Why do all of my attempts at 3D modelling look like a 3 year old writing his name?

Because you are stubborn and won't look at tutorials, noob.

It only takes 2weeks or less just to get a decent grasp at how things work. So ez.

If you are using blender, just get the Blender Cheat sheet and you will [know / learn / see] all the most used shortcuts. It will come out very handy.

I'll just leave this here: http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php.

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The gallery really doesn't impress me. But it's free so I can't complain. Though what can this do that Blenders renderer can't? I Think I'll stick to pirating Mental Ray or V ray or something.

I can't pirate, so I take what I can get. There's some difference in the way blender and this renders stuff apparently, and I figured someone might like it.

I've seen more impressive things from blenders gallery although the realism might be off it still looks better imo :3

If you want an external renderer, I recommend indigo + the blendigo script (blendigo is used to export to a format indigo supports basically).

DeerWhale

Deerwhale v1.1 + over 9000 hours rendering in photoshop

That whale needs a texture. Something bright, and happy.

I just happened to find an other free 3D modeling tool called K-3D Mug.



It seems like it's a pretty interesting piece of software.

A couple of free 3d modeling software exist. I think another is Wings3D. I hear it's the best for modelling, just modelling though.

There's like over 9000 free modeling softwares, but blender is the best by far. You've also got sketchup, wings, anim8or, and truespace, but they're runners-up to blender.

Or... you can just download a free 3 year trial of ANY autodesk software if you happen to be a Student.

Badaboom badabing. Big mega happy fun time modelling with a REAL piece of software.

That K-3D looks annoyingly basic. I'd hate to have to right click and explore my way through that mess of a 'context-menu'. And it'd be a nightmare to try and find all the functions if you're already used to another piece of software ie. blender/3dsmax/maya. Personally, you would never think to find Inset under the Extrude function, since, they're pretty different.

Nope. I'll just stay with my bad-ass 3D Studio Max. The interface is intuitive, and the 'search help-bar' provides documentation on pretty much any feature I want to learn about instantly. Did I mention how bad-ass it is?

Hey guys, here's a thought. I'm pretty sure all the bickering about which piece of software is better is futile, and it would probably be in everyone's best interest if they just stay on topic. No one is going to convince anyone else to switch to a different 3D program, whether free or not, so the back-and-forth is really, really unnecessary.

Hehehe DevliN. We know this. It's just fun banter. I personally don't give a monkeys' if someone uses Blender or Maya or whatever. I know what I like and that's 3DS Max.

Blender doesn't export texture to the object when rendering, at least not for me for some reason.

You mean, blender doesn't apply the texture to your model when you render? Yer doing it wrong Explain how you're adding the texture to the model.

No fun allowed.

I'm sure he means something else since I've posted renders with textures and he knows I use blender. Or he's just pointing out the fact that he sux and stuff.

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Blender doesn't export texture to the object when rendering, at least not for me for some reason.

You mean, blender doesn't apply the texture to your model when you render? Yer doing it wrong Explain how you're adding the texture to the model.

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Or he's just pointing out the fact that he sux and stuff.

This.

When I tell it to render the model, I don't even get a model, and I'm assuming that even if I did it wouldn't have a texture. The preview shows nothing but a bland, gray model.

Nevermind, figured out what was wrong. Missing a certain file for whatever reason.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 17 2010, 8:52 pm by poison_us.