Blender - is there any easier to use alternative for simple content?

[fruxo]

@cyaoeu;514047

It’s $200 per year for the indie version. And if you think Blender is hard I doubt you’ll like Houdini.

For Blender you should use left click to select and bind the keys for the normal modeling tools so they’re close together. Stuff like grab/scale/rotate, extrude, make face, box select, loop cut and slide, edge slide, vertex/face selection, smooth should be close together, I have them on the left part of the keyboard. You’ve also got stuff like loop select on alt+select click I think and axis constraints on x/y/z when grabbing vertices and so on. I guess it’s not easy, but it’s fast and efficient once you learn the keys.

For the towers I would use bones, that way you can have a whole tower object with a rig instead of a bunch of separate tower parts which can easily turn into a mess.

By indie version, you mean “Maya lt”, right? Yeah, I mentioned that earlier, but $260 per year (localized prices) is too much I think. And I don’t think there is a cheap version of 3ds max, but let me know if I’ve missed something.

I’m sure Blender had great capabilities, but getting to the point where you are would take a long time. By then, maybe I’ll appreciate it more or maybe I won’t. For now though, I really did not enjoy working in blender. I rather pay a small amount and use a program I get more joy out of right from the start instead of torturing myself for no real reason. Maybe Houdini isn’t easier, but maybe it makes more sense to me like someone mentioned. Who knows. It’s worth a try with the free version.

Thanks for answering the bonus question (the only one so far to do so I think). Yeah, even though I’ve never done anything like this before, what your are saying makes sense and is along the same tracks as I was thinking.