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Ok, If this is at the wrong place, I AM SORRY Lol. XD
Well Anyway, Im not sure where to look around THW (Like being lost in a REAL Hive of Bees XD)
So.... If people can link me to a model maker/editor and a bit of a tutorial video or something
(I just want to try Making a model, Even though my predictions are... Terrible XD)
Thank You all
~Sniverr :D :xxd:
EDIT : It's not because im lazy or whatever, I just cant find the right thing at the right time. ^^"
 
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If you are a student...
Autodesk is what all original war models were made in.

if not, Blender is a good choice, and the site has hundreds of tutorials. But it's difficult to port into war 3 (I haven't found a converter yet, the best way is to export as an obj, give it to someone with autodesk, have them import, double check the skinning and then animate)

the other one is Gmax the hive has a converter in it's tool sections.

For simple edits I suggests Magos (also on the hive)
 
A kick-start to model making:
1) Get Magos' War3 Model Editor

2) Do the tutorial for it. (Will teach you basic model editing)

3) Get Oinkerwinkle's vertex modify

4) Do the simple and easy tutorials from top to bottom (you'll learn all the stuff in an evening or two)

You'll learn model editing, scratch modeling (creating stuff from the basic primitives), and UW mapping (fitting a skin to the model).
You can then use these skills with the more versatile MdlVis tool.


For actual model making all you need is
  • Magos' War3 Model Editor
    • for editing materials, importing textures, making particle emitters, nodes, camera, simple mesh editing, etc
  • MdlVis
    • for UW mapping, mesh editing, animating, creating new geometry from scratch, assigning vertices to bones, etc
 
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