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Hey, I've loads of tutorials which cover programming in DB, but what about the rest... are there any tutors on how to create models right and how to texturize them right, maybe even about music effects (i.e. how to make them)...
Are there any tutorials covering those things (there should be by my opinion )

Rich has promised a game programming forum, so when that gets added there'll no doubt be long thoery discussions like at RGT.

Really though, your sorta on your own - tutorials are often about half as usefull as simply playing with the software. It's a case of choosing the right software too. I mostly use:

Rhino3D (not cheap, but it gleams with coolness)
3DSMax (not cheap, but very handy)
CharacterFX (£20, very easy to use bone animation package - a vital addition to budget modelling)
PSP (£50, second to Adobe Photoshop in terms of userbase and features at the price - easier to use and learn that Photoshop too)
Genius mini tablet (Little pen thingy for drawing, only £20 but makes a huge difference)

Avoid using too much free software because quite frankly, most of it is free for a reason. Milkshape is huge, you'd get tutorials for anything you want to do in it, and it's a mere £20. I'd suggest getting Milkshape and PSP before anything else because the sooner you learn modelling the better, it is a necessary evil to know a bit of modelling, if not a lot of modelling. Animation and texturing are best left until you can model a bit, then there's a helluva lot of tutorials available. You can animate and texture inside Milkshape, although I like to use CharacterFX to animate and a decent texture mapper like Lith or 3DS Max.

Sound effects can be downloaded, or even recorded but often you'll find that you want to edit the sound. Editing sound is really something that you can practice and get better at, experiment in a freebie sound editor. CoolEditPro is awesome but not free, Nero Wave Editor is pretty good, and it can neatly convert between .wav and .mp3 - I'd say it was a good place to start learning. Nero Wave Editor is part of Nero Burning Rom, which you may well already have as it's supplied with several CDRW drives.


Van-B

another nice sound program is "goldwave"... its shareware, and its fantastic!

Van B has pretty much it nailed. I'd like to put in a good word for DoGA CGA as a model designer simply because some folks just can't model worth beans.

DoGA CGA comes in easy to digest lessons and is dirt simple to use. But, it is not a true low poly modeller like MS3D. On the bright side, it is free (you only have to register if you want to make AVI movies or sequential stills) and it exports to the .X format. It's kind of like virtual technics or legos in usage.

I use DoGA, Metasequoia LE, and Milkshape 3D as my primary 3D tools.
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TAZ (unofficial DoGA guru and nice guy)

http://www.doga.co.jp/english

1. Choose your modeling tool
2. Look deep in its help ...firsth thing you should do before anything else.
3. Look oficial website for any kind of documentation and tutorials.
4. Look at the links section of official website.
5. Search internet for tutorials -use Google or Copernik etc...

this is the way you can get most of the info you search. There is lot of tutorials on web for most of the modeling tools.

Damn Van b, you know a lot!

Zircher: I have Doga too