Okay so a little about me, I have not really rendered in a 3D form very much aside from a google program and this other one I forgot the name of. I have Autodesk installed on my laptop along with Photoshop 2013 and Illustrator and any other adobe program I need. I want to know where I can get started and if I recall werent there some programs made from bungie for this very purpose for us to use? If so please point me in the right direction or any direction for that matter and I am very interested in any insight tips you can give. I am so bored at the moment, waiting 3 months to join the air force and working at goodwill so too much time is on my hands and I dont like them being still.

http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=8579
read the stickies.
search the site for tutorials.
there is a video section of this site also that has a bunch of good tutorials that you wont need to download. http://videos.halomaps.org/index.cfm?cat=6
ask again if needed.
Edited by Maniac1000 on Aug 12, 2015 at 11:22 PM

https://www.youtube.com/user/HaloVideoTutorials/videos

Check out the whole channel, lot's of useful videos from fixing errors, creating simple objects to making a few differing types of maps.