I got a .blend file from a friend and am trying to put the model into the world space. But when I open Unity the .blend file is a “Default Asset” which I can’t use for anything. I’ve attached a picture of what I see when I open Unity if that helps.
Do you not have Blender installed?
I do, but it can’t find Python installed. I was hoping that I wouldn’t need to install Blender to use blender models
I can’t help you there. I never had to worry about that. For me, I’ve always just downloaded Blender and that was that. People seem to have more problems with Blender on Windows; you should search the forum and see if someone else has solved your issue.
You don’t need Blender installed. But you’ll have to have .fbx files manually exported otherwise. Not worth the hassle, when the software is free, and very lightweight, in my opinion.
Blender kicks arse, anyway I have my Python installed in my Local Disk (C: )
Can you at least confirm that .blend files shouldn’t look like that?
They won’t look like that if you have Blender installed and working correctly. Otherwise, they will.
–Eric
Sure. But keep in mind, that if you’re using Blender’s backup system, you will see that “white page” icon, and the file will be useless in Unity, as the extension is not .blend, but .blend1, .blend2, etc.
interesting, thanks for the help
I have this problem too. It only started doing this to me very recently and I have not changed my Unity or Blender installs. I did upgrade to Windows7 a couple weeks ago, but it has worked since then. Does anyone know why it does this? =/
Install the following python link:
http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.6/python-2.6.6rc1.amd64.msi
That didn’t seem to work. I already had some version of Python installed previously and that link didn’t seem to fix it. I haven’t touched anything for a while and all of a sudden it doesn’t work when I import my .blend files. It says blender couldn’t convert my .blend to an fbx file. I have Python and I have Blender… Does this thing just hate me?
I use python 2.7 on windows 7, though it has worked with me on xp as well. I used default installation directories for both blender and python. Blender 2.49 seems to like the latest version of python 2.6.x but like I said I have it running on 2.7. Try uninstalling both programs, then install python, then go get blender make sure you use all default directories and will work.