Modding equpiment

[Arzel]

sorry for such a stupid question but me and my friend are trying to make a full scale mod a.k.a a mod that has charactes weapons and maps what program(s) do i use and where can i find them.

[shellc0de]

For starters, I hope you at least know what google is and have found this: http://www.udk.com/

Other than that you will need a 3d modelling program such as autodesk maya (free for students for 3 years) or a free program (not as good) such as blender. And also an image editing program for making textures and their normal maps, such as adobe photoshop. Throw in some sound authoring studio programs that can make sound effects and the music sound track and basically that's it. UDK has everything else.

[NickG]

You may want a nice editor/IDE for your unrealscript, also.

[Teixas_Rex]

best of luck to that project
Maya is nice ("easy" to learn but hard to master)
my word of advice ot it is:commit, this is the kind of stuff that takes a while b4 youll see any results but ultimately may be worth it