Like, what programs to use, and how to make it.
Let’s say I want to make a ‘cereal box’ you can pick up, and how could I make that cereal box, and make it so I can use it in Hammer?
You might want to check this thread: https://www.blackmesasource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137
And this one: https://www.blackmesasource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=378
This is quite a handy page too: https://www.blackmesasource.com/forums/search.php 
don’t even try if youre not gifted with inhuman patience and attention to detail , usually the best modders are also good at drawing …
this, if you cant draw your models will look like shit
It’s all about the left brain. Down with the right brains. Boring reality loving fuckheads.
Amen.
If it werent for us right-brainers you wouldn’t be using the internet right now, because it wouldn’t exist.
Dias invented the internet, you heard it here first!
So that’s why it’s always full of nostalgia!
you made it out of tubes ?
Took a left brainer’s mentality to start it. A Right brainer would’ve been all
“O NOES!!! IT’Z IMPOSSIBBLEZZ!!! WAT’S DA POINT OF DA INTERNETZZ ANYWAYZ??? WHY MUZT WEE WERE DEEZ RA-DICK-YOO-LUST-EYES!!!”
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…lol.
Yeah… The internet is made of tubes… Shaped to form huge trucks you can dump stuff in.
I guess I will have to rethink my ideal job.
I disagree that you need to be able to draw in order to model. If you’re modeling from existing reference (for example, cars, architecture, famous actors) its more or less irrelevant whether or not you can draw.
I think modeling is easier than drawing, because you edit a “solid” object and you can rotate it and it has a depth.
Spinning tubes, that is.
if you cant recognize shapes, reference will do shit for you, i know this form experience
Well, it’s the same part of your brain. Anyone can model, but the dealbreaker is being able to…MODEL…
If you can’t make up something yourself, than you stop being a modeler, and become a 3d scanner.
Tell that to the tens of thousands of MODELERS in the game and film industry who are paid salaries to model characters and set pieces that they didn’t make up themselves. Or better yet, tell the Black Mesa art team they are all just “3d scanners” because they are remaking HL1 assets.