Modeling and Textures

[Skaruts]

I can also add to this thread a program that is free, but I don't know if it will work at all for this. All I know is that it can export Collada files.
SoftimageXSI Mod Tool 7.5. They will ask you to fill a lame form before you can download, but you can give wrong data and it will accept it. If you don't want to go through that you can also download it from this website from a friend of mine.

Again, I can't garantee it's useful, I'm just sugesting it because it's free, and because it's derived from a great modeling program. This version has no render funcionality tho.

Blender is terrible too, but it is free, so unless you're a student capable of getting a copy of max for free or you happen to have 3000$ lying around, this would probably be the best choice.

If Blender is so terrible then I don't understand how the community has achieved such great quality stuff like this and this and this and these professionals mustn't know anything about 3D modeling at all, and these artists too, and btw the community size must be filled with people that don't have anything else better to do.

My point is, terrible are most other freeware 3D applications. Blender is as terrible or as good as most programs that will cost you quite a few or many precious bills. The only diference is that blender is a growing program that works in a slightly diferent way from most other programs, and that blender, since it's open source, depends on what the developers focus on. This makes it be better at some things and worse at others, and a bit unstable in a few things. But still, anything is pretty much possible with it.

If you compare it to 3DsMax and you say Max is better, I won't say you're wrong. I usualy say that Max has a tool for every need you may have, since this program is a result of it's own evolution throughout many many years of development and improvement. At the same time it looks like a plane's cockpit from a layman's (noob) perspective. Blender is still on it's way to become a masterpiece, but still, as is, it's already a great program. All this without even considering it being free.

And btw, a friend of mine used to prefer blender's UV unwrapping and mapping over 3DsMax's. Even though he didn't like blender very much.

Sry about this but I just thought the word terrible to be a terrible misleading piece of information.