3D Software?

[martok2112]

My K't'inga


I'm particularly proud of how this turned out:




And what is starship porn without a booty shot?


Components built and textured in Blender, assembled and rendered in iClone 5.5 PRO.

Dammit, now I wanna get iClone 6 PRO with all the advances it has made so I can further improve my models, and get back to reworking my Captain's Logs Declassified movie.

Prior to my computers going bzzzt, I had done tons more stuff, but I don't wanna hijack this thread. Perhaps I'll repost in the main part of the fan-art section.

 

[murby]

I use especially Daz Studio for my 3D works, but also Blender or Sketchup.
See here: http://startreklcars.blogspot.it/search/label/star trek files

 

[dubeau]

I want to try Modo. That look like a nice 3D program but just not sure about a certain number of things, like the interface for example. Gonna give the demo a try.

Update: Difficult interface...small icons and a tons of sub menus, all over the place and not well focused. Will stick with 3dsmax and C4d as my two best.

 

[kennysmith]

To the person who posted the last post on this website i want to give you a thank you for giveing everyone who may like that software for there computer.

 

[kennysmith]

I'm sorry, I know this question has been asked here a million times, but I've never needed to know the answer so I didn't really pay attention. What 3D modeling software does everyone use? I want to *try* to design a couple of ships for a fanfic I'm involved in but I don't have the slightest idea what program to use. I'm probably in way over my head because I have absolutely NO artistic ability whatsoever, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for me, particularly anything that's not too difficult for a complete newbie to figure out, I'd be forever grateful.

to any one who see this i need all of your help in this please?, i am looking for a program that can build or make a star ship on two type of computers of a pc win 7 and a old amiga 2000 with a 68040 cpu. i want a old program that can be a free program on the internet and can work on both computers?.
i do hope you can send me a full link to the website who have this program?.
i am wanting to try to build a star ship of a old enterprise ncc 1701?.
get back to me if you fine this program. here is my page here.

 

[dubeau]

to any one who see this i need all of your help in this please?, i am looking for a program that can build or make a star ship on two type of computers of a pc win 7 and a old amiga 2000 with a 68040 cpu. i want a old program that can be a free program on the internet and can work on both computers?. i do hope you can send me a full link to the website who have this program?.
i am wanting to try to build a star ship of a old enterprise ncc 1701?.
get back to me if you fine this program. here is my page here.

Your specs are very old, especially the Amiga. I don't remember any 3D tools that can work on this. 3D was more around the time of windows 98-XP+, otherwise you had game like the original Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein that were the hit back then. Their tools might be free. Think of gaming for a platform or an era, and by searching the tools used to create them, you might find them available. Otherwise on win7 PC you can use Bryce, sketchup, Daz (free). The easiest one is Cinema 3D in my book.

 

[Tallguy]

Heh. Doom was DOS. Quake was Windows 95.

The Amiga was a leader in 3D at the time (I believe it made Babylon 5).

But no, you're not going to find compatible software for platforms 20 years apart. Never mind the free part.

 

[dubeau]

Heh. Doom was DOS. Quake was Windows 95..

Yes, and those two OS were giving me nightmares with those games. Always crashing and not so fun stuff...They run better from Win 98 and XP, in general. It took some times after those games until we really got some good 3d tools, and they were not free. The quality of the 3D was basic until Unreal (the game). Pretty sure 3D Max was there at version 3 or 4 then...but I was gaming only in that time. But my memory didn't register everything back then...maybe it was better forgetting some...

 

[M2m]

to any one who see this i need all of your help in this please?, i am looking for a program that can build or make a star ship on two type of computers of a pc win 7 and a old amiga 2000 with a 68040 cpu. i want a old program that can be a free program on the internet and can work on both computers?.
i do hope you can send me a full link to the website who have this program?.
i am wanting to try to build a star ship of a old enterprise ncc 1701?.
get back to me if you fine this program. here is my page here.

Babylon 5 (first couple of seasons) was done on amiga and a commercial software called Lightwave 3D by Newtek. I think at that time they used Version 3.5 or so.

The current version is 11.X which runs on Windows and Mac. Not sure if the file formats are compatible.

As a side note lightwave was also used for some of the cgi of DS9.

https://www.lightwave3d.com/buy-lightwave/

 

[Tallguy]

Lightwave is very not free.

 

[M2m]

Lightwave is very not free.

That's why I added the purchase link to my post. I doubt there is a free software which covers Amiga and PC. Also compared to the price of 1994 where it was 4000 EUR the current pricing is really a bargain.

 

[BorgMan]

You might even be better off buying a computer for around $300,- for light modeling work with SketchUp Make or Blender (which are both free), instead of relying on the Amiga. Scrap the might; you are better off. The Amiga is so outdated that you won't find anything for it anymore and even if you do, the tools available are nothing compared to what you can get out of a free package nowadays. Or try the second hand market for an affordable PC on which you can work. Go for something with at least a quadcore and a decent graphics card. If possible, try to pick one with a motherboard that is less than three years old. This will make sure that when and if you have the money, you can upgrade as you go without too much trouble finding compatible components. 8GB RAM will do fine for now, and if you want more: go wild. RAM is pretty cheap nowadays.