SceneryDesign.org Lockheed Martin has released a new version of Prepar3D, version 6. I have now updates my tools to support this version as well. That means you can select it as active FS version, that it will detect the installation location and that the SDK tools are also found from the Prepar3D v6 SDK. The only […]
FXEditor update
I have just released an updated version of the FXEditor tool. In this new version the following new features are included: In the text editor you can use code folding on emitters, particles and particle attributes. This means that for complex effects you can collapse some of them and thereby navigate easier through the file. […]
Prepar3D v5 support
I have just released new development release versions of all my tools with added support for Prepar3D v5. The impact of the new version on most tools is limited. Below I list the details per tool. Overall the impact on the tool is not that big. But let me know if you encounter any issues […]
Prepar3D v4 support
I have just released a new build of my tools that supports Prepar3D v4 as well. Below it is listed what this means for the different tools. ModelConverterX As far as I know now the MDL and BGL format in Prepar3D v4 are the same as in Prepar3D v2, so there is no new file […]
Prepar3D v3 support
The development releases of my tools now support Prepar3D v3. In the rest of this post I will provide the details about what this means for the different tools. ModelConverterX the Convert and Place Object Wizard supports P3D v3 now, so it’s a version you can select to export to. Also the P3D v3 SDK is considered […]
Windows 10
I guess nobody has missed that Microsoft released Windows 10 recently. I have upgraded my development laptop as well and things seem to be running fine. Until now I haven’t encountered conversion issues with any of my tools yet, they all seem to be working fine. ModelConverterX uses OpenGL, so make sure you have the […]
Support for FSX:SE
About two months ago a new edition of FSX was released on Steam, which is basically the same as the FSX Gold Edition. My different tools have been updated by now to be able to support this new edition as well. When you have both FSX and FSX:SE installed the tools will try to detect […]
Crashes at startup
Since I moved to .NET 4.0 a few weeks ago, some of the tools had random crashes, usually at startup. It turned out this was an issue in the text editor control that is used in the tools. Mainly scenProc and FXEditor were affected, because the text editor is a main part of the GUI […]
Different .NET version
From today the development releases of my tools target a different version of the .NET framework. You’ll need .NET 4.0 from now on for all my tools. So be sure that you have it installed. For scenProc I have used some of the new functionally of .NET 4.0 directly. As a result of the better […]
My tools and Windows XP
As you have most likely heard by now Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows XP as operating system. I know there are still many users using my tools on Windows XP as well and the decision of Microsoft doesn’t mean of course that my tools will stop working on Windows XP. However given that official support […]