I'm going to put my vote in for blender also. I started with 3d studio max but couldn't afford the upgrade and the old version didn't work on my new computer so I had to give that up. Then I switched to Wings. It's a nice program but I have trouble wrapping my head around subdivision modeling for some of the more complex things I wanted to make. So I switched to Blender as it's also free (Does anyone see a pattern here?) I can already do most of what I could in wings and some of what I could in max and some things I couldn't do in either. I could probably do a lot more if the interface was more intuitive. I'm not one that likes keyboard shortcuts. I prefer a bunch of menus, but that's just me. And yes, the uvmapping in blender is super easy. It was one of the things that got me using it more.

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