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buy sketchup pro. it has an export to the 3ds format and it's eseay to make maps with it, plus google warehouse has a ton of free models from all catagories.

This is a pretty old topic to post in. It looks like its only a few days old but it's from 2009.

Don't worry, innocent mistake, just try to take a look at the last post dates, i know it can be tough to do that on a forum you just found since everything is new to you

hallsofvallhalla wrote:haha yeah 3ds max is fail in my opnion, i mean sure its powerful but waaaaaaayyyy overrated.

Maya isnt too bad but hella expensive.

yhea i thougnh so too in the Beginning, but then i found like a ton of cool features that can make your model look really slick and Professional with out so much work. check out 3ds max modifires on youtube.

Guys, Ive recently found out that I do not need to have leet drawing skills to do modelling. I've decided to try Blender for now, my question is - Will it be easy or rought transition from Blender to Maya/Max/Zbrush later on? Should I dedicated all my time to learning one of those straight away or should I try first with Blender?

Personally I use Modo 601 for the modeling and ZBrush for the texture painting, and sculpting. Blender is a relatively good software specially for the price (free ) however it doesn't have a all the tools nor the quality of the tools payed software have.

3D software you may want to check:
Houdini: http://www.sidefx.com/
Softimage: http://www.autodesk.com/softimage
Cinema 4d: http://maxon.net
Lightwave: https://www.lightwave3d.com/
Modo 601: http://www.luxology.com/modo/

Personally I don't like Max at all, I find it not only overrated but also, sub par for many things. Yet many uses it. Again as any other tool, the tool is just one part, but without a good artist it will do nothing, and a good artist will be able to do amazing things with basically any of those tools. It's more a question of what kind of workflow suit you better, what kind of image you want to do, and of course your budget.

a_bertrand wrote:Personally I use Modo 601 for the modeling and ZBrush for the texture painting, and sculpting. Blender is a relatively good software specially for the price (free ) however it doesn't have a all the tools nor the quality of the tools payed software have.

3D software you may want to check:
Houdini: http://www.sidefx.com/
Softimage: http://www.autodesk.com/softimage
Cinema 4d: http://maxon.net
Lightwave: https://www.lightwave3d.com/
Modo 601: http://www.luxology.com/modo/

Personally I don't like Max at all, I find it not only overrated but also, sub par for many things. Yet many uses it. Again as any other tool, the tool is just one part, but without a good artist it will do nothing, and a good artist will be able to do amazing things with basically any of those tools. It's more a question of what kind of workflow suit you better, what kind of image you want to do, and of course your budget.

Seems like I should start with Blender first and learn the basics