Re: [GD-General] Blender

[Josiah M. <jm...@ma...>]

> > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 06:59:18PM -0600, brian hook wrote:
> > > Anyone use Blender as a modeling tool and have any comments on it,
e.g.
> > > comparing it to LW, Max, Maya, etc.?

I myself am looking for a modelling tool, but it would really be best if it
were free (it's a personal project). It doesn't need to be fancy, but
support for animations would be good. Blender looks promising, but looks
like it is designed for making CG for movies and stuff. How easy is it to
make models for games with it instead?

Does anyone here know of other free modellers that are useable?

> > I use it (with a host of custom back-end scripts) as the geometry and
> > level editor for our upcoming coin-op production. Blender is not without
>
> One might want to take a look at OpenArchitect 3d
> (http://www.openarchitect3d.org) ... Paul Nettle's latest work, which
> plans to be a central environment for content creation, and has a strong
> plugin scheme

That looks pretty nice, but the site doesn't make it too clear what all the
program can do without having to write a plugin yourself to do it. It seems
that OpenArchitect had a plugin that did all sorts of cool stuff, but nobody
is allowed to use it.