What's your poison?

Steve

Just wondering what people here use for low poly game design?

Max? Maya? Blender?

Personally, I've never used blender but I've done a fair bit in max - however, I'm coming around to using Maya lately.

Just wondering what anyone else's opinions are.

Kyotokid

Maya for me, I've used it since I started and at a few different companies since. Use whatever you're comfortable with

Encrypted Pigeon

Blender for me, tried max and just couldn't take to it.

Steve

Kyotokid wrote: »

Use whatever you're comfortable with

Agree to a point, I've used max mostly to animate high poly stuff exported from inventor for product presentations - and I must say that's fairly handy to achieve. Game (well not really actually 'game' but more map / level / object) design is only something I'm doing as a hobby and Maya seems a bit more friendly for that. I really love how easy is is to align vertices etc.

My biggest gripe with Maya so far is finding stuff - e.g. a texture node on a face on an object with a pile of history...

Jonny Blaze

I suppose it depends how low-poly you want.

I use blender but for a complex model it can be immensely time consuming.

If you have any artistic ability, zbrush allows you to sculpt amazingly detailed models and then decimate them to incredibly low counts while preserving the detail (within reason).

If it's a cartoon styled game or whatever though I would say regular poly modelling with blender is the way to go.

Try www.blendercookie.com for some awesome tutorials for blender.