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FSX Gmax setup, I have forgotten... sigh..

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Hey all,

I had successfully brought over Gmax to the new computer/drive, setup Registry to activate it, boots up fine, have all my scenes, etc.

But......! I do not have the 'Tool's for FSX on the top toolbar of Gmax. Does one need to load up the FSX SDK and link Gmax to that? I thought that Gmax was self contained having its own Gamepack folder with FSX plugins in it (which mine does, same from the other installation, just copy/pasted into this drive).


Bill
 
Shakes head...

The details are in the SDK Bill, but you need the SDK installed and to run Gmax from the supplied shortcut. Supplied with the SDK, that is.
 
My "FS Tools" menu shows up about every 10th time I start gmax, usually I just do everything the old FS9 way with "Maxscript > run script" and then choose the LOD name tool or the attach tool. I can also run the FSToolsMenu.ms script which fixes the missing FS Tools menu but usually I just need to assign a GUID or something so it's quicker to just run the LOD name tool script directly and not worry about the FS Tools menu.
 
JRobinson said:
My "FS Tools" menu shows up about every 10th time I start gmax, usually I just do everything the old FS9 way with "Maxscript > run script" and then choose the LOD name tool or the attach tool. I can also run the FSToolsMenu.ms script which fixes the missing FS Tools menu but usually I just need to assign a GUID or something so it's quicker to just run the LOD name tool script directly and not worry about the FS Tools menu.
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I forgot about running the SDK script! Many thanks, JRobinson.

Yep, Tom, I know. bad... sigh..
 
JRobinson said:
My "FS Tools" menu shows up about every 10th time I start gmax, usually I just do everything the old FS9 way with "Maxscript > run script" and then choose the LOD name tool or the attach tool. I can also run the FSToolsMenu.ms script which fixes the missing FS Tools menu but usually I just need to assign a GUID or something so it's quicker to just run the LOD name tool script directly and not worry about the FS Tools menu.
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That was indeed the issue, the intermittent appearance. I went into Gmax to bootup the tools via the script and it showed up on its own this time, lol.
 
When I first installed gmax on this machine the FS Tools menu was there every time I started the program. For a while after installing the FSX gamepack it was even there if I ran the FS2004 gamepack, lol. Lately though I have to use the "run script" option almost every time, not sure what I have messed up, everything works fine if I use "run script" so I guess I won't worry about it. Strange behavior though. :)
 
Same issue here. I found that running script \gamepacks\FSX_GmaxGamePack\scripts\startup\BootStrap.ms does the trick, too, and I suspect that this is what should be auto-executed on startup but does so erratically, for some wholly unknown reason.
 
Make absolutely certain that your desktop shortcut is precisely like this:

Target:
Code: 
%GMAXLOC%gmax.exe -i gamepacks\FSX_GMaxGamepack\gmax.ini -p gamepacks\FSX_GMaxGamepack\plugin.ini
Start in:
Code: 
%GMAXLOC%
 
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