I Use Anim8or
www.anim8or.com It's free, and I have succeded in making a few models that worked in Starfury. Although the models need to be converted from .obj or .3ds to .x in some 'other' program. I think I used conv3ds.exe the file converter that comes with the DirectX SDK.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
Cheers!
