I recommend you to have a look at Blender (www.blender.org).
I realy like working with it. I started learning with the wikibook "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro" wich wasn´t completed at that time. But it was already great to learn with it. It seems to be much more finished and very well formated. You can find it here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

You should even take a look at this page: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Manual

To use it together with 3DGS it is best to use the .mdl exporter written by ventilator (thanks! ) you can find it here together with a tutorial (written by ventilator as well^^): http://user.schule.at/go/blender/index.html


After I learned the basics of Blender I liked modelling much more then before. It is a great and very powerfull tool.

Oh and you should definatly go on with modelling.

i'm surprised that it's 50 50 as to weather people think you should stop... really i don't see how they can fully judge from just one model.. i b=vote yes... with a bit of practice you could find your skills improving dramatically...

Btw , there's a lot of tutorials and the like on making architectural modeling and environmental modeling as well , I posted a humanoid vid cause you said if you wanted to keep modeling , and usually for models people refer to characters in game dev , but I guess if you have to ask other people if you should keep doing it , then you prolly shouldnt , because if you liked it and wanted to do it , you wouldnt be asking people if you should , but trying to learn how you can.

Voted YES and not because this model is very good. Just that you don't stop learning. Milkshape has a nice tutorial on how to model a house. Maybe it looks simple, but if you started with modeling in Milkshape (or any other modeling suite). This is one you really need! Use your imagination

I agree. Most people say "i can't draw" when they see me sketching something in school. But the problem is never that you can't draw, the problem is that you might not be looking at references. Even Michaelangelo had reference pics and models, I'm sure. Use reference pictures and tutorials. My first room didn't look any better than your alleyhouse. I don't think anyone's first model looked any better.