I'm new to this scenery design, and really just want to edit my home airport to make it a little more realistic.  Maybe add some AI traffic to.  I have FSX with the Acceleration pack.  I installed the Acceleration SDK and I have ADE v 1.26 to.  Can't get that to do much either.  I think the reason the SDK isn't working is because I haven't edited the dll.xml file, simply because I can't find it.  Any help would be appreciated.

I agree - we could use a bit more information to be able to help. Are you trying to use ADE 1.26 to modify your airport?  If so is that generating some errors or are you trying to work with the SDK directly?   Some information about what process you have bee going through and what error messages are being generated (if any) would be a great help.  Also if you are using ADE 1.26 and it is generating errors there is a log file that stores this information and can help us find out what is wrong

The SDK is supposed to put a "Tools" menu in your FSX menu at the top, right?  As far as the SDK, I can't get it to do anything.  I was going to use ADE v.1.26 to add some static aircraft and change the parking at my home airport.  They have got the ramp as grass and and it should be asphalt and they only have about half the parking spots as what there is in the real world.  I guess my question is, after I edit the airport with ADE and get things like I want it, how do you change in the FSX so it shows up?  As far as the SDK goes, like I said, I can't get any part of it to do anything.  I notice it is all in a folder directly below my FSX main folder.  Also, I have tried using the "Config SDK" and it will do something, but nothing else seems to work.   I would also like to add some GA AI traffic there too, but I'll probably get into that after I get this other stuff going.  I guess the SDK traffic toolbox is what I was planning on using to do that.  Thanks, like I say, I'm a beginner here, but I don't think I'll have much problem once I can get the setup on these programs figured out.

jasonfriedlin wrote on May 27^th, 2008 at 10:58am:


I can't say why the tools menu would not show up in FSX.

If you have ADE installed correctly then you will not need anything else.   There is a install checker with ADE 1.26 that will check if everything is OK - Did you run that?  If ADE has found BglComp and Shp2Vec from the SDK (and by the way you need at least SP1a of the SDK - the version that comes on the deluxe edition DVD does not handle boundary fences) then you can just go ahead and re-design your airport.  Compile it to a scenery folder in Addon Scenery (Addon Scenery\scenery is the simplest) and then run FSX - you should see the scenery database being updated and then your changes should be present in FSX.

jason,

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dll.xml is at the same location as your fsx.cfg file.

*XP  C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX\  
*Vista  C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\

If you can't find the location or can't see the file:

In the Windows Explorer  menu bar click Tools>Folder Options>View tab..in the Advanced Settings list put a tick next to 'Show hidden files and folders' and uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'.

If you use the Explorer-search function, in the search input window click on 'More Advanced Options' and put checks next to 'Search system folders', 'Search hidden files and folders' and 'Search subfolders'.

Dave

WOW, I jut found the dll.xml and mad the changes, an my tools menu is there and all my home airport changes I made loaded automatically on the first flight.  That is awesome!!  I should b able to make more changes to it or set it back to original, right?  Thanks again for all the help guys, I really apprciate it, and if I get good at this stuff I'll keep on makin improvements and puttin up for everybody to enjoy. 

I finally got the 'tool' menu with the Object Placement Tool to show up,but when I click on it, it crashes FSX. Any ideas?

Scruffyduck wrote on May 28^th, 2008 at 3:21pm:


Just the usual error message box telling me that FSX stopped responding