3D Model Software

[johnvanvliet]

Wings3D is still around ?
dose it still save in 8.3 file name format ?

blender can be a bit complex and it dose take some time to get comfortable using it
BUT
so dose Maya and 3d max
or on the rendering end of things Pixar's renderfarm software


for MOST things i consider youtube videos less than worthless
with the exception of some of the blender videos
-- warning there ARE a lot of VERY BAD blender videos so......

then practice and use the skills in a different way -- mix things up and see what you can do

this will take time .Give your self about a year for the basics
by then you will have the keyboard shortcuts and procedures memorized

i work mostly with imaging data from spacecraft like the Dawn images from Ceres
-- all rendered in Blender nodes using cycles
-- using a heightmap as a displacement modifier



the first 3 above images are from this
-- 8 bit copy of the 32 bit float tiff


or artistic concepts for real asteroids and KBO's in this solarsystem
2016 H03 -- asteroid
2015_RR245 -- kbo




now blender CAN handle openstreatmap data and there is a Gis fork of blender and a Qgis plugin

a old test called ArchoPlanet
https://github.com/snovvfall/ArchoPlanet



blender gis
https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS