I have taken the Blender starter pack a step further by adding some stuff and packaging it into an installer DVD ISO file with a GUI interface to make a complete Crysis Modders Pack.
Included on this DVD are Blender and all essential files to import/export Crysis/Far Cry models, plus the Blender vids, The Gimp (fer yer textures) with a normalmap filter and some tut vids, I have also included Paint.Net cuz it is a very powerful image editing/creation prog that handles dds files easily, and the MS .Net framework files that Paint.Net needs. I added the VLC Media Player as a last thought, just explore the contents and look fer the folder, it can handle most media files including quicktime.
With this package installed ya really don't need the SDK, and I can attest to that cuz I ain't got it installed. I thought this might take me a week or 2 but I kicked it in the grass and got it done in 2 days. The Rar file is 592 megs but it is 780 megs uncompressed.
Also are links to each progs homepage.
Happy modding!
A shot of the GUI

A screen of a chr file from Crysis in Blender.
Download it herehttp://www.filefactory.com/file/b28f2ac/n/crysis_modders_pack.rar
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