Deutschland X is now fully FTX compatible!

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Deutschland X is now fully FTX compatible!

Post by horst18519 » Thu May 23, 2013 11:15 am

For those of you owning FTX products and being used to switching on/off the FTX mode to use your other addons, we have some very good news:

Deutschland X is now fully compatible with all FTX addons!

To use DEX with the FTX mode switched on, please follow these simple steps:
  • If you installed DEX with the FTX mode disabled (suggested), please switch on the FTX mode now with the FTXCentral tool on your desktop.
  • Close the FTXCentral app.
  • Go to the folder "\Addon Scenery\FSDG - Deutschland X" and double-click on the dexutil.exe.
  • A black command window will pop up and close after an instant.
  • FTX and DEX are now fully compatible!
Note:
  • If you have any FTX UK addons installed, you need to copy the files from this archive into your FSX folder. For some reason FTX UK disables the use of the ocean water definition DEX uses. With these files you can fix that. You don't have to do that everytime, just once and everything is ok.
  • You have to run the dexutil everytime you have used the FTXCentral app (even if you did not make any changes there) because the FTXCentral app always affects the terrain.cfg and default.xml as soon as you close the app. If you're not sure if you ran the dexutil the last time you used the FTXCentral app, just double-click the dexutil, it won't do any harm.
  • The dexutil always sorts the DEX areas in the scenery library on top of the list, just like the FTXCentral app does. To use your german airport or airfield sceneries, you have to move the DEX areas below those areas in the scenery library before starting your flight (see DEX manual). You might want to use a scenery manager to easily get back your preferred scenery library order.
  • If you use FTX UK, the ORBX trees will be used for the DEX terrain as well. Allthough this was not in our interest, we can't change it. It should not affect your DEX experience too much, though, as those trees look in fact not too bad.
  • This only applies to the DEX Complete Pack and DEX Terrain Pack. The Landmarks&Airports Pack is always compatible with FTX.
We tested this with different FTX products and setups and did not find any issues. If you do, feel free to contact us.

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