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Problem exporting FSX_Gmax .mdl

John, I've been there and got the teeshirt and blackeye myself!

Recently, I thought I'd be clever and try to configure Max9 to use the FSX SDK. Of course, I didn't have FSX installed on my (really lame) development computer, so I just copy/pasted the Acceleration SDK from my flightsim computer...

...then wasted many hours trying to make it work, which eventually I did...

...mostly. However I soon ran into some very serious problems with trying to export, because in three separate sub-routines the FSX Tools had to read/parse the modeldef.xml file. The problem was that it was looking in three separate places to find it!

Finally, I got my brain working again and bit the bullet. Installed FSX + SPs, installed SDKs properly, set the path in Max9 and...

...it worked the first time, just as advertised! Quelle surprise!

Yep, "wandering off the reservation" is definitely a classis "bad idea!" :rotfl:
 
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