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hey, I'm new to ogre because i just decided to use it to develop a new game idea i've got. i was wondering if there were any free (pref. open source) 3d modeler applications that i can use to build models and animations that can be converted to ogre mesh files.

i currently use art of illusion, which is an open source app, to create models and that can expert to .OBJ lightwave files and i found converters to convert from OBJ to other formats that can be converted to .mesh files, but I'm wondering if there is an easier way or better freeware modeler.

thanks.

you should really search in the wiki, it tells you mostly everything u need to know

blender is the best open source free 3d modeller, its powerfull and many people use it. altho the UI is suposedly hard to get used to, which i didnt really find (altho i havent tried to do anything technical with it)

thanks, i'll check it out. i saw a few other posts on blender too so it sounds like the way to go.

i did look at the ogre wiki but didn't recall anything about blender in it.

http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/AssemblingAToolset
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Tools:_Blender
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/To ... nderImport
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/To ... e_Exporter

http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html

and probably others