<Descr>Launch</Descr>
<Filename>dll.xml</Filename>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>


<Launch.Addon>
<Name>Special Effects Tool </Name>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll</Path>
</Launch.Addon>



</SimBase.Document>



Note that the Disabled entries must be False, and that the Path is either absolute or relative to the installation Microsoft Flight Simulator X folder. The path given above will change if the SDK or Flight Simulator X were not installed to their default folders. If there are other addons that need to be loaded, such as the Object Placement tool, then they will also need <Launch.Addon> entries.
This is all the setup that is necessary. The tool can be run simply be selecting FX Tool from the Tools menu.
 
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