Attached Link: http://www.wings3d.com

Hey folks, Wings3D is the modeller I've always been looking for. Nearly every week new features and updates and soooooooooooo easy to use. All my recent uploads in the free section for Vue were modelled using Wings3D! How do you like them? Please send critics! ;-) Bernie P.S. I add again the link for the Wings3d homepage.

Love the castle packs and so. I toyed a bit with it as well. But its not een easy prog. regards Myske.

Glad you're having so much success with it, Bernie! :D

Hello Bernie, I will soon try your Wings3D program because I like to test modelers. But I have one remark concerning the link to download : it's difficult to find the "Download Wings 3D 0.90 for Windows" which is "hidden" on the website. I wish you a lot of courage to continue your work. Yves

Hi Yves, I hope you do not think that I am the developper of Wings3D -I'm just a stupid - and okay loving - user - who btw was until now not intelligent enough to use other modelers with their tons of opportunities in thousends of often silly and not understandable iconized menues. (I already thought that I should better learn to read egyptian hieroglyphs for understanding the meaning of these icons. LOL!) The download stuff can be found at the more or less left bottom of the site - possibly not the best position: 1. You have to download and install "erlang" - the language of the prog. Very big download of 25 MB or something but you have do it only once. 2. Download the prog and install it (only some 800 KB), btw you should often go there because the developpers are very diligent. You can find updates and new features really nearly twice a week. 3. Also have a look at the plugins part and at the part which is on the site right below the "News". The things there are very nice and real "must have": import of adobe illustrator files, import of text, export of vrml format etc. That Wings3D can import and export 3ds and obj. files without any problems is already a basic fact! And just a hint here: I am using Wings3D with 2 mouses (or is it also "mice" with our tiny PC helpers LOL!). With a normal 2 button serial wheel mouse I manipulate the objects, faces and vertices. With the other mouse - a USB graphic table one with 3 buttons - I use the middle button for changing the view point. This can be done paralell to manipulating!!! Very nice! ;-) Bernie (whom are already growing wings -LOL!)

Thank's Bernie , :) I saw yesterday that I had to download a file of >20Mb , so I think I will not download it :( since I have only a V90 modem). But concerning your method for the use of Wings3D, LOL , I imagine you have also a Joystick, a wheel, or such a device in addition of the 2 mouses. Yves

Dear Yves, No, I'm sorry I have no joystick but nature gave me another thumb! LOL

I'm glad you like it so much Bernie :) If anyone is interested in getting into sub-d modeling, Wings is certainly the best deal going. The biggest caveat is that 3D isn't easy; you have to learn the tools through trial and error. While Wings has the easiest interface, and advanced tools/functions found in no other freeware, it lacks a manual. I own the Wings forum, and we do have a section on the manual in development, as well as plenty of help with questions. It's now on a lot of pro 3D seats; and Bay Raitt and others of the LOTR crew are using it, praising it, and participating in the forum. BTW - greetings to all of you! I'm Mike Owen, and while I'm ancient in rendering, I'm new to Vue, and am as excited with it as Bernie is of Wings! Once I get caught up with my realworld docket I'll start sticking up some vobs for y'all to play with. Been lurking for awhile, and this's a nice community :) almost forgot! Wings Forum

Welcome Mike! We look forward to seeing what you come up with and/or for Vue! :)

Finally I have downloaded all the files and will try it soon ! Yves

Attached Link: http://www.shapemagic.com

If someone is looking for an easy to use 3D modeler, you might check out Shape Magic. It doesn't necessarily replace other modelers (I designed it for ease of use), but you can make fairly complex shapes without much effort. I posted some example images earlier tonight that shows its capabilities. It's also inexpensive ($10). Rich