Traffic Toolbox

Hi

Looking for some help with Traffic toolbox.

I have installed the traffic SDK in FSX-SE, and it works absolutely fine

I have installed the SDK in FSX, and it doesn't work!!!

They are both installed on the same PC running W10, (without any problems)

and these are the relevant paths in the dll.xml file, in the relevant app data folders

FSX-SE

Traffic Toolbox

False

False

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll

works fine:)

FSX

Traffic Toolbox

False

False

C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll

No workie:mad:

I have copied the traffic toolbox from steam and put in the FSX folder, so I can't work out

why it's declining to work!!, any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Happy Xmas to all you wonderful simmers, wherever you are, and have a great new year,

Cheers from a very wet and windy Devon,

Richard

well, as fanatic as M/S is about having the correct versions of the SDK and the sim properly matched, I'd think that the SE version DLL is only correctly matched to FSX.exe (SE) but not when it is being used with disk version FSX (since it's being used with a fsx.exe of a different version). Just my guess; I've thought about just copying it also but never got around to testing it...

Loyd

well, as fanatic as M/S is about having the correct versions of the SDK and the sim properly matched, I'd think that the SE version DLL is only correctly matched to FSX.exe (SE) but not when it is being used with disk version FSX (since it's being used with a fsx.exe of a different version). Just my guess; I've thought about just copying it also but never got around to testing it...

 

Loyd

I think the same as Loyd.

Another thing: between FSX and Traffictool box (on the path) there is no environment kit folder mentioned???

Good Catch Flattermann ... I incorrectly thought he'd copied the DLL but, in re-reading, he did say INSTALL and the path is missing the \SDK\Environment Kit\ portion of the installation path that we'd expect. I do find it very odd to install to the Desktop but I don't have any experience to suggest that it wouldn't work there. I think I'd visually find that dll and make sure the path is correctly defined in the dll.xml.

L

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies, and well spotted on the folder paths, but

I have taken the Traffic toolbox out of the SDK/Environment folder,

so the path is correct and matches exactly, as I only have the

Traffic toolbox folder with the dll.xml and other bits in installed in

the main FSX folder, so I guess you maybe right in saying that it

needs the correct SDK for FSX, that I don't have:(

As for installing FS on the desktop, I have been doing it for years

and it seems to work fine, I seem to remember reading somewhere

that the shorter you can make the path to your FS, the quicker it

can load, hence the scenery folders on the desktop also, but thanks

for the replies

cheers

Richard

Don't forget, there are two different SDK versions that you have to use.

One is for FSX-SE, and it's a version of the P3D SDK, which can be downloaded from the FSDeveloper Resources section.

The other, for FSX Box, is included on the FSX discs, and must be downloaded and installed from them.

And never the twain shall meet, as the saying goes.

Finally, yes, in the FSX Box DLL.XML entry, the "Environment Kit" part of the path is missing. Is this intentional, or inadvertant?

Good fortune!

Pat☺

Hi Pat,

The path is correct, all I did was copied the, "Traffic Tool Box" folder and

put it in the main FSX folder, I didn' bother with the environment folder so the

path is C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll and

that is intentional, but as you pointed out, it is the wrong SDK:(, so taint ever

gonna work:D, I will have to see if I can find the correct SDK, it didn't install with

my box FSX

Many thanks for the help,

Richard

It can be found, and downloaded from here : https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/resources/prepar3d-v1-sdk.227/

Hope this helps a little...

By the way: when you click the button "Go To Download" in the upper right area of the page, it starts the download. It gives no real indication that it did so, it just starts it downloading to your PC. Once it's all the way done, just use your browser's normal method of finding it on your computer.

Then, open it with your normal zipfile software. I use 7Zip, but everyone uses their own.

Pat☺

Hi Pat,

Thanks for the info, I found the SDK on the FSX disc, didn't realise

it was on there, so installed that and gave it a go, still no joy:(

So I then downloaded the P3D SDK from the link you provided,

installed that, and guess what, still no joy, although when I did

start FSX, it did ask me to confirm I wanted to load and trust the

traffic tools module, but it still didn't bloody load it:confused:

I can load FSX-SE and I have the "TOOLS" tab in the menu bar

across the top, open that up and there are the traffic tools.

I load FSX and no "TOOLS" tab, nothing, nada, zilch, wtf:mad:

Both are installed OUT of the x86 folder as usual, so I

just can't see why it won't load it.

This is the FSX dll, that wont load:, note that all the other

active items load correctly

-

Launch

dll.xml

False

False

-

ObjectFlow_EGTH.dll

False

False

C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\ORBX\FTX_EU\FTX_AA_EGTH\Scenery\ObjectFlow_EGTH.dll

-

ObjectFlow_EGHP.dll

False

False

C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\ORBX\FTX_EU\FTX_AA_EGHP\Scenery\ObjectFlow_EGHP.dll

-

ObjectFlow.dll

False

False

C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAA_ORBXLIBS\Scenery\ObjectFlow.dll

-

ObjectFlow_EGHA.dll

False

False

C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\ORBX\FTX_EU\FTX_AA_EGHA\Scenery\ObjectFlow_EGHA.dll

-

Object Placement Tool

True

False

..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll

-

Traffic Toolbox

False

False

C:\P3DSDK\Environment SDK\Traffic Toolbox SDK\TrafficToolbox.dll

-

Visual Effects Tool

True

False

..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll

-

CMeteoXml

False

.\CMeteoXml.dll

-

CMeteoXml

False

.\CMeteoXml.dll

-

FS Recorder

False

False

C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\FSX\FSRecorder_FSX.dll

-

FSUIPC 4

False

Modules\FSUIPC4.dll

This is the FSX-SE dll that does load

-

Launch

dll.xml

False

False

-

ObjectFlow.dll

False

False

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAA_ORBXLIBS\Scenery\ObjectFlow.dll

-

Object Placement Tool

True

False

..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll

-

Traffic Toolbox

False

False

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll

-

Visual Effects Tool

True

False

..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll

-

FSUIPC 4

False

Modules\FSUIPC4.dll

/SimBase.Document>

I just can't see the reason it won't load it, very annoying,

but I guess it will turn out to be operator error as usual,

cheers

Richard

I don't understand this.

If you've correctly installed SDK for FSX-SE and it's working, you should only rewrite the paths in your boxed FSX dll.xml to

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll (the Steam path).

No need to install the SDK a second time. How did you manage that btw?

Both versions can work with that one single SDK imo.

[ADDED] IF your boxed FSX is FSX+Accel

Wim

Hi Wim

I don't understand this.

 

If you've correctly installed SDK for FSX-SE and it's working, you should only rewrite the paths in your boxed FSX dll.xml to

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll (the Steam path).

 

 

Wim

I tried changing the path as you posted above, but still no joy, and to be honest I am

not that bothered if it doesn't work in FSX boxed, I only use this to test things that I

am going to use in FSX-Steam, so although it would have been good if it had worked,

it works fine in Steam, so no sleep lost there, but thanks to all who replied, much

appreciated,

Happy New year to you all,

Richard