Walter Eagle

Reporting back, as promised. Success! The converter stills shows some individual lines of errors but it ends with a 'completed' message, and I get a big .FlightAddon file as output. AddonManager can then take this in, and Flight itself eventually swallows all 5+ GB of it. And then ... well, let's just say I've already been exploring. Even picked up a wholly unexpected aerocache while wandering among the skyline of Barcelona! Now that I know this community exists, I hope I can stay around long enough to learn to make contributions to the forum, rather than just asking basic questions. Thank you again for the solution. Walter

Majuh, Oops, yes, sorry, I should have provided that kind of information. My bad. I was using Flight Toolkit 1.1.31 - hence I didn't realise that a thread specifically named "Flight Toolkit 1.1.30" would be relevant Now that I know there is a 1.1.32 (not mentioned on the flighttoolkit.com page) I'll try uninstalling 1.1.31, installing 1.1.32, and report back. Thank you for your very prompt response - much appreciated. Walter

Hi there New member here - I hope this is the right place to post. I'm definitely having some problems converting FS-X to Flight. Background - long-term user of Flight, but I never dreamed there was another world still living and breathing Flight! I've only just, in the past few weeks, discovered all the add-ons and extras that can form part of Flight. I've steadily been adding new aircraft etc to my installation. Problem - adding the world. I discovered the 'World Region UI' through the Flight AddOn Manager, but all that seemed to give me was a brownish mush everywhere outside Hawaii and Alaska. Then I discovered the FS-X scenery conversion idea. So I put down my money in Steam and acquired FS-X. Installed this with no further add-ones and it works OK. Next came the ContentConverter to get what I assume will be the FS-X world in to Flight? And this is where my error crops up. Initially the ContentConverter failed after - ... ... Loading BGL file index: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\Scenery\EURW\scenery\lisbon.bgl' Loading BGL file index: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\Scenery\EURW\scenery\London.bgl' Loading BGL file: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\Scenery\EURW\scenery\London.bgl' Loading MDL... Determining optimal material set Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at DetermineMaterialShaderPipeline(Model* , Material* ) at FlightToolkit.OptimizeMaterials(Model* pModel, ConversionOptions* pConversionOptions, unordered_map<int\,int\,std::hash<int>\,std::equal_to<int>\,std::allocator<std::pair<int const \,int> > >* mapOldToNewMaterials, vector<MDL::Material\,std::allocator<MDL::Material> >* vecNewMaterials, vector<int\,std::allocator<int> >* vecMaterialVertexDataFlags) at FlightToolkit.ModelConverter.ConvertMDL(Stream stream, String path, IEnumerable`1 textureSearchPaths, String tspName, ILogger logger, OutputTextureFormat outputTextureFormat, Boolean useMDLGuidAsMaterialVariationID, Boolean modelOnly) at FlightToolkit.SceneryConverter.ConvertFSXSceneryToFlight(String fsxSceneryCfgPath, String fsxTerrainCfgPath, String outputRootPath, HashSet`1 filesToSkip, HashSet`1 vegetationGroupings, IEnumerable`1 lclookupBgls, ILogger logger, IProgress`1 progress) at ContentConverter.Program.Main(String[] args) C:\> That was running Win 10 Home with Command Prompt in Admin mode. I assumed the 'memory is corrupt' suggestion referred to my own PC, so I ran mdsched.exe and no memory problems were found. I changed the output to a different physical disk and the same problem recurred. I tried changing other items but they all failed at the same point. Finally, I tried Command Prompt not in Admin mode, and removed the "/a" parameter from my command line. This time the process appeared to continue longer but still failed with - Loading MDL... Determining optimal material set Converting MDL ('lon_hammersmith': 2828ab56-ab35-4934-a892-3212561d4fbc) to Flight .Model... Converting textures... Converting materials Creating material variation Writing asset 'D:\FlightTemp\FSX World\materialVar\lon_hammersmith.materialVar' (1 of 6) Writing asset 'D:\FlightTemp\FSX World\material\lon_hammersmith_Material_0.material' (2 of 6) Writing asset 'D:\FlightTemp\FSX World\material\lon_hammersmith_Material_1.material' (3 of 6) Writing asset 'D:\FlightTemp\FSX World\model\lon_hammersmith.model' (4 of 6) Writing asset 'D:\FlightTemp\FSX World\texture\LON_Hammersmith.dds' (5 of 6) Writing asset 'D:\FlightTemp\FSX World\texture\LON_Hammersmith_LM.dds' (6 of 6) Loading MDL... Determining optimal material set Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at DetermineMaterialShaderPipeline(Model* , Material* ) at FlightToolkit.OptimizeMaterials(Model* pModel, ConversionOptions* pConversionOptions, unordered_map<int\,int\,std::hash<int>\,std::equal_to<int>\,std::allocator<std::pair<int const \,int> > >* mapOldToNewMaterials, vector<MDL::Material\,std::allocator<MDL::Material> >* vecNewMaterials, vector<int\,std::allocator<int> >* vecMaterialVertexDataFlags) at FlightToolkit.ModelConverter.ConvertMDL(Stream stream, String path, IEnumerable`1 textureSearchPaths, String tspName, ILogger logger, OutputTextureFormat outputTextureFormat, Boolean useMDLGuidAsMaterialVariationID, Boolean modelOnly) at FlightToolkit.SceneryConverter.ConvertFSXSceneryToFlight(String fsxSceneryCfgPath, String fsxTerrainCfgPath, String outputRootPath, HashSet`1 filesToSkip, HashSet`1 vegetationGroupings, IEnumerable`1 lclookupBgls, ILogger logger, IProgress`1 progress) at ContentConverter.Program.Main(String[] args) I'll be honest. I'm at the limits of my knowledge here (and perhaps a bit beyond!) - I've no idea what this is actually telling me or how to remedy it. Any suggestions on what to try (or additional symptoms I should have reported) are very welcome. Thank you in advance Walter