• I am a registered user of FSDS V2.x. How can I upgrade to FSDS V3?
   
• Will I be able to use my FSDS V2.x aircraft with FSDS V3?
   
• Can I sell aircraft or scenery that I make with FSDS?
   
• How does Autosave work?
   
• After I install FSDS V3, I am unable to apply textures to any parts. What is the problem?
   
• I cannot find the Software Development Kits (SDKs) using the links in the File | Preferences menu in FSDS v3. How can I download the FS2004 SDKs?
   

If you are a registered user of FSDS V2.x, you can upgrade to FSDS V3 for a special price of $29. You must have a duly registered copy of FSDS V2.x on your computer to complete the upgrade installation.
 
Installation of this upgrade requires that a registered version of FSDS V2 on your hard drive. To qualify for the special upgrade price, users must be duly registered users of FS Design Studio V2.x and have a valid FSDS V2 registration key.

To order your FSDS V3 upgrade click below:

Yes, with FSDS V2 you can Open an FSDS V2.x project.
The following items may be applicable to the new FSDS V3 project:
 
_ Aircraft animator tags are removed - you'll use a different method to animate moving parts
_ Transformatons - these are no longer supported
_ SDL macros - the current version of SDL macros are incompatible with FSDS V2
_ Mirrored polygon - these are no longer supported
_ Duplicate part names - thesse are renamed to insure that the part names are unique

Yes. The license allows you to sell, barter or trade aircraft and scenery that you make with FSDS V3. However, you must be sure that you have the right to produce the visual model for the aircraft or scenery.

You can specify the Autosave frequency from the File | Preferences dialog. By default this is 10 minutes. As you are working on your project, it you have not saved the project within the specified number of minutes, FSDS will make a copy of your project. The project is copied to a file named "autosave.dst" and is located in your main FSDS folder.
 
If you later have a computer problem that prevents you from using your original project (e.g. project.fsc), you can revert to the project as it was last saved. Make a copy of autosave.dst, called project-copy.fsc for example, and work with this copy.

Keep in mind that the autosave.dst file represents the state of your project at the time it was automatically saved and will not have all of the changes that you subsequently make to the project. We suggest that you save the project often using a filename other than autosave.dst.

I cannot find the Software Development Kits (SDKs) using the links in the File | Preferences menu in FSDS v3. How can I download the FS2004 SDKs?

Microsoft recently changed the location of the SDK download files. They can be downloaded from here <see links below>

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