As the title suggests the War Thunder CDK has now become almost unusable this has been an issue since update Hornet Sting came out on the 18th of March causing major issue any model that was using A2d animation would completely crash the game.
It then took gaijin until the 18th of April to release a patch that would no longer cause this crash however the game would still not play those exported animations while at the same time the newest version of the war thunder CDK was still from November 27th 2024 (and still is as of me writing this) while in the asset viewer just accessing animated models would result in a fatal error to do with gaijin switching from GRP2 to GRP3 and the game would no longer accept animations exported with GRP2.
I was told to wait for gaijin to release an update but that still hasn’t happened.
You cna still release tank models mostly fine, however for aircraft Animations are essential. For example I am working on the Me 262 but due to not being able to make and test animations it’s been quite hard to get work done.
And now to the most recent chapter the update Tusk Force.
In this update gaijin hasn’t just broken user models but also many custom hangar and maps, all that because the game somehow does no longer read or is unable to read the DM/Collision model according to the debug text ingame.
And now we are almost at the next update coming out and that hasn’t even be addressed or communicated. How does it come there are updates for the Opensource CDK but we can’t use that one for War Thunder because it does have war thunders shaders set up.
I have also talked to multiple people that have Working CDKs however those are only allowed to be used by external contractors.
I will make another post later that will talk about another issue with user generated content specifically Models.
Please also excuse any grammar mistakes as I am writing this from my phone.
I made this post to primarily raise awareness both to players as well as the moderators as it seems many don’t know what is going on and think this requires us creators to update our mods.
I did make a fix which is basically just an unmodified user hangar of the default hangar which somehow fixes the issue introduced in Tusk Force. I don’t know why or how.