hey everyone,
i am looking ot get more involved in the gaming side of things, modelling for games and stuff like that, but i have no idea what all is out there for my picking, as far as resource / community / forum type things. i figure what better way to get into it than modding and stuff like that, or finding open source gaming engines or something along those lines, but i just don't know what's out there. anyone got any good clues or cool games to mod that i can check out? i'm pretty out of it in the modding scene as i'm broke and can't afford to buy games, but i'm hoping to pick up a couple soon and try to mod them or something.

thanks