How-To: Install Blender nifscripts on a Mac

[Flintlock1415]

I didn't know Leopard came with Python 2.5. You shouldn't need to reinstall it then, I had to only because Tiger uses 2.3 python. Just try it out without installing python and tell me if you have any problems.

 

[iggymnrr]

Moot point. 10 days ago I did run the installer for the newer python, according to my bash profile.

 

[joelgerlach]

Hey, thanks for your great tutorial. Now that .nif usage has been updated for Blender 2.5, could you tell me how to install it? I tried your methods for the 2.5 alpha and the python script gave me a series of errors (as opposed to 2.45 which I was using earlier). I used the commons.py file from the Blender 2.5 nif package, but it didn't work. Any ideas? Also, I'm running Snow Leopard.

Thanks!
~Joel

 

[Flintlock1415]

Hmm, I haven't tried installing with the 2.5 alpha, so I'm not sure I can help. I'd ask around at the Niftools forum, as they much more about the inner working of the scripts and Blender than I.

I actually just upgraded to Snow Leopard today, so I'm planning on installing the 2.4.13 scripts with the 2.49b version of Blender. I wonder though if the 2.5 version uses an older (or maybe even newer) version of Python, since its in alpha. I'd post your errors on the Niftools forum though and they can help you out.

 

[Keinpferd]

Thank you, Flintlock! I'm surprised, it's working: Blender 2.49b+Python 3.1.2. Now I'm looking for a good blender tutorial. If you have a recommendation?

 

[DataByne]

Wow! Thank you very much! That was super helpful!

 

[coffee junkie]

Wow! Thank you very much! That was super helpful!

I must have missed something important because I'm still unable to install the pyffi ( 2.1.9 required ) in Blender 2.5.9 on snowleopard

EDIT : After many confused actions ......... I finaly successed with this bundle :


Python : 2.6.6
Pyffi : 2.1.9 ( the last current version )
Blender Nif Scripts : 2.5.7.12 ( the last current version )
Blender : 2.49b

Too bad the niftools still don't support Blender 2.5.x ... One day perhaps ...

 

[DataByne]

I must have missed something important because I'm still unable to install the pyffi ( 2.1.9 required ) in Blender 2.5.9 on snowleopard

To be fair, I originally downloaded all new versions of each file and made a complete mess of it. Though the latest Blender works great, I have yet to be able to open Nif files with it. The instructions that Flintlock gives are only helpful with the older version. Oh well. I'm going to keep trying to get the newer stuff to work (since I have that sickness that drives me to possess all things new and shiny), but I think I may have to acquire more than a collagist's knowledge of Python to do so.

 

[coffee junkie]

I finally found an aswer on the nif tools forum : the nif tools do not work with Blender 2.5.x actually, it is something in development

I hope it will be soon availabla for upper version because I find the last version of Blender much more interesting than the "old" 2.4.x !!!

Try from the beginning with the versions of my previous post and you'll see : it works ! ( I currently do few things with it )

 

[porchy38]

Hey, i just followed all the steps given, except for one. I wasn't sure what version of nifscripts to download, because once I opened the link given, I was redirected to a page where there was no downloadable file. So instead, I downloaded version 2.5.7.12a, as recommended by Coffee Junkie, and then followed all of your steps.
However, when I got to the part to open Nif_common.py, I turned on "Enables python text plugins", and tried to open the file. I got an error message along the lines of:

"Error: .../nif_common.py Failed. File is not a Blender file".

I thought that when I turned on "Enables python text plugins", it would allow me to do this.

Any ideas?

Thank you.