Hello all,

What is in your opinion the 3d modellings program (or programs) with the most easiest/friendly interface while still being decent/adequate with features? (think of modelling static objects like houses, but also vegetation, weapons and some not to complex actors)

I currently use Blender and a bit MED for extremely simple tasks. Blender is nice but I dont understand its animation part all (even after watching an example video) and would be nice to have a good draw texture straight on 3d model feature. (where UV map is automatically generated, though I understand this is a quite advanced feature to ask for )

Can be paid or free. Tnx

Have you looked at autodesk's Maya LT for indie game devs. Steam has the monthly at $30 , not sure about direct from autodesk - but it include there own Stingray game engine with some big middle-ware and I think motion builder might be in it all(Not sure about the last).
Also from Steam I'm curious about Substance Painter 2 for paint right on the model -> but price is a bit high. Try finding trails of all you'd like to test, I know autodesk does 30 trails.

There are newer cloud based services like Mixamo https://www.mixamo.com/ and AutoDesk Character Generator https://charactergenerator.autodesk.com/ . Which are pay services. But like post here Mixamo is run some kind of special .
- A recent UE4 poll on the subject https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthre...-Light-Wave-Etc

- Modo package with painter tool and on a subscription base like may LT but cheaper ( minus a real full current gen game engine ^- Stringray) http://store.steampowered.com/app/401090/

-- Old wares habit form the very early 2000's left me force to learn and only feel good using 3ds max. But it's not a good deal at the indie level, and I am just able to use the education license for most AutoDesk. LOL- They kind of turn the P2P thing around on my, I'm trained now to only be quick and good with their top price package...lol

Thanks Malice, this is very informative. I am kindy excited for Substance Painter 2, that seems like a perfect tool for drawing on models. I think I will buy that one.

Also I seem to have overlooked some important animation tutorials for Blender (https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Tutorials/Your_First_Animation/2.Animation).

If you do buy it, please review it for us?
I never made it past the UI and interface for Blender

Even played with Maya LT yesterday and had trouble. I locked in 3ds max mode lol.

But to be fair to me, 3ds max and free gmax where really the only choices when I started. Even the old low level program were a pain to work in.

As a added not I'm hearing Adobe FUSE can be used to pull game characters but you'll need another software for poly crunching and poly decimation.
http://www.adobe.com/products/fuse.html

I found some more interesting programs:

MARI indie (http://store.steampowered.com/app/433930/?snr=1_237_querypaginated__103), similar to Substance Painter 2 but a bit broader usage I think, I think you are capped though at only having 6 textures per models (not counting normal maps etc. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukP-dphdXk ).

PD Howler (http://store.steampowered.com/app/336530), this seems like another interesting program, but haven't yet determined if its interesting to create 3d models or e.g. draw on them.

, yeah sure.

You know Substance Painter and their other tools have a trail?
https://www.allegorithmic.com/buy/download