ValueError String too long blender

[Andytarz]

So I've been trying to mod the lighting inside the laser musket in Fallout 4 where you see the charge and numerous tutorials lead me to try and use blender 2.49b 32-bit.

However what I had to end up searching extra for were the following programs (in order):

Python 2.6.6 32-bit

Blender 2.49b 32-bit (obviously)

PYFFI 2.1.9 (tried 2.1.11 as well) 32-bit

Blender NIF scripts 2.5.9

I would also need to note that although I use a 64-bit computer, I have tried the previous programs in the 64-bit versions and they either didn't help or I ran into the issue where they didn't have compatible NIF scripts for the 2.79c/ upgraded versions of blender.

When I opened blender 2.49b 32-bit, the NIF scripts were installed and I saw the import/export option, but when I navigated to find the NIF with the laser musket, it displayed the following:

Blender NIF Scripts 2.5.9 (running on Blender 249, PyFFI 2.1.9)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\bpymodules\nif_common.py", line 1235, in gui_button_event
self.gui_exit()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\bpymodules\nif_common.py", line 1598, in gui_exit
self.callback(**self.config)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\import\import_nif.py", line 3771, in config_callback
importer = NifImport(**config)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\import\import_nif.py", line 170, in __init__
data.inspect(niffile)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pyffi\formats\nif\__init__.py", line 1286, in inspect
self.header.read(stream, data=self)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pyffi\object_models\xml\struct_.py", line 354, in read
attr_value.read(stream, data)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pyffi\object_models\xml\array.py", line 300, in read
elem.read(stream, data)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pyffi\object_models\common.py", line 691, in read
% (length, stream.tell()))
ValueError: string too long (0x00010000 at 0x0000003A)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Other problems that I've had are I have tried to delete or change the NiNodeLight on the LaserMusket.nif because I heard that to change the ambient lighting I would go to delete that (got the advice on another thread), but fallout 4 either crashes or the mesh isn't affected at all.

I installed BAE and I've configured the pathway to Data/Steam/SteamApps/common/Fallout 4/Data/Meshes/Weapons/LaserMusket to place the nif in, and it still doesn't affect the lighting at all or my game crashes.

After changing the user version from 12 to 11 and user version 2 from 83 to 34, is there anything else I should change/delete?

(Using nifskope 2.0.0 pre-alpha 6)

[deadbeeftffn]

Right now there is no FO4 compatible Blender plugin (And i'm afraid, there never will be).

Changing the version info is a bad thing either. For FO4 User Version should be 12 and User Version 2 is 130. If you change the version info you are asking for trouble. NIFs may have different structures and/or different objects depending on the version info. Changing the version info does not magically adjust the internal structure and if the internal structure of a NIF does not refelct the version info, the game will crash.

I don't know which "NiNodeLight" you are talking about. Unfortunately I can't help you. There is no such thing in the NIF structure nor a NiNode named NiLightNode. Maybe you could be more precise?

Edited April 13, 2019 by deadbeeftffn