maya

For Sure.

afaik the tools needed to export it to the hl2 format arent out yet.

Unless you can import to XSI, but then Im not even sure if that is fully working yet. :-?

smd exporters are the same as hl1 pretty much

Maybe stupid question bwth......

Could you save the model as 3ds in maya, then import it to max?

Even more wired....

Make it a obj in maya, import it in bryce, export it as 3ds??

Spellbinder.

Quote from jay_delux

Can maya be used to create models for hl2 as i am currently learning it at uni.kind regards jay.

Yes, it can.

The 4.5 scripts works on Maya 6 and there're some people from the community working on updated scripts.