Decompiled Portal 2 Maps always show this error.

[trisasarex]

I honestly do not know why this issue is happening as I have put all correct VPK's and every time I convert a portal 2 map, this error shows up

To help, the map, I am trying to convert is "sp_a1_wakeup.vmf"
below this is what the Log says.

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Starting VMF2OBJ conversion v2.0.3
[1/5] Reading VPK file(s) and custom content...
[2/5] Reading geometry...
SEVERE: Fatal error: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Expected ':' at line 1 column 1838408 path $.entities[87].connections.

[IAmLexica]

I got a similar "MalformedJsonException" error while converting the 'Apprehension' HL1 map from this GMod addon, but I was surprisingly able to fix it.

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This was the exact output I received:

Starting VMF2OBJ conversion v2.0.3
[1/5] Reading VPK file(s) and custom content...
[2/5] Reading geometry...
SEVERE: Fatal error: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Expected ':' at line 1 column 5926072 path $.entities[1131].slave-in2

I then thought that maybe if it's expecting a colon, I'd just go ahead and insert it myself, thinking that maybe A) a portion of the VMF format might be stored in plaintext, B) whatever was going wrong was in the VMF file itself, was somehow inconsequential for hammer to compile, but too out-of-spec for this program, and C) I could read other parts of the file to figure out proper formatting. Those thoughts were wrong. Turns out the entire VMF format is actually plaintext, and there's (to my knowledge) nothing out-of-spec in the file at all. Go figure.

Anyways, the "line 1 column 5926072" was a red herring, as the first line is literally just "versioninfo", but I was able to identify the part that sparked the flame thanks to the "slave-in2" at the end. Searching for that string sent me to this entity:

entity
{
"id" "148236"
"classname" "multi_manager"
"slave-in2" "1"
"slave-in4" "4"
"slave-in5" "5"
"targetname" "slavesmm"
connections
{
"OnTrigger" "slave-in1�Trigger��0�-1"
"OnTrigger" "slave-in3�Trigger��0�-1"
}
"origin" "-2268 -172 -308"
editor
{
"color" "220 220 220"
"visgroupshown" "1"
"visgroupautoshown" "1"
"logicalpos" "[8500 13000]"
}
}

As far as I'm aware, this entity is just for controlling map logic, and has nothing to do with anything that'd be exported to the OBJ. So, I simply removed the entity, saved, and retried. Worked like a charm, then.

I have no idea why this entity caused an issue with the program, and I don't know Java so I can't really investigate, but my guess is that it converts the VMF format into an intermediate JSON format before producing an OBJ from that, and there's some kind of issue in the first step.