what application for 3d character...??

[crivipro]

what application for 3d character animation do you recomend me to use with irrlicht and what file 3d character format?
If it is free much better!

Thanks in advance!

[fmx]

there are plenty of packages you could try, but I'm sure that Blender is most powerful FREE application you could try.

.B3D and .X are probably your best bet for skinned-boned animated characters, or .MD2 for the simplest vertex-animated characters

[arras]

Character FX was released for free. Its good even if bit aged animation software.

[vermeer]

Blender all the way. Have a test of 2.48a....

heck am even doing all texturing with and workflow pretty non linear, fixing mesh, which as well fix automatically uvs as I go 3d and 2d painting the textures...

I even am an owner of license of CFX...trust me...CFX was extremely nice and cheap for the moment. Blender now is better in the long and short run...

hard to learn, yep. But these days, no more than any 3D package... still pretty different to th eother UIs (is easier to adapt between max and maya, yet not so much with blender, xsi or LW, different beasts, imo... )

and yep, b3d, or x. Still think md5 is superior format, but...!

[gogo]

Buy Maya or 3Dmax.

[BloodInch]

ok for me ^^ LW, blender ,maya , Metasequoia, gmax, XSI mod tools

Look for free Blender is very good , xsi mod tools in stand by in this moment .

In a first time blender is confused because port be linux , but you can make all
for animation Character FX

Im designer

For texturing not need used photoshop , you have .paint or artweaver if you have a graphic tablet

Graphic tablet use one trust A4 (lats model) price 100 € very very good , not need to use wacom more expensive for same work

Its my "recomendation"

Nicolas

[crivipro]

thanks guys, usefull information

[B@z]

hah a metasequoia user!

i'm using metasequoia + milkshape for animation.
but milkshape is a piece of crap, so i think i should learn character FX...

[Mel]

Or learn how to use blender

[B@z]

nope, that's impossible for me.
i'm not an artist, dont have so much time and patience to learn a difficult modelling program xD