Need help learning 3d computer modeling

[avers]

Hi guys, I want to learn how to do 3d modeling so i can help people out with mods and stuff, I have wings 3d and I have seen some online tutorials on YouTube, but none have been helpful. So anyone who can do 3d modeling, can u please help me learn how to model?

[Joefour]

Check out the free program Blender. There are tons of tutorials on the net (including Youtube and Vimeo) for it and also several free courses. And...for being free, it's utterly amazing what it can do. Just be warned, it's difficult to learn, but it's worth the trouble. I can post the link if you are interested.

[avers]

Originally Posted by Joefour

Check out the free program Blender. There are tons of tutorials on the net (including Youtube and Vimeo) for it and also several free courses. And...for being free, it's utterly amazing what it can do. Just be warned, it's difficult to learn, but it's worth the trouble. I can post the link if you are interested.

Post the link and I'll check it out.

[Joefour]

Originally Posted by avers

Post the link and I'll check it out.

Here is their main site. www.blender.org.

This is the free course I went through. I would recommend it to anyone starting out. Step by step instruction, with projects and PDF tutorials as well as video stuff. http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html The guy is a professor at Tufts University.

I would not recommend downloading and installing the latest version of the program without first making sure your machine can handle it. The latest version won't run on older versions of Windows, and quite frankly, gobbles computer memory like crazy. You can download from them all the older versions up to the newest. They are up to version 2.7x or something. I'm still using ver. 2.66.
I would venture to say that if your machine can run SH3, you can run one of the older versions quite easily, but that's just my guess.

After you have looked at it, PM me and let me know what you think.