Hi folks,

 

I used to use FSM for scenery cfg editing and error checking among other things but have not done so for some years... It used to be the case that it could be made to work by tweaking the date back to pre 2005, but my current Windows7 setup gets really upset if I try that!

Anyway, does anybody know of a modern (ie currently working / supported) equivalent for this? The functionality that I am looking for now is the ability to ferret through the scenery files and folders and then tell me if there are any bad errors / missing effects / missing textures..?

 

Cheers,

Geoff

Hi Geoff

 

I'm sure others can answer your question,

 

Anyway, does anybody know of a modern (ie currently working / supported) equivalent for this?

 

Just wondering, have you tried the patch for FlightSim Manger? With it you don't have to change the date/time.

 

http://www.flightsim...earchid=5357237

File Name: fsmgr.zip at Flightsim.com

RJ

Nice one, I knew about that but the last time I looked our it I didn't find it. Thanks for the link.

 

Geoff

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/

http://sourceforge.n...ts/fs-sceditor/

 

Yes, that's the one I have been using the last years. It doesn't have the landclass scanning or effects checking of FSM though.

 

Got FSM working now and all good. I /had/ thought that it had a capability for checking if a scenery was missing textures (or if they were in the wrong format) but I see it does not... I don't suppose any such tool exists..? I'm hunting for the cause of some semi-repeatable non-AI related g3d.dll CTDs...

 

Geoff

g3d.dll CTDs....Fsuipc has a built in workaround to block. them in many instances. If you don't already have it installed, get yourself a copy. The free version will suffice. http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66139-updated-modules/

Really, wow! I was sure that was only for FSX....

I'll check it out right now.

 

Geoff

Hi Geoff

 

I'm sure others can answer your question,

 

 

 

Just wondering, have you tried the patch for FlightSim Manger? With it you don't have to change the date/time.

 

http://www.flightsim...earchid=5357237

File Name: fsmgr.zip at Flightsim.com

RJ

 

Tried it, followed instructions to a T,....... and it doesn't work.

Really, wow! I was sure that was only for FSX....

I'll check it out right now.

 

Geoff

 

You could be right, but got to be worth a try.

 

 

Tried it, followed instructions to a T,....... and it doesn't work.

 

Are you sure? I got it working, but only after realising that the patch requires the path to Flightsim Manager to be correct. Watch out if you have a 64 bit OS, as you will have to send FSM to the Program Files folder and not the "Program Files(x86)" one...

 

// FSUIPC: no evidence that the latest (3.999y5) has any g3d.dll avoidance functionality... I will ask on Pete's forum, but I think he said before that the fix was FSX only. Shame, but that's the way of things.

 

Geoff

I just turned the clock back to get it to work. Interesting progam. It found a few things that could be fixed. I was hoping it would locate corrupt textures as well, and it looked like that would've been a future feature.

Yeah, I think an ability to scan for corrupted textures would be nice. I don't know of any way to do it currently apart from a semi-manual method:

- List the textures by size and check for 'odd' sized ones

- Open the thumbnail viewer in DXTBMP and check that there are no 'unopenable' ones

 

Geoff