Importing from Blender to Unity

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Ok… I basically made a open-top box in Blender. All the faces are pointed in the correct direction. My problem is that when I save it into the Assets folder it shows up as a paper icon instead of a picture of the model itself. It isn’t animated in any way shape or form. It is saved as a ‘.blend’. I know Unity is able to use them by default in it’s Free version… What could I possibly be doing wrong? I’ve watched videos on Youtube to see if that could help me to no avail as all they do is just place the save file in a place in the Assets folder and it works just fine. -.-

Here’s a picture to outline my basic problem.

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Also worth noting is that an error pops up on Unity saying:

“Blender could not convert the .blend file to FBX file.
You need to use Blender 2.45-2.49 or 2.58 and later versions for direct Blender import to work.”

Thing is, I’m using Blender 2.69.

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Try exporting from Blender as fbx and copying that to the Assets folder, instead of putting the blend file there.

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Change to object mode then save, it’s a problem I had a while ago.

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After doing that it stopped being stupid. If that was it or not, thanks. It was driving me nuts.