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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:09 pm

Okay, I uninstalled FSX SDK and reinstalled it in c:\GMAX.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Alejandro Rhodes » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:07 am

[quote]Okay, I uninstalled FSX SDK and reinstalled it in c:\GMAX.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:33 am

I'm just about to step out to go to work, and will fix my boo-boo when I get home.  :o

Yes, the shape is done.  It's a sphere. It show up in the "scene" folder as "spherething.gmax."

Off to work I go!

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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:48 pm

Okay, in the process of unscrewing
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Felix/FFDS » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:59 pm

PS.  THe default SDK (from the disk, hereinafter referred to as SDK RTM) does NOT inlcude the gmax tools to create the FS-X model.  For that, you need the SP1 SDK .... and subsequent SDK updates.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:11 pm

[quote]PS.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Felix/FFDS » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:34 pm

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Yes, young grasshopper (or padwan, according to your age). ALso, "send"  the gmax_FSX icon to your desktop, and ONLY start gmax  for FS-X from THAT icon (it sets up gmax with the correct settings to look for the plugins, etc.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:52 pm

Hmm, "grasshopper" or "padwan"?  "Goofy old coot" would probably be more accurate. :P  "yea, I have seen fifty seasons of the swallows returning to Capastrano..."  But don't let that get you, it only feels like twenty. :)

As to gamepack, done and done.

Okay, driver setup:

Software Z buffer or custom driver?  Since I don't have any fancy add-on I'm guessing "Z" is good, but the next option is "Open GL" or "Direct3d"

EEny, meany, mieny, moe....
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Fr. Bill » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:36 pm

Start with Direct3D... Avoid the OpenGL like the plague it is...

The Heidi software driver should be used only as a last resort. ;)
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:02 pm

Okay, got that set.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:06 pm

[quote]PS.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Felix/FFDS » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:36 am

[quote][quote]PS.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:06 pm

Now, remember, if you've installed SDK SP2, you should also have FS-X SP-2 (or FS-X ACceleration) installed.


Going to download SP2 now.  Will I have to reinstall anything after I install SP2?
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Boikat » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:58 pm

Gee.  Nobody said I *had* to have a graphics card for this.

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I'm dead in the water until I can get a graphics card, maybe by the end of August (I have to repair my house central air first, both the fan motor for the outside cooling blower and the inside circulation motor have lost their bearings.  Not cheap, even doing the work myself.  :-/

What's weird is I had installed SP1 a few days ago, yet when I tried to install SP2, it said I hadn't.  Eh, micorsoft....
In the mean time, uninstalling SP2 so I can fly.
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Re: Standing at the brink

Postby Alejandro Rhodes » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:18 pm

OMG dear lord
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