If you find bugs, please report them on the sourceforge tracker, along with a .blend or .nif that caused the error and a brief description of how to reproduce the error. Although bugs are exterminated as much as possible, it is unlikely that they have all been found.
This release adds two big new features:
Numerous bugs have been fixed as well: check the changelog for details.
The quick-start guide describes how to prepare your textures and how you can use the scripts. The guide also lists the limitations of the scripts, known issues, and workarounds for some issues.
Note: on Windows, use 32-bit versions of Blender and Python. (The 64-bit version of Python lacks xml parsing which is essential for the scripts to work.)
This version of the scripts should keep working with newer versions of Blender 2.4x and Python 2.6.x (but not Python 3.x.x). At the moment of writing this readme, the following were used during development of the scripts:
First, make sure you have Python and PyFFI installed! Also, if you installed Blender using the .exe installer, you're best off using the Blender NIF Scripts .exe installer. If you installed Blender from a .zip, then you should download the .zip, extract its contents, and do one of the following:
cmd.exe
. A console window pops up. In the console, cd
to the location where you extracted the files. Now call install.bat but pass the Blender directory (the directory where your blender.exe resides) as a first argument, between quotes, for instance
install.bat "C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\blender-svn"
C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\blender-svn\.blender\scripts
Restart Blender, and the options to import and export NIF files will appear in the File-Import and File-Export menu's.
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