I found this: Blender 3D

[Busta Mods]

I found this open source program Blender 3D that looks really great.

Site:
http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.htmlI've downloaded it and as a noob to modelling it took reletively little time to learn the program with the help of this wikibook. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
Since it's open source, you can download plugins and python scripts to run inside the app. u can also make ur own plugins using python or make changes to the source of the app. http://www.python.org

Hopefully sum1 who knows how will make a halo pc/ce/xbox/2 plugin that will be useful for modeling for halo.

[KiwiBird]

That's what I use to make ALL my Halo CE models and other models. I jsut started using 3DS Max and it's much easier than Blender, but not as fast.

[rossmum]

Milkshape phails by default. So beating it is nothing big, although blender does look pretty cool.

There must already be like, 5 topics on this...

[StrikerMuncher]

I have been a Blender user for over a year, but just got into Halo modding, so I'm set.

(don't mean to spam the topic, but here's one of my recent creations with Blender...)

yea, it's not done yet...

[j0shua029]

I remember you showed me that one a while ago strike, it looks 250% better now! GOOD JOB...

B13ND3R ROX MY SOX

[[cc]z@nd!]

yeah, blender's old.

@ striker = nice helmet! scene's sorta lacking, so that brings it down a bit, but it's a nice render.

[StrikerMuncher]

The helm is unfinished, it was a test render for something I was building for my school. Then my school pissed me off, so I quit, lol.

[UberNube]

How the Hell do you use it. I have been able to get some simple stuff made, but the movement is horrifically painful at best, and it has unnescesarilly large numbers of features. I find I'm so swamped with random, advanced tools which are of no use to me, that I can't use the simple stuff. The tutorials are... lacking, so if any of you could point me to some "more to the point" tutorials that would help loads. It looks like a good program, but I can't make much more that a simple cube in this, while I made 50% of a map on my first attempt in G-Max. I won't change programs until I can at least make a basic building with this.

[xANTHRAXx]

how do you work this damn thing im a noob to modling

[SnaFuBAR]

DO try google and DO NOT bump topics.

[xANTHRAXx]

ok muh bad