I tried installing the plugin in a clean system with 3ds max 2024 just installed and the FS2020 plugin fails to appear at all. I also tried manually copying the plugins in the 3ds max folders and while the menus appear, they do not run correctly. No errors during installation.
Is there any suggestion to get it up and running again?
Note that in the previous system I had 3ds max 2023 installed, then added 2024 on top and the plugin installed perfectly well. I don’t know if that affects it.
Went to Asobo’s github and downloaded the older 3ds max plugin with the batch installers. Note that while its plugins contain up to max 2023, the batch file only goes up to 2022
Replaced the old plugin files with the ones from 0.24.5
Modified the .bat file to extend it to max 2024
Ran the .bat file and installed the plugin, which seems to work.
I am, again, having problems getting a good installation of the FS2020 & 2024 plugins in both max 2024 and max 2025, even after a PC format.
2020 max plugin was installed by modifying the .bat file from Asobo’s github and installing the 2024 plugins through it and works, as I wrote above.
The 2024 plugin is inconsistent though. I don’t get installation errors, but I am getting an error that it can’t find Newtonsoft Json version 13 in 2024. A pop-up error about Max2Babylon also appears when I drag materials across slots to copy them in 2025.
Despite that, I have been able to export the Kodiak 100 for FS2024 without issue, but converting scenes from 2020 to 2024 and exporting the K900 results in errors and broken models.
The 2020 installer has a 2024 option in it and I had it installed and working through it since Summer. It worked back in Summer, but with a clean machine and fresh 3ds max installation it just fails to install (as of when I opened this topic). Thus I’m using the modified .bat.
My real issue is that I can’t get a good installation of the 2024 Plugins in max 2024 and max 2025.
The 2020 plugins do not support 3dsmax 2025 yet, you will need to keep using 3dsmax 2024 to have both plugins installed for now. We’ll try to update the MSFS2020 plugins for 3dsmax 2025 as soon as possible.