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This page is the ReadMe.txt file that comes with SBuilderX 3.13. Later versions, 3.14 and 3.15, included many additions to the operation of SBuilderX. Please refer to the forum here at PTSim for full information.

SBUILDERX - DESCRIPTION

This version of SBuilderX, version 3.13, is a scenery creation tool for FSX. SBuilderX produces the following types of scenery:

- Land and Water Class Scenery
- Photo Scenery
- Vector Scenery
- Exclusion Rectangles
- Objects Placement
- Ground Textured Polygons and Lines
- Generic Buildings
- Extrusion Bridges

SBUILDERX - INSTALLATION

To install SBuilderX, you run the file SBuilderX313.msi. The installer will check for all Windows components that are needed to run SBuilderX and instructs you if some of these components are not found.

SBUILDERX - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my gratitude to Luis Féliz-Tirado without whom many additions in this present edition were not possible. His tutorials, his carefully testing, his positive criticism and even is help in putting together many files of this program, are most appreciated. SBuilderX also benefited from the support of many FSX experts. Here is an incomplete list: João Hespanha, Richard Ludowise, José Lobo, Holger Sandmann, Scott Gridley, Luis Feliz Tirado, Scott Smart, Dick Boley, Ian Gallacher, Ross Casey, Lance Tucker, Mischa, and Arno Gerretsen. I am also grateful to Manfred Moldenhauer for Scasm, Pete Dowson for FSUIPC, Paul Henty for FsuipcClient, Jon Masterson for jmBglLib, and to the authors of the “Shapelib” software. Finally, I would like to thank the Microsoft FSX Aces Team for making FSX.


SBUILDERX - LICENSE AGREEMENT

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using SBuilderX. Unless you have a different license agreement signed by PTSIM your use of SBuilderX indicates your acceptance of this license agreement and warranty.

* COPYRIGHT
SBuilderX is copyright © 2007-2009 Luis Sá & PTSim. SBuilderX can be posted, distributed or made available for download providing that its original ZIP file is not modified. You can use SBuilderX in freeware scenery projects provided that you make a statement in the documentation of your project similar to this one: "SBuilderX, was used in the making of ". In order to use SBuilderX in a commercial project you need to contact PTSim at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

* PLUG-INS
SBuilderX can be supplied to you with third party Plug-Ins that add the capacity to use background images downloaded from the Internet. If you use any of such Plug-Ins, you agree to comply with all applicable terms and conditions that such images may hold.

* DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
The software is furnished ‘AS IS’ and does not come with any implicit or explicit guarantee. The author declines any responsibility for contingent malfunctions, deceleration and any drawback that should arise using this software.