I try exporting meshes made in Blender to LightWave. It worked before... But now I only get messages like the attached one [though I have Python installed on my machine], or simply nothing-and Blender just disappears from my screen. This depends of version used [2.44 grumbles about struct module while older vers just crash]. Anyway, I looked at the d/load page and found no info if I should get Python and in what version. Any help needed, or I will loose results of half-year work!! I currently run B 2.41, 2.42a or 2.44a on XP HE PL.

I know... Another question form a series "nothing works and nobody knows why". But this really is how Blender behaves on my puters... I tested it on four totally different machines and it never worked as predictably and usefully as C4D, LW, or even AoI. Now I will be probably buried under a hip of stones thrown by B enthusiasts;) And I suspect this is why its popularity doesnt rise as quickly as it could.

Silgrin, from what I can see you don't have python 2.5+ installed, hence the error, you need to download and install any variant of python in 2.5 series, I'm currently using 2.5.1 and the exporter works. You can run python 2.4 series and 2.5 series along side each other with no errors so no need to un-install the old...

Thx - it works; seems B 2.44 doesn`t see older Pythons at all - there should be any warning on the download page, like before. Still curious what caused older B`s to crash on a task they performed seamlessly before... Damn.

Now I have another kind of trouble... but should overcome this. Showing just for your fun:)

Lol, looks some strange data stream there!

Try exporting to a different location.

Heh... I`m afraid it`s caused by the object itself, rather than by the location. I always had problems with C4D->B->LW workflow when it came to non point-modeled geometry. I will just re-model this rather clumsy object in Blender and export it to LW. This will save both polycount and file work trouble:)

Thx for your advices. I havent expected the LW exporter to be a Python script:P ...Though I do have Python installed. Pity Blender page doesnt clearly point out it requires 2.51.

Yeah, there was a fair amount of discussion at a few forums about the need for 2.5 python install - with previous blender drops you could work with 99% functionality and the wrong python...