by Handshakes » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:03 am
I'm not familiar with how good/bad Milkshape's MDL exporter is, but in general for low poly modeling MS is much preferred (by me) over Blender. I used Milkshape 3D all the time back in the Half-Life modding days and it was a relative dream. Meanwhile, Blender is a hot mess of broken features/tools, and a terribad obtuse interface. It pretends to be Softimage, but that only makes me weep and long to be using XSI (or even Milkshape) that much more.
Then again Blender is free, so I don't complain too loudly. And Leileilol's mdl exporter for Blender works like a charm, so as long as you don't mind fighting Blender every step of the way you should be able to pump out models.