If you're on a budget and want a fairly easy learning curve, you might want to try DoGA CGA as a designer and Metasequoia LE as the model tweaking tool.
I recently wrote up a three part tutorial that walks you through nearly everything you need to do to create models for SEV/StarFury.
Well, i'm coming from a background of using Moray, which is somewhat advanced. Doga... I've heard that its relative simplistic. I do want some good quality, but I'll look into that. Thanks.
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Well, my .X plugin still has some bugs to fix, at least if you want to use 3D textures... I'll have to get around to finishing those off sometime - I've fixed a few but it seems there are still more to deal with
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