What modeling program to use?

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What modeling program to use?

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what program should I use to make models and what not.

Please Please Please! put a link so I can go and grab the program instead of surfing google with no hope of finding it.

Thank you!
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Post by zegh »

im not a modeller, but arent the 3D Studio Max programs kinda universal tools for this kind of modelmaking?
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If you have lots of money. Blender is also a leading tool, and is free/opensource.
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Here's a link, if you still afraid to use google ;) http://www.blender.org/

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So I can use Blender for morrowind?

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So Blender will work with morrowind, and I dont need any other files? Thank you for your help so far
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... Good luck. I HATE modeling. I just don't undertand how Blender works. I tried. I failed. I did interiors.
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Did you try to follow step by step tutorials? Learning blender without tutorials or detailed user guides is impossible for human beings
PoHa: how can we best this trio of trouble? who will save us from this menace of sub-par models? what will we do?
PoHa: I know! we'll shoot an Aro at them
Aro: you have only one Aro missile!
PoHa: yes, but its heat seeking and quite possibly indestructible

How to do not become a modeller - by Stryker:
[00:13:]Stryker: no tutorial, no no no
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I managed to make a ship without having a peek on a single tutorial. But it does explain why my UV maps suck.
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You are not a human being, you are an insane estonian dog. You do not count.
PoHa: how can we best this trio of trouble? who will save us from this menace of sub-par models? what will we do?
PoHa: I know! we'll shoot an Aro at them
Aro: you have only one Aro missile!
PoHa: yes, but its heat seeking and quite possibly indestructible

How to do not become a modeller - by Stryker:
[00:13:]Stryker: no tutorial, no no no
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Barleon is a dog, not me. Get your facts straight.
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Post by Greybeard »

Back on topic . . .

I used Max back when I was making "stuff" for Morrowind. There was really no other way especially when making armor and clothes for BB. But I switched to Blender for Oblivion, and found that it has a lot of nice features.
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Post by bnelo12 »

Use blender because its free and can somebody make a tuturial on how to add collision data in nif scope.
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the CS Wiki is your friend:

[url=http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Blender/Custom_Collision]blender custom collision[/url]
[url=http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/NifSkope:_Adding_Collision_Model]Collision in NifSkope[/url]
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Sorry

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You can't just download it. You need to buy 3D studio MAX, which is massively expensive. Sorry.
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Post by Thrignar Fraxix »

This thread was long dead and your post only stated the obvious.

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