Purcasing a modeller
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| I am thinking about finally going 3d. Could some people give me thier feelings on various modellers and advise me on which one is the best for my money? Thanks. I spelled Purchasing wrong- Of course |
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| The cheap and cheerful solution is Cartography Shop for levels and MilkShape3D for characters. I use both and am very happy with them. |
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| Yes, Milkshape is an excellent tool - if a little fiddly to begin with. Milkshape allows you to animate too. For levels I like Cartography Shop or you could try Maplet, it is free now so you could try that. IPete2. |
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| Yeah, i figured maplet or cartography shop would do the trick for levals and i had a demo of milkshape (before it expired) and i wasn't sure if it was good to just buy the full copy or go with something else. Thanks guys! |
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| Erm.. what about Blender and Wings 3D for value? |
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| I'm a milkshaper, I think it's great! Wings is worth a download, I personally don't find it that useful but you can make some great shapes with it. Blenders is a love or hate thing, I hate... many love. Download and have a go. |
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| K, thanks, i have blender and I'm not too crazy about it. Kinda hard to use. I will look into this Wings3d. |
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| i've been using milkshape for a few years now and i like it a lot... it has a large community too. look into fragmotion also. its a new program that looks promising at www.fragmosoft.com . |
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| K, thanks i will check that out DQ |
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| "Fragmotion" looks good for Character Animation. Personally I use "CharacterFX" since I puchased it some time ago. There is also "PaceMaker" (see toolbox), that is free and very nice. |
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| I have got Pacemaker already I was thinking about the CharacterFX and I havent heard of the Fragmotion berfor. Geez, theres so many good stuff out there, gonna be hard to choose. |
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| If you can stretch to $109 then Silo3D is worth a look as well: http://www.nevercenter.com/ |
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| I'd recommend XSI, can be bought for $495. |
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| i've used character fx extensively before. its good, don't get me wrong, but its support seems to have gone the way of the dodo. |
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| Thanks for the info DQ and sorry $500 is a little out of range thanks though |
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| Don't forget my favourite chappie: http://www.blitzbasic.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=68 DeleD Large! |
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| Thanks, I downloaded that a while ago (i thinks) |
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| Sil0 Milkshape and Maplet will do the trick.Silo is very competent and workflow is great.But no animation...hence Milkshape. |
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