CDK in bad location

I’ve been trying for two days to download this CDK, but no matter where I put it, it always says bad location

The string for the file path is too long, there’s a character limit. As I had to do, installed the game to (my D drive where I do my work) for the shortest path. I keep hitting issues installing CDK to the Steam version because file paths are too long. My solution was to install the standalone (non-Steam) version.

Before:
D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\War Thunder\WarThunderCDK

After:
D:\WarThunder\WarThunderCDK

I got past that error, but when loading some missions I now keep getting animation errors when turning on Show Units Assets and it’s driving me up the wall

Thank you for the advice, will try in the morning (it’s very late)
I hope you fix that error soon