Anyone use the blender creator program (mac osx). is it any good for being a freebie. or are there better/easier programs for mac cause i checked a lot of the suggested free progs. from the responses i got on my last question and either the trial versions were too large for my 56k ( i don't want to spend 5 days to download) or not mac compat.
so.......anything.
thanks
russ

Blender has a steep learning curve compared to programs like Cinema4D or Bryce, but it's definately worth learning it. Just work through one or two tutorials and soon you'll be pretty fast in it.

Blenders newest versions aren't free anymore. about a year ago they went to a commercial license and started selling blender. prior to that they were open source ( I'll check my cdroms, might have a copy of the sources for it for linux, not much difference for mac osx from linux version) newest version I have is commercial license and it has become a game generator, can no longer model as well as it used to.

The newest Blender versions are still free. They introduced a version for web exports ("Blender Publisher"), that one was not for free, but the regular Blender "Creator" has a price of $0 for years now.

Thanks, i was uncertain that it cost zero $$ cuz i had to go through a few sites to find it and only on the home page was it talked about as the "keepin it free 3d" seems to be a small zip err sit file for a program though.

(forgot to go in depth with my last re-response)2 questions, this will make me out to be a complete jackass though ..1. it seems to be a small file size for a program (along the lines of the uv mappers file size zip/sit) did i just get the up grade. 2.just how much can i do with it (wireframe mesh or beyond then go into an art prog. for the rest) thanks, me.

Don't be irritated by the size - Blender is less than 2MB. It is very powerful for such a small and $0 app: It can do regular mesh modelling, subdivisions, metaballs, bones, particles and has a radiosity shader, Python scripting and more features that I don't remember from the top of my head. It's definately worth learning it.

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Be forewarned that the preferred way of "Blender"ing is to use a three-button mouse. You would be well advised to pick up the official Blender 2 User Guide - you can get it at Barnes and Noble or Borders Booksellers online. There is, indeed, a steep learning curve - think of Lightwave with all the toolbars located on the bottom of the default quad view. -scara

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