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Helli

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Hello,

While trying to solve an "effects-problem" I spend a full day reading all relevant entries, both here and under GMax.

I followed with interest the discussions of 2005 and 2006, where people struggled with the basics of the FS2004 Effects SDK.
- Many threads were never finished and questions remained unanswered.
- Others came to good conclusions and promises were made to collect the findings in tutorials. They never appeared or vanished.
- Several members seemed to develop into real experts, but they do not come forward today, when (not surprisingly) the same old questions pop up again.

I really wonder, whether we newcomers still have to struggle with the content of the FS2004 SDK-documents, which seem to be complete but which are very poor in giving guidance and leave many questions open.

Or are there in the meanwhile tutorials or books available, which are so obvious that I do not see them?

sincerely

Helli
 
Hello

it was three months ago, that I wrote this posting.
And 296 readers have looked at it!!

Yet there was no response.

In the meanwhile I have continued with my search for reading and learning material on the whole subject of effects.

No results so far!

For me this is quite unbelievable. There are many tidbits around, small narrow and very specialized questions with even more specialized answers. But the whole picture is not available.

Are effects not important enough?
Or am I the only one who does not understand the obvious?

Helli

post scriptum:
in case that this second posting is read again by app. 300 people and nobody has an answer, I will give up.
 
hello helli
i'm sorry that i can't properlly help you because i only use fs10 and never used fs9

Or am I the only one who does not understand the obvious?
...
In the meanwhile I have continued with my search for reading and learning material on the whole subject of effects.
Click to expand...
did you read the SDK documents? i learned fs10 effect by reading the docs and then going into the fx tool and changing/modifing the default effects.

~~Read documentation~~
~~Expirement~~

Hope that helps you some and forgive my feeble atempts at helping you.

P.S. this is the first time i read this post. i only joined this forum a couple week ago.
 
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Hello Ronnie,

thanks for trying!

Well, what you are saying is totally right but also the crux.

The FS9-SDK for Effects is to my knowledge the only source of information (except the forum discussions of 2005 and 2006).

The general agreement is that the SDK is just a brief overview, not deep enough to be helpful.

Maybe in the FS10-case it is different.
I did not bother to check, since due to hardware constraints FS10 is pretty useless so far for me.

Thanks anyway for your opinion.

Helli
 
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