Help importing PIEs to Blender.

[Carme Taika]

I've been trying everything I can think of, but I still cannot get the Python Scripts to work that are supposed to Import and Export .PIEs to/from blender for viewing/editing.

whatever .PIE is, it's a dead file format; outside of Warzone 2100 it doesn't exist anymore, making it approaching impossible to find anything about it.

Any help would be appreciated.

(If you need to know for Compatability reasons; I run Windows XP on my computer)

[i-NoD]

Scripts should work fine. What's the problem exactly?
Do you have Python installation that is corresponding with your Blender?

[stiv]

whatever .PIE is, it's a dead file format;

Hardly. It is used in Warzone 2100, you know. And it's rather nice as a file format, easy to both parse and write. The PIE format is described here:
http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/PIE_format
Trunk is using PIE 3, the 2.3 releases are using PIE 2.

You can get the latest versions of the Blender PIE import/export scripts here:
http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/1584

If you need help, please provide something more specific than "it's not working".

[MaNGusT]

all - http://developer.wz2100.net/browser/trunk/tools/blender
2 updated scripts http://developer.wz2100.net/attachment/ ... lender.zip

put files in the ..\blender-2.49b-win64-python26\.blender\scripts folder, also you need to download and install Python. http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.4/

Install guide:
1) install python
2) install blender
3) put scripts files in the scripts folder(Pie exporter, importer etc.)
4) launch blender
5) enjoy

[Carme Taika]

Thanks ManGust!
That worked, Blender finally recognized my installed Python;
So now I can use the scripts

[Andrie]

I know this is a old post but I don't want to make a new one!
I have
Blender 2.63
Python 2.7.3
Windows 7 x64
Please help I just can't get it to work!

[Jorzi]

Nowadays we have WMIT. Export models as .obj and import to blender.
If you still want to run the old blender script you will need blender 2.49

[ODDity]

Andrie, no scripts written for Blender 2.49 will work in 2.5+ because of the major API changes and recently Blender 2.63 integrates BMesh which changes mesh API structure further.

The script needs re-writing from scratch really, something I am keen to do and have started work on, but it's a long way from finishing because I only just start to learn python

[stiv]

You want Blender 2.49 (aka Old Blender) to run the PIE scripts.

You also want the version of Python that Blender says it was compiled with (see message on the console or run Blender from a terminal). Likely this is Python 2.5.x or 2.6.x, depending. Do not worry about the minor version numbers (the .x part)
Blender wants the version it was compiled with. Nothing else will work.

Note: in addition to having a new Python API, New Blender (2.63) also uses Python 3. Happily, Blender comes with its own copy now.