I am making a sports game, that will use several 2d menu's. I was wondering if anyone has found any good tools for making menu's. Or am I stuck trying to make them in a 3d prog?

You say stuck, as if its a bad thing ;)heh

Seriously speaking and pragmatically as well, learn 3d if you haven't already.

It's not that difficult, and you will need the skill, unless you have lots of money or coercion skills to get someone ELSE
todo it for you..good luck on that!

If you don't like blender, there are tons of choices like art of illusion ( which I love) and truespace which I find absolutely fascinating and awesome.

Both are easily found googling, and both are free and you can easily extend both if you wish.

Personally I think truespace, which Microsoft no longer in involved with at all, is stunning software, and if you have a current half way decent machine, its stunning. THe interface may take a bit of getting used to,but after that using it to make things is stunningly fast.

Blender is prob. a favorite here along with 3ds max given the awesome exporter the forum author has made for max , and he deserves a lot of credit for doing it.

If you have max, I urge you to use that,but if not and blender isn't to your liking as its not mine personally, I found truespace to be stunning and highly functional and powerful:

http://www.united3dartists.com/forum/index.php

Other 3d options as vegas noted are adequate if you don't want anything fancy I guess, but 3d is always a good thing to have under your belt

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SkinMan Originally made for virtual instruments GUI design
Inkscape Looks very capable of making good GUIs

or if you don't want to start from the begginning you could also check some stuff at Open Game Art for example, then adapt them to your needs

Good luck !