Quake II Modeller is still around somewhere. If you are a student - grab Max or Maya - I personally found Maya to be much easier to use at first glance than Max. If you are not a student and you don't have $7,000 to drop on your hobby, then get Blender. There are exporters for all the major file formats available. Blender…
As much as I enjoy Blender, I would say go ahead and go with Autodesk's tools if you are a student. It is a good idea to know what everyone else in the industry is using, even if you never buy a copy for your personal use. They didn't use to have it free for students, so this is a great opportunity for learning these…
sure they make sense, how are they far apart? they are all reachable by the left hand in standard hand-keyboard posture. " WER" keys, if using standard keyboard finger layout will require use of all 3 fingers, and moving of all 3 fingers, the "srg" approach leaves one finger automatically on the letter, then the other two…
if you cant afford other apps, then well blender is probably the most powerfull full featured free app you can get. abit of warning though. The interface is abit odd although 'efficient' imo once learned, and the hotkeys are much different that other apps, and considered 'non-standard'. But they also make more sense, such…