Installation Of Blender : !!! Some Source Forge links are outdated. The actual installation algorhytm of NifTools newest versions(edit 17.02.2016) is totally altered. See the discussion tab!!! NOTE: If you experience a crash during startup of Blender and you're not running Windows Vista, you may need to download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package Install Blender and the required support files per the following instructions. This was documented on a Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) machine but is designed to work well for Vista, Win7, WinXP in either 32-bit or 64-bit editions. NOTE: You must use the 32-bit versions of all the software until all components have 64-bit editions. You cannot mix-n-match. Install PythonRequired for PYFFI; not for Blender itself. Source: Python.Org (If you download from Python.org, do not install versions of Python that do not match what Blender requires. If you install newer versions, you may have problems getting the older versions to work right) Run Python-2.6.5.msi Setup - Select "Install for all users" and click Next Select Destination - Click Next to accept default of C:\Python26\ Customize Python - Click Next to accept defaults Setup Complete - Click Finish Install BlenderGMA Network Source : Blender.Org (download from Blender.org only if you want to experiment with new versions which may or may not even work with the necessary files to produce NIFs) Run Blender 2.49b.exe Welcome - Click Next License Agreement - Click I Agree Choose Components - Click Next to accept defaults Choose Location - Change from C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender to C:\Apps\Blender and click Next Specify User Data - Select "Use Installation Directory" and click Next Required System DLL Check - Click OK Setup Complete - Click Finish Make sure Blend starts up correctly and then close Blender.If Blender fails to start, install MS Visual C++ 2008 runtime
