Originally posted by monsoontide
Thanks for the offer Yadu -will get back to you in a week or so once my Map is finished (Release date NOV 1st)
Never heard of Lightwave!!!
It's been used to animate all sorts of things you may have seen including R2D2 flying through the droid factory on Geonosis!
There is a demo version available from
http://www.lightwave3d.com/)
(It's a full version but the number of points/polygons is restricted - The full version retails around US$1595!!!)
Check out the Gallery!
There is also a tutorial on using LIGHTWAVE to build stuff for UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003.
Anyways it's a fantastic modeling program - I don't find it so obscure as Maya or 3DSMAX. Objects are easily portable to other formats.
Monsoontide.
this is what u said...... so i thought that there was a demo. :(