Models
well i created some models let me hear what you think
To be honest, milkshape is not a very good choice to learn how to model .. it only supports many game-related fileformats, that can be very usefull ..
To learn modelling, i would recommend Gmax, a special free version of 3D Studio Max, very easy to use.
http://www4.discreet.com/gmax/gmax.php?id=901
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
Wings 3D
Another nice piece of software is the open scource modeller Wings, inspired by the legendary Nendo/Mirai Software..
http://www.wings3d.com/
This one is very different in handling, but offerst great subdiv modelling, great to create highresmeshes for Nmaps.
other alternatives are:
Caligari TrueSpace
An outdated version of Caligari TrueSpace 3.2, still very much morer powerfull than milkshape.
http://forms.caligari.com/forms/ts3all_free.html
Blender 3D
This piece is freeware and offers a big community, plugins and tutorials, maybe the best freeware 3D package !!!
http://www.blender3d.com/
After choosing a better software, you will also find tutorials on how to unwrap UVs.
To learn modelling, i would recommend Gmax, a special free version of 3D Studio Max, very easy to use.
http://www4.discreet.com/gmax/gmax.php?id=901
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
Wings 3D
Another nice piece of software is the open scource modeller Wings, inspired by the legendary Nendo/Mirai Software..
http://www.wings3d.com/
This one is very different in handling, but offerst great subdiv modelling, great to create highresmeshes for Nmaps.
other alternatives are:
Caligari TrueSpace
An outdated version of Caligari TrueSpace 3.2, still very much morer powerfull than milkshape.
http://forms.caligari.com/forms/ts3all_free.html
Blender 3D
This piece is freeware and offers a big community, plugins and tutorials, maybe the best freeware 3D package !!!
http://www.blender3d.com/
After choosing a better software, you will also find tutorials on how to unwrap UVs.
yes wings is great. i use wings to do the basics and milkshape if it needs touchups and sumtime animator for its smoothing stuff. Texturing i use lithunwrap. its free but there is a newer commercial version which is like ultimate unwrap3d or sumthing but lithunwrap is fine. check like fileplanet or sumthing 4 a download.
Im quite sure that lithunwrap is having a manual ?
Otherwise, i suggest that you use google, it should give you a few sites like this:
http://www.morpheus50.karoo.net/LithTUT.html
http://www.kaylon.freeuk.com/lithunwrap.htm
This should help you
Otherwise, i suggest that you use google, it should give you a few sites like this:
http://www.morpheus50.karoo.net/LithTUT.html
http://www.kaylon.freeuk.com/lithunwrap.htm
This should help you
Lightray 3D > rest
I tried 3DMax Demo, GMax and Milkshape 3D but I didn't like them Milkshape was easy but it's a very basic program. 3DS is much too expensive and GMax is basically the same and well I just dont like it.
But I found a program that I use since that. It's very easy and powerful. It's called Lightray 3D and you can find it here!
I tried 3DMax Demo, GMax and Milkshape 3D but I didn't like them Milkshape was easy but it's a very basic program. 3DS is much too expensive and GMax is basically the same and well I just dont like it.
But I found a program that I use since that. It's very easy and powerful. It's called Lightray 3D and you can find it here!
Why dont you guys download the Half-life 2 edition of softimage? Its a hell of a lot better than milkshape or whatever else you use. It will export to the format you need.
http://www.softimage.com/Products/EXP/HL2/
http://www.softimage.com/Products/EXP/HL2/
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