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110 months ago by
Grone

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Hey can someone list a bunch of 3D modeling tools? Thanks

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110 months ago by
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there's one in here somewhere :)

http://www.minerwars.com/ManualFor3DModelContributors.aspx

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110 months ago by
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•3ds Max - they offer 30-day trial. Internet is full of video tutorials.
•Blender - free and a lot of tutorials.
•Softimage - they offer 30-day trial. Internet is full of video tutorials.
•Softimage XSI Mod Tool - free Softimage for non-commercial games. I haven't read the license.
•Gmax - free edition. This is like 3ds Max but limited to game development. We never used it but it might be OK
•Maya - they offer 30-day trial. Internet is full of video tutorials.
•Lightview - they offer 30-day trial. Internet is full of video tutorials.

this is from the link above. if you go with blender I can send you some links for some helpful stuff.

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110 months ago by
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Yeah, I think i'm going with Blender. My school has all the software for it so I can work on it where ever I want.

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110 months ago by
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I use Blender all the time and love it. I know this won't matter for modeling, but for rendering really well you should look into Yafaray. http://www.yafaray.org/

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110 months ago by
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Well I was about to say that my friend uses Blender and loves it, but I see he's already posted >.> *looks up*

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110 months ago by
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I jsut got blender...and guess what? it sucks for me. more than half the keys it says to sue dont work, and suddenly the vertices im holding will jerk. what should i do.....? i want to amke some models for ships here...

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110 months ago by
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try asking in the blender forums, maybe there are some tweeks that you can use to get things more stable.

learning blender is a really good thing, lots of professional projects use it. being open source it's probably never going to have as clean of a UI as 3ds max or Maya, but being open source also usually translates into a better customizable UI.

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110 months ago by
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chebar, i am going to get blender an try modeling to.

Edit: here is a tutorial i found http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Basic-Modelling-Tutorial/63011

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110 months ago by
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these vids are on an older version of blender, but I found them helpful
http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

here is another helpful site with some vids
http://blenderunderground.com/

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109 months ago by
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if your into subdiv modeling (freeform modeling) use wings3d ;) its fast, really fast.

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109 months ago by
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Might be worth mentioning you can download a free educational version of Maya 2011 + other auto-desk software. Its the full version only difference is u cant use it for commercial purposes.

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95 months ago by
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Out of interest can google sketchup be used to create ships for this game???

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95 months ago by
MarekRosa
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iichiversii,

probably yes (it needs to support export to FBX file format).

See: http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114380

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95 months ago by
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@iichiversii

One of our best modelers at Infinity uses Sketch-Up for all his stuff. A brilliant example of his work is featured in Infinity's 2010 tech demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7XhaTGDYg&feature=BFa&list=PLF3A4DF219DD6CE3A&lf=view_all

(It's the fighter, not the station.)

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