Free (or Cheap) Tool for doing morphing?

Hi all,

Are there any free (or less than US$100) Tool for doing morphing?
e.g. I want to do an animation from a cube to a sphere (both with texture)
keyframe 1 : a cube
keyframe 30: a sphere.
The program can auto interpolate the frames in between and save as .3ds (.x or .b3d). Then I could use "LoadAnimMesh" to display these 30 frames.

Thanks in advance.
Sammy
:)

You can do this easily in "3D Studio Max" and the "B3D Pipeline".
http://www.onigirl.com/pipeline
http://www.onigirl.com/pipeline/Exporting_Morphs.htm

*Slaps Beaker with a 3D Studio Max pricetag* ;)

*Slaps Peter Scheutz with some 3D Studio Max students-pricetags* ;)

*Slaps Ojay as students-pricetags is 4X the top price requested (or only for 1 term).

I read this:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=55526
..and thought that he had access to 3D Studio. Maybe I'm wrong.

There is also doing it in code:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1232

3D Studio Max is an incredible piece of software, from what I have read. But, the price is incredible, too, and affordable only for well-heeled dudes with deep pockets, or companies/professionals. I wish I was a student so I could pick it up for *only* $400-500USD (depending on where you buy it).

But, addressing the question raised, couln't that morph from a cube to a sphere, be done in reverse with native Blitz commands? What I mean is, start with a sphere, and use vertex commands to deform it until it becomes a cube?

Maybe some of you other guys who are more familiar with the commands could flesh out what I'm describing?

Hi Beaker,

www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1232
The code is no longer valid for downloading.

Thanks
Sammy
:)

How about some nifty vetex work with Milkshape? It frame tweens, but not morph style.

BUT, all these tools do atart out with a problem, idea, and solution . Make one?