Should I model with 3DS Max 09?

[Corndogman]

3ds max 8 will most likely give you trouble on vista, your better off using max 9 and up. Bluestreak will work fine with any of them afaik. I guess that's pretty much the end of that discussion....

[legionaire45]

Max 8 works fine of my computer. You need to install the service packs to get it to work.

Use whichever modeling package you feel like; if you really wanted to you could use something free, so long as it has support for .3ds. You'll need to find someone that has a copy of max 8, 9, whatever to export it the game for you. 3DS Max is a very expensive program and I'd recommend taking a look at free stuff first.

[Gwunty]

Bluestreak gives non-existent open edges.

[Advancebo]

^this

Since i started to export using Blitzkrieg, I was able to be more productive.

[RobertGraham]

So what should I use? Blitzkrieg or Bluestreak?

[Ki11a_FTW]

Preferably blitzkrieg , but its only works up to max 9

but if you do any biped rigging, go for bluestreak

[DEElekgolo]

Bluestreak does work. Those of you with your non-existent open edges just need to triangulate your mesh before you export. Convert to editable patch and then convert it back to editable mesh/poly.

[RobertGraham]

Well, I got both for the hell of it. Thanks for the help. Im off to look at some plane modeling tutorials

E: Where do I get Blitzkrieg?

[t3h m00kz]

Bluestreak works with Max 9. Blitzkrieg doesn't. Animation exporter doesn't work, since you can't use Blitzkrieg, but ZTeam's animation exporter works.

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showt...425#post234425

[Gwunty]

Bluestreak does work. Those of you with your non-existent open edges just need to triangulate your mesh before you export. Convert to editable patch and then convert it back to editable mesh/poly.

Guess what we have been doing since bluestreak came out.
exactly that