Found the bug. its due creating the ini-file.
the error appears after 'open index' and bfi is loaded. the created ini file looks like this ( my system with my selections for path/folders)
Code:
[Dirs]
Project=F:\sh3_mod\terrain mod\projecthelgoland
i exchange only the extractor.exe and kept my old ini file and worked with it, so the error didn'T appeared here. So the ini-file needs to look like this. then it works fine.
Code:
[Dirs]
Project=F:\sh3_mod\terrain mod\projecthelgoland
Datafiledir=F:\sh3_mod\terrain mod\
in the new ini parameter
Datafiledir=F:\sh3_mod\terrain mod\ is missing.
temp way to solve it , copy paste the line here and fix it to ur local setting for path ( target directory where the working TerrainData files located in).
@ ref if i remember correctly there was a first dialog to select the datafile folder. its missing now, dunno if u took it out or not. i don't have the old release anymore, so i couldn't double check it.