blender_niftools_addon VS DepotDownloader

I used this plugin to import to blender (also export from blender) https://github.com/niftools/blender_niftools_addon

Use blender and https://github.com/niftools/blender_niftools_addon/releases/tag/v0.0.14

I wish you the best of luck with your ideas, the character meshes are an absolute pain to work with because they're in .nif files, which are a proprietary format. I still haven't quite figured out how to wrangle them myself. But definitely grab Nifskope which can view models. There's also a plugin for Blender that loads in NIF files but it doesn't work with NIF files from Special Edition. So you gotta downgrade them with SSE NIF Optimizer if you want to import them into Blender. I hope this saves you the hours of research I had to do to figure all that out!

Googling the issue only gives me this github page of someone running into a similar issue but has no useful replies. https://github.com/niftools/blender_niftools_addon/issues/496

Basically, I'm trying to use this niftool plugin to make myself a cool Fallout: New Vegas hat. But uhh... it's not working. Error messages below, I cannot parse this and it's clearly an issue with the code of the plugin itself.

however when I tried to import it into Blender 3.4.1 with the Blender Niftools Addon v0.0.14 I get the error log in this image, stating "String Too Long" The few old forums citing this exact issue either offer no solution, or just involve using Blender Niftools Addon v0.0.14 which I already have.

I'm using the blender niftools addon, and when I try to export it says "Some polygons of helmetK not assigned to any body part.The unassigned polygons have been selected in the mesh so they can be easily identified."

(https://github.com/niftools/blender_niftools_addon/releases/tag/v0.0.14) This is the plugin I just found.

Blender is a good choice.Fairly easy to start. You'll need an addon for .NIF importing/exporting,here's the link:https://github.com/niftools/blender_niftools_addon it also supports Oblivion and Skyrim.

There's also DepotDownloader that lets you download anything, including past version, from Steam https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

I use this to download historical versions of a game to help with reverse engineering to archive dialogue trees from a game https://dialogue.destiny.report

I'm not sure how you could just download the launcher. You want the Launcher.exe from this version. A quick google brought up this downloader: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

Steam Depot Downloader (requires DotNet)

Continuing to add to the confusion on the topic by trying to argue that Steam is DRM because you have to buy the game through Steam is counter-productive. (And apparently Steam's client isn't the only browser available.)

Not by Steam means. I don't know if it's still functional (update on last year) but https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader is what you're looking for and you need to learn the DLCs depot number from SteamDB to feed that information into this program.

use this https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

If you are looking for a specific version of the game and you own it on steam you could download it using something like DepotDownloader. An example of this would be downloading the first pubic version of the game

You can still rollback with the help of the DepotDownloader: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader