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Originally Posted by madgamer2000
Sounds like gmax prolly isnt the solution then. Have you tried downloading any of the other free 3d editor tools that are out there?
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I also have Blender, but it really confuses me with all those buttons. I haven't even been successful in finding how to get out of a demo without killing the program. This is one that needs some study with the manual. I would have to check the Blender page again but I believe they publish their API set which means a person could write an exporter. I also believe that people have written some of the more popular exporters such as 3DS, OBJ, LWO, MD2/MD3. Blender is free.
Hash's Animator is almost free -- low price. Their claim to fame is that's it's fairly easy to create objects. People have written plugins for all sorts of system. Animation is very good.
Milkshape, almost free. I think its about $25. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the other tools have. Lots of conversion plugins. A low count poly modeler, can display animation but animation tools are fairly weak. Has SDK for writing plugins.
Truespace. There is a free version available -- or at least was a couple of years ago. Don't know much about their SDK or animation.
Lightwave 6.5 is on a special price of $800 but it is only going to last a few more days. It's a very good price if you were going to buy Lightwave anyway. Well documented file format.
One of the other products, Maya I believe, is going to be free as a personal edition in February. Going to have the same problem as Gmax.
that's it for off the top of my head. Used to be some low poly modelers for Quake, but I don't know if they are still around.