• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

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About two months ago a new edition of FSX was released on Steam, which is basically the same as the FSX Gold Edition. My different have been updated by now to be able to support this new edition as well.

When you have both FSX and FSX:SE installed the tools will try to detect FSX first and if found they will use that path to load FS specific items from. If you only have FSX:SE installed that version will be used as FSX install by the tools.

The main difference is that FSX:SE does not include the SDK tools, which are used by most of my tools. And this week we finally got an answer from Dovetail Games as well that they will not include these tools either. This means that developers with only FSX:SE will need to get the SDK tools in a different way.

Installing the FSX SDK only works if you have the boxed version of FSX, since only SDK updates can be downloaded. But you need to install the original SDK from the disc first. So that’s not an option in general for FSX:SE only users. Luckily you can download the P3D 1.4 SDK, which contains equivalent tools and can be downloaded for free. So if you want to use my tools to make scenery and only have FSX:SE installed, be sure to grab the P3D 1.4 SDK and install that. The tools will find the location of the SDK automatically based on the registry settings.

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