i use the new blender and i love it!!! only draw back is no .x  compatibillity i just export as 3ds import into sketchup then use the rad plugin for sketchup to put in rad

yes, it actually has .x support, you just have to enable it yourself by going to file-user preferences-Add-Ons Tab- import/export, and the check the option Direct X import/export

I've got Blender already.. and.. I knew Blender was going to turn out being the answer.. I just thought I'd have to figure out how to switch model types to ge them in rad, but now I guess it's already available in blender. That's good.

It's funny though, when I look at Blender images of some of the best work done on it, it is REALITY ITSELF, but then I heard about this polygon limit of a mere 10,000, and I'm wondering how they even made those images. I also heard they're looking into raising this limit much higher.
However, Blender's too buggy and unstable to be good for anything beyond light demo and graphical work. Save often when using Blender, or so I've heard.

well, that's why I said "I heard", as these claims were suspicious as hell.

I was just watching a youtube video called "Super Blender Galaxy", and well, it looked exactly like Mario Galaxy, perhaps with even sharper resolution, all done with Blender using Python scripts. He even had revolving globe terrain areas, and the fire and raccoon mario abilities, triple jump, wall kick, and raccoon mario flight.

I just don't know what to think about Blender, except that it's very powerful and has the toolset of a $3,000+ graphic application.

I guess now that I've seen some better work for it I think it's best to get some official word on what it's poly limit is, and perhaps this newer version has fixed a lot of the bugs, but I'd still save often just to be sure. Someone said that for a reason, right?

well, that's why I said "I heard", as these claims were suspicious as hell.

I was just watching a youtube video called "Super Blender Galaxy", and well, it looked exactly like Mario Galaxy, perhaps with even sharper resolution, all done with Blender using Python scripts. He even had revolving globe terrain areas, and the fire and raccoon mario abilities, triple jump, wall kick, and raccoon mario flight.

I just don't know what to think about Blender, except that it's very powerful and has the toolset of a $3,000+ graphic application.

I guess now that I've seen some better work for it I think it's best to get some official word on what it's poly limit is, and perhaps this newer version has fixed a lot of the bugs, but I'd still save often just to be sure. Someone said that for a reason, right?

yeah i saw that vid too it look kewl i wish rad could do somthin like that

ok, back on focus now- I looked at the user rpeferences for blender and found an export-only direct x format, but how can I import models from google sketchup into blender?

alright, so I've realized aside from it being best to un-group models before exporting from sketchup, it's really only complicated when you've got it into Blender, and then you need to deal with some preperatory issues like scaling and some other technical details, but I found a guide on it at a blender site.