this is your problem. 2.46 broke alot of scripts including the ones it ships with! Use 2.45.
Ok this helped. I changed to 2.45 and then tried the same model and it didn't seem to work, same error which was...
Compiled with Python version 2.5.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
info :Starting ...
info :Importing MD3 model: C:\Documents and Settings\****\Desktop\v_ppsh_a
nim.md3
info :Shader path name: C:\Documents and Settings\****\Desktop\
info :Model name: v_ppsh_anim
info :Header Information
info :Ident: IDP3
info :Version: 15
info :Name:
info :Flags: 0
info :Number of Frames: 123
info :Number of Tags: 8
info :Number of Surfaces: 0
info :Number of Skins: 0
info :Offset Frames: 108
info :Offset Tags: 6996
info :Offset Surfaces: 117204
info :Offset end: 117204
info :
scene.link(ob) deprecated!
use scene.objects.link(ob) instead
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 257, in FileSelectorCallback
File "<string>", line 218, in Import
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'surface' referenced before assignment
I was confused, so I decided to try a different model and it seemed to work perfectly. So I have no idea what's the problem with this model.
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