I need free or cheap milkshape

#1 Blender is free, and can be used to make vehicles and weapons.

Gary (-;

#2 Milkshape.. is.. cheap. lol

#3 Yeah milkshape is pretty darn cheap $15

#4 Look at www.blender.org

Blender is open source (free) and IMO has more functionality than Milkshape.

If you want tutorials there are heaps.

My ones are at
www.users.on.net/~symes/gamedev/videotuts/videotuts.html

#5 Thanks now what is the best one you know of. not 100$ in prise i hope

#6 I hope torque has somthing i could use because it was in the screen shots... i wonder why... well i hope they sell somthing that will help me make "sprites" because im making an online game.

#7 Sprites are not 3D models..

#8 I know i just refur to them as "sprites" because of a program im using

#9 Make sprites with an editor such as MS Paint, Gimp or photoshop...

#10 Can i make 3-d models with torque shader engine

#11 Torque shader engine is an addon to torque which provides the developer with shaders.

The torque package doesnt come with anything that will allow you to make 3d models.

For this, you will need a program like blender, or milkshape. Or if you are rich, maya and 3ds max.

Once you have one of these programs, you need to learn how to use it.

Once you know how to use it, you must add a plugin which allows you to export to the torque standard model format: DTS.

Once you have your DTS file, you can use it in the game engine.

Milkshape is cheap. Even when I was 5 or 6, 25 dollars wasnt too difficult to work up. Just had to mow the lawn a few times.

Blender is free. Its harder to use, but it has advanced features.

-Griff

#12 TSE isn't an "addon to torque " it's a stand alone engine. ;)

"#1 TSE fanboy" :p

#13 Well i need a simple to use proram that won't take years to know how to use. You all had to use a diffrent program? i need to find the easyest one to use.

#14 Justin, before you want to know which program to use I think you need to clearly outline what you expect the given program to do,

I use the following
1 Game Engine = Torque Game Engine (I have TSE also but it isn't ready for everday use)
2 3D Models = Mainly I use blender ( however I rely on Milkshape for quick and dirty work)
3 2D Art, textures and model skins = Gimp ( and paintshop pro)
4 C++ programming = Visual Studio.net 2003
5 Torque Script = Brain Editor ( this isnt torque specific, but i still use it from my 3dgamestudio days)

#15 Blender is super easy, and Nigel Symes has created some excelent tutorials for it. Not sure what his site address is, but his tutorials can be found = Here=

And Blender is at blender.org

#16 When i use blender it looks like "space ship controls". i have never seen anything like it. all the other tutorials i have seen never ell you what button to press. i'll check this one out i guss. i need links for eveything i need because i thought torque came with it.

#17 Thanks Ryan and my site is here www.users.on.net/~symes/gamedev/videotuts/videotuts.html

www.blender.org is prbably also a good place to start

Then follow the links to elYsuin www.elysiun.com/forum/index.php and it's forum

If you search that forum you'll find literally hunderds of video tutorials, flash based tutorials, text tutorials, anwsers to user's problems and tips and tricks.

Also search the blender site using the search button on the front page (bottom right). It searches the official documentation which covers about everything, certainly the basics.

And a tip is that Blender does more than just modelling, animation, sequencing, rendering and a host of other stuff. To that end, if you only want to use it to model, you don't actually need to know all the buttons, and since they are arranged to be separate, just don't click on the animation buttons and you won't have to deal with the animation buttons.

There is mroe than enough information out there to learn, it just takes a little bit of research and time and willingness to learn, but what doesn't heh?

#18 Will pp molder www.ppmodeler.com work?

#19 As long as it exports to a file format that can then be converted into DTS then it should be fine, except for maybe animation.

#20 Translation: be able to import into a dts file.

I don't know.