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MikeS
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Anyone know of any good 3d modeling programs that will give good results for a space simulation game?

Thank you for your time.
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John H
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Milkshape

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Milkshape !!

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Simple:

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MikeS
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Thanks, I'm trying out milkshape ,and I also found wings 3d which is working well for my spaceships.

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Milkshape is even better! thanks rpg and simple.

I would post my screenshots, but I cannot since I have no webpage to copy from.
oh well.I should be getting one up soon.

I will also soon be announcing my new game that I'm producing, so keep your eyes open.



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one other thing.

Is milkshape a royalty free software, or do you have to pay a certain amount to the company before you sell your title.

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Ask simple- me dunno

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Yeah i guess that is dumb question, probebly does have some royalty thing.Oh, well.Thanks anyway.The trial version of milkshape is good, and i recommend to anyone who is modeling.

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Posted: 31st Mar 2003 00:57 Edited at: 31st Mar 2003 00:59
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Once you have registered Milkshape... you can produce anything ya like, and do what you want with it ( sell your models - use them in commercial games - give them away etc etc etc )

@Brent_Seraphim ..... yeah !! me and Raven have already had this fight !! go check out my website ( still under construction, so just the Projects and Downloads pages are working )

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Posted: 31st Mar 2003 01:09 Edited at: 31st Mar 2003 01:11
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Hey thanks

I checked out your site.
nice graphics and models on your game.

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Yes Milkshape is completely royalty free...Unlike Max(which makes me wonder HTH people can afford to pay 10000 per title for it and still use MS???)

*Also looking for the rolling eyes smiley*

Anyways...

-Milkshape is even better! thanks rpg and simple

BZZZT...Very wrong,none is better since both modelers have very different functions and yes,I am an Wings3D preacher.


Wings3D is a box-modeler and along with it's realtime meshsmooth options and edges/sub-object tools makes it an excellent choice for high detailed models,which is achievable in MS but with a rather longer time PLUS MS calculates it's shading based on triangles,which is very bad for higher polygon modeling if not useless.Now although it can augment it's polycount using it's 'edge smoothing',the tesselation isn't well organised because of those triangles and I never bothered trying to find the right way around or adding manually the detail(real pain),which you basically wouldn't have to do with a modeler made for that purpose,but I think you get the point now right?

Don't go around thinking I don't use MS myself though,just needed to point out that the specificities of some modelers aren't always what the crowd will tell you...If you still need convincing maybe you can have a look at the official website's gallery

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Posted: 31st Mar 2003 17:58
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Thanks for the input actarus.

I myself have just recently tried both wings 3d and milkshape.

Both in my opionion are very easy to use.Wings 3D takes me about 5-10minutes to make a nice spaceship model.

milkshape takes me a little longer, BUT milkshape has an animation feature which might be the big reason to buy.Plus it's royalty free!

I'm not sure if wings 3d is royalty free, yet I suggest either milkshape or wings3d to anyone else who is reading this.

Thanks to all the people who posted ahead, my questions have been anwsered.

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Wings3D is Open-Source

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Thanks for the info.

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Milkshape has a really long way to go. That's probably why Max is so expensive, that and it has a lot more functions and it can render fully. Anyone know how Discreet would know that it's a Max model your selling?

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is do... and i'm not going to say about it again, they can tell we'll leave it at that. (they infact have 2 ways of knowing)

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hehe Use it and lose it

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lmao... i think that should be thier new catchphase, i think i've lost my temper with it everytime i've used it

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lol...Personally,I'd kill to work in the industry so I'd comply to max quite pacifically

Still,Maya(well PLE at least) is the cream while Max is the hardened butter

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wings 3d is free an great for inanimate objects

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you tried the poly modelling in Maya yet Actarus?
christ what i wouldn't give to have that in Max ... but unfortunatly you have to work with splines on the same method flicking between a surface and edit spline, quite annoying way to go about it.

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Of course I tried it and it's wonderful

I even ended up learning a few useful new tricks...I guess that's Maya's freedom

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