Purcasing a modeller

I am thinking about finally going 3d. Could some people give me thier feelings on various modellers and advise me on which one is the best for my money? Thanks. I spelled Purchasing wrong- Of course

The cheap and cheerful solution is Cartography Shop for levels and MilkShape3D for characters.

I use both and am very happy with them.

Yes,

Milkshape is an excellent tool - if a little fiddly to begin with. Milkshape allows you to animate too.

For levels I like Cartography Shop or you could try Maplet, it is free now so you could try that.

IPete2.

Yeah, i figured maplet or cartography shop would do the trick for levals and i had a demo of milkshape (before it expired) and i wasn't sure if it was good to just buy the full copy or go with something else. Thanks guys!

Erm.. what about Blender and Wings 3D for value?

I'm a milkshaper, I think it's great! Wings is worth a download, I personally don't find it that useful but you can make some great shapes with it. Blenders is a love or hate thing, I hate... many love. Download and have a go.

K, thanks, i have blender and I'm not too crazy about it. Kinda hard to use. I will look into this Wings3d.

i've been using milkshape for a few years now and i like it a lot... it has a large community too. look into fragmotion also. its a new program that looks promising at www.fragmosoft.com .

K, thanks i will check that out DQ

"Fragmotion" looks good for Character Animation. Personally I use "CharacterFX" since I puchased it some time ago. There is also "PaceMaker" (see toolbox), that is free and very nice.

I have got Pacemaker already I was thinking about the CharacterFX and I havent heard of the Fragmotion berfor. Geez, theres so many good stuff out there, gonna be hard to choose.

If you can stretch to $109 then Silo3D is worth a look as well:
http://www.nevercenter.com/

I'd recommend XSI, can be bought for $495.

i've used character fx extensively before. its good, don't get me wrong, but its support seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Thanks for the info DQ and sorry $500 is a little out of range thanks though

Don't forget my favourite chappie:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=68

DeleD

Large!

Thanks, I downloaded that a while ago (i thinks)

Sil0 Milkshape and Maplet will do the trick.Silo is very competent and workflow is great.But no animation...hence Milkshape.