3d Modelling Programs!

Gunner Pink · Post by **Gunner Pink** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:04 am

Actually I seem to have found Truespace 3 or 4 free and it's working excellently for me, I'm just having trouble getting TrueGene!

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:55 am

i always had alot of trouble modeling with truespace. i "think" theres a 650 poly limit which is good to keep your models from getting to high poly but can also be annoying

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:06 am

truespace looks too basic to me cos i come from blender,but truegene should be one that site with it.
Its pretty old,cos there is truespace 7(?)out now,so if u can,use blender.

Gunner Pink · Post by **Gunner Pink** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:36 am

Blender is great and all, but it doesn't offer what I desire, which is a simple system you can jump into!

Its great and all and the sculpt mode looks good, but I can't make heads or tails of it and the Tutorials are too much for me.

I'm not 100% Keen on using a high-end tool for something that just doesn't need it!

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:38 am

k,no prob,but u better check wat darkmaster said

MakerOfGames · Post by **MakerOfGames** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:52 am

gameSpace Light has the polygon limit mentioned by darkmaster923, but other than that it is a great modeling program. However, I have found that the installer of a year ago had a glitch that the total polygons in the scene could be 650 witch is contradictory to the 5000 mentioned on the site.

trueSpace 3 is completely free however the UV map tools don't work well. I can't figure out how to map objects with it. Also, its from 1997 or 98, so there is no advanced bone modeling system so all animations must be made by direct deformation or having separate objects to make up the larger objects. EX: foot, lower leg, upper leg, to make an animate-able leg to create a joint based animation.

I am currently in search of a good 3D modeler myself, and I am tempted to try and make sense of blender. I have tried it before but it has a hefty learning curve.

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:20 pm

Blender Tuts
http://terrymorgan.net/download.htm

CTRL-F search blender modeling

gamemakerg · Post by **gamemakerg** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:32 am

I have bleander and it is easy if you learn it BUT someone that knows the python export and import scripts will need to make scripts for exporting to the languge of RF

Voltare · Post by **Voltare** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:06 am

those hike1 tutes are good....read those thoroughly....but.....remember this: getting that into RF requires , for now, Milkshape.

I'm trying, right now....with ,little success, of getting an animated blender model out and into Rf through Gmax.(blender exports to .obj, gmax imports it)

Face it, guys,,,unless you want to "roll your own" game engine, like the guys who made planescape did(using crystal space and its own cal3d importer) you'll-never-make-any-game-with-blender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reasons for this :

1. Unless you have dedicated programmers(like planescape does), you alone will not use blender and make a game engine.
You can not wrangle with blender and then have to wrangle through c++ or VB bugs.
Check out how many people work on planescape( and even, the project that good ol' hike1 up there works on: there's at least 10 on each.)

Then check out the models in both games.....those of you who are expecting to make 3000 polygon blender models are in for quite a shock.And forget about using MakeHuman in any free game engine.I've tried decimating those meshes...and they just get screwed after 8,000.

I know you like blender for its power...etc. but until a .bdy and .mot python script is written, blender is useless for RF.

FragMatic · Post by **FragMatic** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:24 pm

zmodeler

Xenogaska · Post by **Xenogaska** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:03 am

Hey don't be so quick to say blender doesn't work with any 3d engines that are easy to use.

http://devnet.sylphis3d.com/ is a nice engine.

Now in no way am I trying to suggest something instead of reality factory, its just this engine works with blender, so just giving you options.

This is what I switched to, after reality factory got me started.

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:32 am

Cyrstalspace

Xenogaska · Post by **Xenogaska** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:41 am

Just to make a point, crystal space does not support the same level of scripting as sylphis (i think)

Sylphis is about as powerful as the doom3 engine, and used to be about 100 dollars.

Crystal Space is amazing, but more of a programmer engine.

I just thought sylphis might be good for you reality factroy type of people.

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:30 pm

i was just pointing out that there is more than one.