It's time to start looking at blender again. Also, take a look at Wings 3D to see what it can do.

Here is a recent one, DAZ 3D.

Interesting quotes

• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isnt. - Mark Twain
• there can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth. - George Jacob Holyoake
• Truth is a slippery thing, and certainty is just an emotion. So speak confidently but doubt your own words.
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle
• Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. -- Charles Curtis, "A Commonplace Book"
• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi

Here is a searchable 3D Engines Database of interest.

A recent /. article got me looking into gaming engines.

• This link was revealed to me by a recent post on /., mindrover combines a 3D interface with something that Win can handle. It costs $25.
• Here is a tutorial on game engine technology.
• Here is a tutorial on creating a map with quark.
• milkshape is an affordable modeler whose output can be imported by all of the engines.
• Here is the latest version of the half-life editor which Crystal Space seems to favor.
• Crystal Space is open source. You have to build from the source. I got it to build but the only demo that seems to work is flarge and the render is slow and choppy.
• Reality Factory also appears to be open source. It doesn't work on my home machine.
• Freya is real simple so it might be a good candidate for teaching Win.
• Torque looks nice but costs $100. I have played with the demo and got some results. The demo doesn't allow you to do much so it's hard to say whether or not it's worth the $100. The site registration indicates that this is a one man company.
• Here is a list of game development resources.
• I should also look at logo which was designed for kids Win's age.
• Hmmm, I already have serious sam and it looks like their engine is relatively easy to work with.
• To use polygons made by milkshape, you must first export to lightwave.
• There are definite usability issues with the serious editor. You have to position and size a new shape before you add it to the world. After you add it to the world, you cannot reposition/resize it. After you add it to the world, you have to go through every polygon so that it will be lit correctly.
• Here's another.