Hello everyone.  Haven't been on here for quite a while and I'm a bit rusty.  I haven't designed any scenery in months, but did at one time know how with FS2002 and had very good results.

I recently bought FS2004 and am getting back into scenery design.  I've installed gmax and the SDKs and I think I have the various directories and files where they're supposed to be (i.e. I unzipped the Gmax SDK package into my C:\gmax\ directory).

To cut to the chase, when I 'export' my model (scenery) out of gmax, I name my file and save it to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery\scenery, save as type "Flight Scenery Object (*.MDL), and then the makemdl dialog box opens up...but then closes as soon as the file is exported.  It doesn't give me a chance to enter the lat/long, select any options, LOD or anything else within the makemdl dialog.  The files are placed in the right directory but I don't get the opportunity to give it world coordinates.

Do any other gmax files/directories need to be moved to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9 directory?

Any help would be most appreciated!  

Look in the directory that you exported to for the *.log file. It will have the same name as your models name but with a .log extension. Open it with a simple text editor like Notepad. It should give you a clue as to what the problem is.

Lou