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And im still searching, im not stopping just because i posted... But im getting a huge headach... I have blender open and im just searching through the different blender tuts... "Press thsi key to do this" -Presses the key- (Totally different operation)... > Goes to next video...

Ok, so im 15 days old, i have socialized, explored and toyed with prim building and made a few things. I joined this "game" to learn 3d modeling and a few other reasons i dont need to elaborate on for the purpose of this post. What i have found in the last week of drudging through the plethora of information about Second Life editing is that i might as well beat my head into a wall and hope the blood trails eventually, by the laws of quantum physics, spell out the answer... Because im not finding any helpful information to a question i have started to just randomly ask everyone i meet... That question... How do you export your shape? I have seen hundreds of post about it, use this program, use this viewer do this do that... But none of that works currently. None of the information you find anywhere is concurrent with the limitations i find with any viewer or program i use. I finally, after random chance, asked a person and they showed me how to bring up the "Dev" tab in FireStorm so that i could export my av... albeit into XML form which Blender, i read, doesnt do. I can get 3dS max and use it, but i dont see much information about it and i have the choice of getting version 2011 through 2014, with no information on which one is actually the better to use, which ones the addons work with... A list of tools needed for proper building would be nice too, cant seem to find one. I was hoping with a 10 year old game there would be a coherant list of *current* tools and tutorials, but it seems one is left to a shot in the dark for google searching to actually figure anything out, past basic "This is a Prim. Everything starts with a Cube." type stuff. Im wanting to seriously get into building objects, clothing and AVs... but i have no clue where to start. So here are my questions for the community, if they should be so helpful as to aid a new person that probably is asking age old questions... 1: Which *current* viewer is best to use for modeling? 2: Which *current* modeler is better for the current SL? 3: How can i get my shape into any of the modelers, without having to spend 3 hours copying down numbers and completely recreating my shape? 3b: If i was to do custom work for a friend/customer/random person, how would i get their shape? 4: Where is a good list of addons for any of the *current* modelers? 5: Where could i find a list of *current* tutorials that explain how to build/mod in the *current* SL enviroment?