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Lightwave or Blender?? I need to know
Adamskini
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can somebody pls tell me whats best between the lightwave and blender??? (if thats the right names)
and can u tell me how long it would take me to learn all this texturin stuff from scratch....i.e is it harder than learning to do HTML..which i can do.
anyways...from reading the other posts i have seen that there is some competition between the two camps of lightwave users and blender users!!!
so knock urselfs out while tryin to convince me of which to use!!!
p.s what are the commands for doin the wierd smily faces... [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
and can u tell me how long it would take me to learn all this texturin stuff from scratch....i.e is it harder than learning to do HTML..which i can do.
anyways...from reading the other posts i have seen that there is some competition between the two camps of lightwave users and blender users!!!
so knock urselfs out while tryin to convince me of which to use!!!
p.s what are the commands for doin the wierd smily faces... [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
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Blender on the other hand is free, a mojor plus, and can be downloaded from [url="http://www.blender.nl"]www.blender.nl[/url]
I have tutorials on my site, [url="http://www.b5blender.com"]www.b5blender.com[/url]
and there are others at [url="http://www.blendermania.com"]www.blendermania.com[/url]
As for the smilies? Click "Smilies Legend" at the left of the screen when typing a new message.
hope this helps!
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FYI, Lightwave3D is a leading professional 3D software, Blender is a freeware 3D software.
- PJH
[b]Competition???
FYI, Lightwave3D is a leading professional 3D software, Blender is a freeware 3D software.
- PJH[/b][/quote]
I agree!!
But it's still too fuc*** expensive!!
Inspire 3d is made by Newtek, the company who develops lightwave. It is almost exactly like lightwave, but missing key features that make people buy lightwave. it is absolutely fine for the average computer user, and for the most part, the professional would be the only one to really notice a major difference. A really nice thing, though, is that you can pretty much make up for these problems either by free or inexpensive plugins [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
There are also other options,like getting older versions of Lightwave. I'm pretty sure a used lightwave 5.6 copy could be acquired for anywhere above $1,000...
There are other options like 3dsmax, Truespace, etc. but I personally find lightwave and inspire 3d to be above these all (Yes, I have tried truespace, and toyed with 3dsmax)
There's also bryce, but that is really only for terrain-type things...
anyways, I'd suggest you stick with lightwave, inspire 3d, or one of the other stated programs, but if you must, go with blender. it has it's plus (free), but that's about it.
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i dont have all that dollars so maybe ill go with that blender...although it should be fun tryin to learn from scratch (but u all did it that way).
P.S LIMP BIZKIT R ROCKIN THE SET....(just bought there album, many smiles) [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
I would like to know where LW was at version 2.x!
Oh, and blender 2.x has the ablity to make games!
Besides, LW'ers Rather spend ~2,000 then read a few tuts! [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/tongue.gif[/img]
(no offence, BTW. ) [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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"The man with his head stuck in a blender"
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"E-gad Brain brilliant! oh, wait, no, if mice were meant to fly they'd have been born with little bags of peanuts." *WHACK!* "Pinky, you are a little bag of peanuts"
i got the 2.1 version first but it jumped so i thought that it had a bug or just wouldnt work on my com...so i got the 1.8 version but it jumps too!!!
anyway...ive got the basic blender tut from A2597's site and when i get home from uni today ill give it a go...or atleast try to cause BUFFY's on tonite!!! mmmmmmmm [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
I've got a site of meshes!
I've got proof of Blender's power, the Newly available Babylon Station mesh, etc
Anyway, it's your choice. We can't sway you one way or the other OK?
now that that's out of the way, USE BLENDER!!!!
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many thnks all [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
many thnks to all and a special mention to a guy called scott from blender who had kindly set up a site with wonderful lamon term help [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://www.firstones.com/forums/smile.gif[/img]
so now im off to do that tut by A2597
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"The man with his head stuck in a blender"
[url="http://www.b5blender.com"]http://www.b5blender.com[/url] The site for making B5 renders with Blender.
"E-gad Brain brilliant! oh, wait, no, if mice were meant to fly they'd have been born with little bags of peanuts." *WHACK!* "Pinky, you are a little bag of peanuts"
The reson for Lightwave is very good.
Milkshape 3d is very easy, Has UV Teaxting stuff in it and it cost like 20$ U.S and its a Low Polygon modeler too. If you have the money go for lightwave
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