After a couple years of procrastination and writing down ideas for mods I decided to finally start making some. I decided to start with one of the easiest ones, and it would require me to make a custom model. Figured it'd be good practice.

I updated blender, downloaded the nif scripts, and a few of the other tools mentioned on the wiki. However each and every time I tried to do the import/export .nif in blender it gave me the error saying the dll and .py files weren't there when in fact, they were. I downloaded different versions of python and blender (based on a few forum posts I found via google) to no avail.

I have since completely uninstalled Blender, Nifscope, the Nif scripts, and all versions of Python on my computer.

Several of the file versions specifically mentioned in several walkthroughs on how to get this working are no longer available for download, so I'm not really sure what will and won't work at this point.

Can someone please correct my blunder?

(Normally I'd just continue digging around to find the answer myself, but I'm tired and frustrated and just want to get it done. (Also Sourceforge and the Blender website are being amazingly slow for me today for some reason, further wearing on my patience.)

On a semi relevant side note, is Blender generally the way to go, or would 3dsmax, Lightwave, or Maya be better in the long run (or in the short run for someone just starting out for that matter)?

What operating system do you use, and is it 32, or 64 bit.

Blender seems to be the most common tool. I don't see much on Maya, and 3dsMax isn't free...... There are many good tutorial out there for Blender as well.

XP 32bit.

I also found the bundles on TESNexus so gonna test that out tonight.

Let us know if that works.

blender bundles?

bahaha....they would be out of date as pyffi and nifscripts are constantly updated as new bugs are reported.

Python2.6
Blender4.9b
Latest Pyffi
Latest NifScripts

install in the order and it should be all good.