Does anyone have any good recommendations to a modelling program other than Wings or Meshwork? Wings is choppy on my computer, and Meshwork is just for basic stuff. I dunno. I guess for now I'll be playing around with Cinema 4D, but I'm clueless with textures in Cinema, because I'm so used to how meshwork does it.
Blender is a great free modeller and multipurpose 3D thingy. If you invest time in how to use it (not intuative for the beginner, but efficent and fast with a user that knows how to use it) then it is a very powerful tool.
Cheetah3D is one of the cheaper modellers, and is rather cool, and intuative to beginners. Very good stuff is possible with that, and it's highly recommended.
I have heard great things of ZBrush, as an organic modeller, with a different type of modelling technique, and a system to have two models being modelled at once, one high poly and one low poly, with the low poly having the high poly detail applied in bump maps. Very effective.
Eovia's Hexagon looks immense too, and is definitely worth checking out.
The defacto standard of modelling is Maya, but that requires an arm and a leg, and if you can afford that then you can probably afford a large scale engine (Unreal 2, 3, Unity Pro, some goddamn version of Torque, Duke Nukem forever...) so, it's unlikely to help you.
Haha. Like I could afford Maya. I'm [lacking a sufficient income]!
But thanks alot, I'll be sure to check all of them out. I tried blender once, but decided it was too time consuming. Maybe I'll try it again sometime. :P
indiepunc Wrote:Haha. Like I could afford Maya. I'm 13!
Will people
Please stop using that as an excuse!
It makes onlookers
immediately have a certain disregard for the community.
God am I glad that I'm not 13 :|
Let's put it this way: Most people who are using Dim3 now are reletively young and can't fford 13,000$ programs. Rofl...
socksy Wrote:Will people Please stop using that as an excuse!
It makes onlookers immediately have a certain disregard for the community.
God am I glad that I'm not 13 :|
Hey, start young, right? :P
teh1ghool Wrote:Let's put it this way: Most people who are using Dim3 now are reletively young and can't fford 13,000$ programs. Rofl...
$2000, £1500. I only kept maya in the list because any list of 3D modellers on the mac should include it...
socksy Wrote:teh1ghool Wrote:Let's put it this way: Most people who are using Dim3 now are reletively young and can't fford 13,000$ programs. Rofl...
$2000, £1500. I only kept maya in the list because any list of 3D modellers on the mac should include it...
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ind...ID=6761454
^^^7,000$ for teh best.
3dsMAX is the 2,000$ one...
Who said anything about the Unlimited version?
Noone. :D
PS: Maya is also really hard to learn... I've tried! >.<