Getting Blender to work

[Flying Pig]

I am now at my wits' and sanity's end with this - can someone give me a simple, step-by-step guide to setting up Blender on 64-bit Vista so that it will modify .nif files?

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

Are you sure you get the right archive i.e. a 64-bit archive and not a 32-bit archive ?

 

[Flying Pig]

Yes - only thing is it gives me a huge error box when I extract it, but the extraction seems to work

 

[Jawa'sRevenge]

Odd it installed just fine on my 64 Vista, have you tried re-downloading it?

But of course my blender can't figure out that I have python installed
Partial functionality is better then none, I guess.

 

[Flintlock1415]

Try posting on the Niftools forum, that's where I went to get the scripts running on my Mac and to raise issues with Civ 4.

 

[Flying Pig]

Odd it installed just fine on my 64 Vista, have you tried re-downloading it?

But of course my blender can't figure out that I have python installed
Partial functionality is better then none, I guess.

That's my problem, except that means it won't read .nif files, which is what I want it for

 

[Jawa'sRevenge]

Perhaps this is an issue that should be brought up with the makers of blender, perhaps they could help, if they don't know nobody knows.

 

[Lord Tirian]

Perhaps this is an issue that should be brought up with the makers of blender, perhaps they could help, if they don't know nobody knows.

But Blender starts fine? You just cannot import .nif-files with the nifscripts?

If Blender starts up, it recognises your Python (it's Python-based, after all). If you just cannot use the nifscript, your Blender probably isn't set up correctly - happened to me as well.

After starting up, click on the button in the lower left corner of the 3D view (the button with the grid on it), then select "User Preferences" in the fly-out menu that appears.

In the User Preferences menu now, select "File Paths" and in the second column (from left), the lowest entry specifies the path to your Python scripts. Enter the path where you installed your nifscripts (for me, that's "C:\Documents and Settings\*my username*\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\").

Then open the fly-out menu in the bottom left corner again, then select "scripts window", then hit "Scripts", select "Update Menus".

Now it should recognize all scripts you installed for it. To make the changes permanent (i.e. show up on every start automatically), select the 3D view from the fly-out menu again (after all, you want this to be the first thing you see after starting Blender) and hit "Ctrl+U" on your keyboard and select the appearing option to save the current setting as default.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Flying Pig]

I tried that and it still doesn't work. I'm going to see if I can get in touch with the makers

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

Show us what your console says too !
I don't own a 64 bit machine but perhaps someone knows.

 

[Jawa'sRevenge]

I may be python based but it can run if no python is installed, it only needs python to run certain plugins which the nif reader is

 

[Flying Pig]

It says it's got the python. I'm doing a total re-install before I start contacting people, just in case

 

[Jawa'sRevenge]

I cured it (I hope)...

Download this

It is a zip not installer...

But when I tried it I said It had python!!!

 

[Flying Pig]

I'm using that. Theoretically, a 32-bit program should work on a 64-bit machine anyway

 

[Jawa'sRevenge]

In theory, but in practice half the time it does not work