Importing in Blender issues

[Annabelle]

I'm new to all this Blender, Python, PyPRP world and from what I've read already, it might be hard for me to get an answer since you're not giving much info anymore on how to import age into blender. Anyway, I will ask my question might have a response if I don't ask I won't know.

Here are my steps :

I open Blender (version 2.45) and get a nice cube to play with.

I select file then import then PyPRP then the option single.prp then good directory let say URU ABM then I choose one of the many .prp files out there. I'm trying to follow the Chacal's steps to locate the collision wall in my Relto. It works for exactly 249 seconds. That what it says to me each time : done in 249 seconds.

OK great!!! marvelous ... now what???? Where is my personal age ??? Why I'm still keeping my cube?

I know I should have a file with this extent .blend. I just keep and keep searching everywhere and still I dont see it.

I'm just freaking out : why choosing Blender anyway...I just don't get it : what about this 3-buttons mouse? I have 4 mice at home and there is none with 3 buttons and for the num pad...wow marvelous!!! if you have a laptop it is so nice all the combinaison of keys to be able to move my cube zoom in and out anime it modify it multiply it whatever.

Well I'm kidding here ... Blender does good 3D but the user interface is not quite friendly with me. Might have to be more patient which I'm not.

The only good thing about all this is that now when I visit a fan age, I can see all the hard work done behind it. For now, I could only create an age called "Freaking Cubes" made with multiple cubes and some other strange designs derived from the initial cube. This all sounds like the Philosophal Stone, the primary cube that creates it all like in the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey from Kubrick

So with all that said, could someone help me with this matter : After being able to succesfully import a .prp file into blender, where can I find the .blend which have been made and saved somewhere in my C: I suppose? It is always there that some mysterious files disappear not in my other discs

Thank you very much

[kaelisebonrai]

Well, its in the same blend file as you imported, but, it is in a different scene, named for the .prp =) (up the top of your blender window =) )

[tachzusamm]

I just don't get it : what about this 3-buttons mouse? I have 4 mice at home and there is none with 3 buttons and ...

If one of those mice has a scroll wheel: Try to press it down. Most wheels work (hopefully in your case as well) as the third (middle/center) button.

[Chacal]

Annabelle, after importing the .blend file does not exist yet on your disk, because you have to save it.

As for seeing your Age in Blender, you probably have to scroll around with your center mouse button (or pushing on the wheel as tach said) before you can see it. Or maybe zoom in or out.
The reason for this is your initial viewpoint is probably at 0,0,0 by default, and the Age you imported is possibly not at 0,0,0.
I haven't imported Ages for a long time, so i don't remember about scenes, but it sounds a likely cause.

[GPNMilano]

Kaelis is correct. At the top of your window in Blender there should be a pull down box that says "Scene" if you click on that it'll give you two options. One is to start a new scene, the other, once you imported a prp, is another scene with the name of that prp. If you click on that one you'll see the imported stuff in the blender viewport.

[Annabelle]

Ok Thank you very much/merci beaucoup to all of you, I might not be able to try this out before the end of september, maybe the begining of october, I have so much to do this month. I will remember this topic when I will have more time to give a good look at it.

My mice unfortunately are all from Logitech and their wheels aren't clickable

[Pavitra]

On some systems, pressing the right and left mouse buttons together can send a middle-button-click event.

[Chacal]

Annabelle, go to your options in Blender and check that the button "emulate 3 button mouse" is pressed.