Ah, this part wasn’t clear to me. It should definitely work with Bforartists 1 when it works with Blender 2.79. So that sounds like a bug. We unfortunately cannot fix addons, this is behind our scopes. But you could have a look into the console if you can see an error message popping up.
To ask again, have you tried it with Blender 2.6x? Does the textures show up there?