Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. > > Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Blender (www.blender.nl) is a very good tool for 3D-modelling/animation. It is free (as in beer) and not open-source, but version 2.0 will probably be. Currently you have to get a C key to export meshes (this will not be required when 2.0 comes out in July). The idea is that you pay for the manual. There is also a shareware-program called amapi, which you can find on some linux-mirror sites (in linux/modelers, you can probably find more programs like this) POVray is for rendering (you specify a "world" in a POV-ray file-format), and it calculates all kinds of effects (light, fog, reflection, shadow...) -- Felix Natter
