Have to do it orthogonally. Which is good practice anyway. Gives you a better understanding of contour and form. You can select vertices in 3D mode, but you still have to model orthogonally......you still model orthogonally in Lightwave, don't you?....I'm asking.
No idea mate, never even opened LW. I'm not having a go at Milkshape honestly, it's what I started with as well but the lack of 3d selection used to do my nut right in. I seem to remember a plugin that sorta worked but it still meant having to jump between the plugin screen and the main app which wasn't ideal. If I was…
Like ElysiumGX said: Save your work often. Another important thing is not to save your model in only one single file. A single file can easily become corrupt, when your 3D program crashes or something. Make a new file everytime you've completed an important step. That way you can always go back to an older version of your…