Can anyone point me in the direction of a good free modeling program other than Blender?
3DS Max is the best, has tons of tutorial for animations, modelling, applying textures, exporting, import,ect...
get yourself the free version of xsi (now autodesk) softimage and you're set.
Great thats sort of what I was looking for. Its free and pretty straight forward from fist impressions, havent read up on the licensing yet though but will soon. Thx. Also if anyones interested, here is a link below to the dl. I would suggest moddb as a foreign site had this with users complaining of spyware.
[URL="http://www.moddb.com/downloads/autodesk-softimage-mod-tool-75"][URL="http://www.moddb.com/downloads/autodesk-softimage-mod-tool-75"][url]http://www.moddb.com/downloads/autodesk-softimage-mod-tool-75[/URL][/URL][/URL]
ver Actually me and Ivan make all Unreal Weapons and stuff with Maya, as Maya is the program the devs use too. And actuall you can make nice stuff with it.
BTW there's a PLE (Personal Learing Adition) for free but it's a bit older, but for a beginner it's really enough. You won't really notice the difference.
This is no longer available. Also, xsi softimage has a watermark and there are no tutorials for the newer version... Little tired of the work around so after all this Im sticking with Blender. Its a no bs program thats free to use.
Gmax