3D Newbie, Using Blender.

[Guitar_Hero]

I try using blender, but i can never start, i either get confused, or bored.
i have tried blender for 2 weeks now and i have yet to even make something simple, other than the default cube, does anyone actually use blender here? I Can't afford any of the simpler commercial 3d Programs, can i get any help?
How do i even set up blueprints?

Oh and BTW on this computer, when i put my mouse on the left side of screen, this happens >>> http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4...pwitdisah1.png

[docmushu]

interesting, what kinda of video card do you have? and is your computer up to date with updates and such?

Blender was too hard for me to get into, so i downloaded a 30 day trail if 3Ds Max 9.. there is also Maya, which is free.

look, after 3 days i've been able to run circles around Blender, like you i spent hours on end trying to figure out blender and only got frustrated..

http://www.smcars.net/forums/3d-stud...g-efforts.html <- i'm no expect, but if i can learn how to do this, and be able to get this far in little as four days, the 30 is a really treat.

[Guitar_Hero]

nVidia GeForce 4 MX, Absolutely terrible video card, and i never new maya was free O_O maybe what i found was a scam.

[tom120934]

Never see this topic before. So sorry for answering lately.

About using blueprints in Blender, I wrote some times ago a tutorial about it :
Pixels or Atoms ?

Definitely, Maya and 3DS Max are NOT free software. Blender is free, both as free beer and as free speech. There is a large community about it. See blender.org - Home and BlenderNation as starting points.

Here in SMCars, there are a few regular Blender users. I'm one So you can get some feedback for sure.

About a GeForce4MX, I used it (one integrated on mainboard) for many years, it's pretty enough to display some thousands of polys in Blender interface. As CG card is NEVER used for rendering, it's not a big problem.