Wings3D & .X?

Blender is free, and can export to .X. See Using Blender to Make Game Models by Jeremy 'Wolfmanyoda' Cox.

From previous research, Blender comes up as being very powerful, but not in the least intuitive. I'm not a modeller and have no desire to be. I am not prepared to invest time learning a complex interface to do simple things when a less powerful but simpler application could easily let me do what I want. I don't need any advanced features.

I can see this easily being derailed into Blender fans trying to convince me how good it is, and easy to use once you put in the time. I don't deny that, but please humour me by suggesting a "Modeller for idiots" which has a .X plugin.

I don't want to do much more than create simple primitives (boxes, cones, spheres etc), join them together and tweak the vertices a bit, apply one or two texture coordinate sets, and set material properties.

Thanks!

In wings, export to obj then use a converter. Blender may do the job. You may want to try Deled too. It's primarily a level editor, but you can model objects very easily with it, much easier than to use than wings3D. I believe it exports to .x

www.delgine.com

Yes it does according to the website. Since I've ot actually used Wings I'll lose no time installing and trying Deled - it looks like what I'm after. Thanks!

BTW - I managed to rate you to over the 1400 barrier, if you care!