Need Advise Please

[bob_arctor]

Hi im the yunger brother of bob, u can call me "egle"

 

i want to start makeing models and maps and stuff but i dont know realy where and how to start. so i thougth im come to the darkmod. what programs should i buy and would run with the maps if i sent them in???

 

I have got hl2 SDK and can use that , also i can use cadcam so i wonderd what programs would be best for me to get.

 

 

Well if any1 got any advise to me il love to hear it.

 

( btw i know im a noob at this lol)

 

egle out

[Fingernail]

Lightwave, 3DS Max, Maya - expensive and commercial

 

Blender - free and open source

 

for maps, you need Doom 3. Find a tutorial of how to launch the editor, it's just a command line switch.

[FishFace]

For another apparently good 3D modeller, check out Wings. I haven't tried it as much as blender but lots of people recommend it

[bob_arctor]

Bob here, natch:

 

I thought he wanted to try modelling. I told him he couldn't make maps, far too hard, but a clothesstand or something model he could learn to do. Foolish boy. Also forgive his poor and lazy spelling; he is lazy and dylexic, and uses "lol" and smilies etc. terribly. I.e. at all. If this were TTLG he would have been flamed off the board by now.

 

So Blender is compatible with doom3, i.e. you can import models from it into doom3?

[Fingernail]

Doom 3 supports .ASE and .LWO models. That's 3DS Max's Ascii scene export format, and Lightwave's standard model format.

[OrbWeaver]

So Blender is compatible with doom3, i.e. you can import models from it into doom3?

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Doom 3 supports .ASE and .LWO models. That's 3DS Max's Ascii scene export format, and Lightwave's standard model format.

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...both of which can be exported to from Blender (to fill in the missing link )