CultziBolzi Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 What Modelling Program do you use? i use Zmodeler2 What do you use, is there better program than zmodeler2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomperson139 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Zmodeler2 is probably the best one to use to make models for Emergency 4. All the others require you to have Zmodeler2 to be able to convert the model file into .v3o anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CultziBolzi Posted February 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Good, I Use Zmodeler2 and Its Pretty Good. Iwe just learned how to use polygons etc bechause before i just used Quads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami89E1234 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Quads are one of the polygon options Were you referring to a Grid?I use Zmodeler2 as well. One of the easiest modeling programs to learn/use and the best for EM4. Maya is the best program in the world but it costs like $5000 so... lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CultziBolzi Posted February 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Lol 5000$ But i mean if i did a car model i didnt move the polygons what is in quad. I Didnt even know how to create polygons now i know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami89E1234 Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Lol that's how I started too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kookas Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 For me, Blender is the best modelling program to use, because I'm used to its interface. For some reason, I picked up Blender very quickly, whilst quite alot of other people complain they don't like its UI. They don't even give it a proper try before they make the judgement that it's difficult to learn. I learned it in two months of extensive use, and improved with a couple of years' practice. The interface is almost completely customisable, right down to the colours and the images used for the GUI...You can't directly export ZModeler or v3o files yet, but exporting 3ds and importing into ZModeler works perfectly, except that you have to flip the model horizontally after you import it for some reason.In terms of creating things, I find Blender's system very easy. I like being able to just use key combinations to do things, instead of going through long, quiz-like menus to get to the function I need. I can just press CTRL+MOUSE1 to create a vertex, F to make an edge or a face between selected vertices, and Ctrl+Tab brings up one simple context menu that lets me choose my selection mode (although it's not hard to change the selection mode in ZModeler either, it's just at the top of the window).Maybe I haven't given ZModeler a proper trial. I only tried it for an hour or two, and didn't get very far. However, I can see it's a very good program. The real bugger is that my screen is only 1024x768 in resolution, which means that ZModeler's interface is really cluttered. Maybe I should buy a widescreen, but they're like £150 and although I do have that kind of money, I don't want to spend it all on that, I am still in school so I don't have a proper income. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami89E1234 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Hmmm... yeah I didn't get Blender or XSI when I had them... I prefer programs where you can actually make polygons easily (i.e. not having to go through a huge process like in XSI, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kookas Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Polygon creation is extremely easy in Blender, you select three or four vertices by shift+clicking each one and press F, and you're done I tried XSI before though, I didn't get that either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoppah Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Zmodeler2 is definately the best program for most people. It's very cheap compared to most other 3D-modelling software and it is the only program with a .v3o plugin. Without Zmodeler2 the EM4 modding community wouldn't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kookas Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Zmodeler2 is definately the best program for most people. It's very cheap compared to most other 3D-modelling software and it is the only program with a .v3o plugin. Without Zmodeler2 the EM4 modding community wouldn't exist.I agree that it is the best program for creating models for most games, as it has the most support for game specific formats and (I think) game-specific objects/setups. However, I wouldn't say it is the best all-round modelling program for most people, I don't mean offence to the creator but being specific to games it has no render function so you can't make fancy photorealistic scenes in it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami89E1234 Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 I love how you can make new plugins for ZM2 as well if you have the SDK. I need to make one for .obj lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CultziBolzi Posted March 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Modelling is cool but i still suck always when i try to make vehicle model theres lots of damn smoothing errors. Why? Theres anything where it would come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
