Failed initialization of Blender

[Jason z]

I'm new to Blender and I'm just getting used to it so forgive me if this question has an obvious solution or I'm providing too little information. I recently downloaded the latest version of Blender and the latest compatible FSX/P3D Toolset. I followed the tutorial offeredfsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blender2P3D/FSX but when I get to the "Configure the SDK" step, Blender keeps on giving me an error. I tried autodetect and when that didn't work, I tried manually selecting it. Both times it gave an error message. Help?

 

[Pyscen]

Hello...

Do you have the FSX SDK installed? and for which FSX is this? Is it FSX-A or is it FSX: Steam?

 

[Jason z]

Hello...

Do you have the FSX SDK installed? and for which FSX is this? Is it FSX-A or is it FSX: Steam?

I have FSX SDK installed for FSX-A.

 

[Pyscen]

Hello
What were you doing prior to initializing? Were you attempting to compile? Try this,... before initializing make sure you have a friendly name for the model and Quid # as well.

 

[Jason z]

Hello
What were you doing prior to initializing? Were you attempting to compile? Try this,... before initializing make sure you have a friendly name for the model and Quid # as well.

I did not do anything to the model, I just had the default cube that you get when you opened Blender. Unfortunately assigning the model a name and quid does not work. Additionally, I tried to run blender as admin and open a saved blender project but that does not solve the problem either.

 

[Pyscen]

Have you tried to initialize after deleting the default cube and camera etc? Meaning, nothing visible or loaded into the viewport?

 

[Jason z]

Have you tried to initialize after deleting the default cube and camera etc? Meaning, nothing visible or loaded into the viewport?

Just tried that and it still is giving me that error. I thought manually finding the SDK might work but when I do so it also gives me an error

 

[Pyscen]

Hmmm... does your MCX work without any problems? If you haven't tried that please do... try to compile something within MCX...

Hopefully, @Vitus can look at this error too.

 

[Jason z]

Hmmm... does your MCX work without any problems? If you haven't tried that please do... try to compile something within MCX...

Hopefully, @Vitus can look at this error too.

All my other programs such as MCX, ADE, and GMAX work. It's just blender at the moment.

 

[Vitus]

Hi Jason,
What's the error when you try to manually select the modeldef.xml?

 

[Jason z]

Hi Jason,
What's the error when you try to manually select the modeldef.xml?

 

[Jason z]

When I try to manually select the SDK file path, I also get an error. I don't know if that might help y'all to figure out what is going on but it looks like this:

 

[Pyscen]

Hello again...

Can We assume that the SDK was installed prior to?

Try this... deactivate the Toolset and delete it. Shut down Blender and then reload it again... Next, re-install the toolset and activate it again.

 

[Vitus]

This is odd indeed...
The first error means that the addon can't parse the XML file. The second error makes no sense to me.... It might be a UAC issue or maybe a corrupt installation?
Maybe check if the addon installed correctly. It should be in:
%APPDATA%\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.82\scripts\addons\P3DFSXToolset

You could try to reinstall it again.

Another thing might be to run Blender as Admin and see if that does something.

I really don't know what it could be. I just installed Blender on my Laptop to test this and it picks up the FSX:A SDK with no issues.

 

[Jason z]

This is odd indeed...
The first error means that the addon can't parse the XML file. The second error makes no sense to me.... It might be a UAC issue or maybe a corrupt installation?
Maybe check if the addon installed correctly. It should be in:
%APPDATA%\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.82\scripts\addons\P3DFSXToolset

You could try to reinstall it again.

Another thing might be to run Blender as Admin and see if that does something.

I really don't know what it could be. I just installed Blender on my Laptop to test this and it picks up the FSX:A SDK with no issues.

The SDK is correctly installed and has been working for all my other programs. Reinstall of the addon did not work. I also tried reinstalling blender and then reinstalling the addon. It still gave me the error message. In case you wanted to know, here's the Blender Addon in the Appdata folder:

 

[Vitus]

I'm still clueless what could cause this. Another thing to try would be to restore the original modeldef.xml and see if the addon can parse it then.

 

[Vitus]

Maybe @MANOCHVARMA RAMAN has an idea?

 

[Jason z]

I'm still clueless what could cause this. Another thing to try would be to restore the original modeldef.xml and see if the addon can parse it then.

Restoring the original did not work either

 

[Vitus]

Another shot in the dark:
Open the find_modeldef.py file with a text editor, and un-comment line 100. It should look like this afterwards:

[...]

    def execute(self, context):
        print(' ModelDef.xml File path = ',self.filepath)#setup variable to hold filepath
        bpy.context.scene.fsx_modeldefpath = self.filepath
        print('fsx_modeldefpath =',bpy.context.scene.fsx_modeldefpath)
        
        try:
            tree = etree.parse(bpy.context.scene.fsx_modeldefpath)

[...]

Then open Blender, open the system console (Window->Toggle System Console) and initialize the SDK. Right before the error messages you should get a line printing out the modeldef.xml path. Something like:

fsx_modeldefpath = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\ [...]'

Does this path match the path to your actual modeldef.xml?

 

[Pyscen]

Blender should always start up with Administrative Rights.

For this to happen you need to right-click on the Blender Icon. Click on "Properties". From there, click on the "Compatibilities" and click on "Run this program as an administrator". Click on "Apply" and then 'OK'. Blender needs full access to the SDK, so running this program as an administrator is necessary. Is the SDK installed in the default location?

Load up Blender - deactivate the plugin and delete the Toolset.
Close Blender - restart Blender and reinstall the Toolset and activate it.

Did you reinstall the SDK? at all while trying to get the toolset to function? If you did you will need to deactivate and delete and reinstall the toolset again.