[konidias]

Lightwave is like 3D Studio Max, only simpler and with less features and power.

I have both of those, as well as Bryce. I'd like to try my hand at Maya though.

As for 3D stuff... modeling is easy once you get into it, and animation is a million times easier than drawing individual 2D sprites, since you just move the skeleton and the model bends with it.

Texturing certain things is just as easy as making tiles for a 2D tileset. They are still just being placed in a tiled pattern, only the level isn't flat. But for like, texturing of models and such, you need to practice a bit to make it look good when wrapped around a 3D form.

As for Graal3D... well, it sounds neat, and I hope they have made a lot of changes since the last screenshot. I myself would like to see the current Graal turned 3D (like cell-shaded, cartoony looking) There is a total lack of online rpg's that look like that. While the "realistic" mmorpgs are a dime a dozen.

If I wanted to play a realistic mmorpg, I could find about 15 of them in a few minutes. I'd much rather see something that looks more like Graal. I remember me and Unix had a talk about Graal3D, and how we both thought that it would be awesome if it was like Zelda Wind Waker, except online.