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Jerry H

Jerry H

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Hello,
I will apologize to start for this long post.
I have been flying MS flight sims for a long time using it in conjunction with my real life flight training and keeping skills up when the weather is bad.

I have been flying FS since FS 98 and currently hce FS9 and FSX loaded.

I had problems with my orginal FSX CD's so I purchased the "GOLD" edition.
I have installed along with Acceleration on my G: drive. ( a 750G harddrive)
I have a AMD Athalon 64x2 Dual Core PRocessor 5000+ 2.61 GHZ
2.0GB Ram , Video card GeForce 8800GT
The only changes I have made are two tweaks to the fsx.cfg file for Bufferpool settings and Fibertime setting.
I have Fupic 4 loaded to run FS Fying school program

The reason for this post:
I would like to learn about making scenery, aircraft etc.
I loaded the SDK on the CD onto my G drive and tried to follow the instructions on the SDK reference docs.
I loaded sp1a, sp2 came with the acceleration pack.
checked the dll file in the apps section making the true-False change and putting in the path to the G drive.

But I still do not seek the tools in my FSX menu bar when I open up my default flight.
I am not sure what to do next to get this to work. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Jerry
 
Hi Folks

Jerry -
Please see FSDeveloper - Wiki - SDK Installation (FSX)
Ensure you've installed the SDK SP2,
and not just SDK SP1a.



Good clue/quick-check is -
the SDK SP2 documentation
is provided in a single-file compiled help format, (fsxsdk.chm)
rather than the previously supplied html format.



If you've got the fsxsdk.chm,
then remove all other addon refs in dll.xml.

EDIT
As you've installed FSX on a different drive, (G: ),
if you've installed the SDK to the default drive, (C: ),
then you must use the full path in the dll.xml
e.g.
Code: 
<Path>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll</Path>


HTH
ATB
Paul
 
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SDK Install Co9mplete

Hello BASys,
Thanks for your note. I had the document printed before i made the post but still could get it to work.
I went through each step closely and finally got it to work using the Non default instuctions on page 4.
I had to remove the two periods after path the myG drive address

Now I can start to learn how to use these tools
Thanks
Jerry
 
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