Well contact me if you wish to corroborate. Each and every file that gets compiled with the rest of my mod needs to be thoroughly examined. And if you put in significant work, you're welcome to thoroughly examine each piece I put in. That's my proposal. If you just want to help a little bit here and there, that's fine aswell. . . but then you'll have to wait for the 5 different releases to review it. . . or I may just get out a specific part, or discuss it with you if you want.

@LCCX- Acceleration gates are probably gonna be the tricky ones; however they aren't ever used in PvP to my knowledge, only PvE.  Jump Bridges are easy as simply copying the Vasari Phase Stabilizers; Jump Gates are a little tricky to do, but are actually quite simple. I already had an idea for jump gates for another mod idea I have (so far the name of the mod is undecided but I'm leaning toward "Red Dawn Rising" or "Upon the Coldest Sea"; it will feature slowboating!).

Just to make sure, what do you mean by "dual texture" sets? I presume you mean those units with "[unitname]_tex_d_001/002/&c" texture sets.

If you can give me a list of abilities&buffs, I can do them easy. Ship/structure/race entities will be more difficult to do, as I will need the prepared ships (I can take care of the following- all Amarr/Gallente drones/fighters/fighter bombers; Caldari fighter/fighter bomber, the Archon, Orca, Hel, mining drones, and a unique ship called the Zephyr (will try to post pics of the Zephyr once the Orca is done)) for the ship entities.

Also, a question- since we so far can't get the mining barges, I'm thinking that we should make each races' mining frigate, and the Orca&Rorqual, the resource-acquisition ships. The Orca&Rorqual can't take on mining lasers, but they can carry drones (thus, they could carry mining drone squads to "mine" asteroids). The Caldari Osprey, Gallente Exquror, and the Minmatar&Amarr cruisers with mining bonuses should be the cruiser-sized versions.

Also, the Rokh&Apocolypse should have "mining" versions, as those 2 BSs are the highest recommended for mining (the Rokh outperforms the Apoc as a matter of fact).

Any plans on moon-mining yet? I've got ice/asteroid mining pretty much down (they will effectively be the same thing, with different texture/mesh sets though). Also, I'm considering starting a petition to the devs to include the ability of modders separating metal&crystal income-gaining abilities. Right now you simply earn "resources", or both m&c units, instead of earning separate metal&crystal. Thoughts on that?

@gruntmaster1- I was actually going to suggest that we have a "master manifest" set, 1 with all EVE races+Sins, and then another with only EVE.

@gruntmaster1.... Thanks for replying to my post.

@akkan117-

I already had some plans for trade ship bases. Industrials are trade ships, freighters are used to deploy POS-style structures, and jump freighters are used for long-range resupply support.

I also already had a plan for the asteroid belts and an idea about income. As for the ORE ships- I've been able to export the Orca&Rorqual with ease from TriExporter, but cannot even open the mining barge .gr2's.

For the asteroid belts- I planned on 2 types, "Ore" and "Ice" fields. "Ore" would be Sins metal, and "Ice" would be Sins crystal. I had almost entirely forgotten about the ISK replacing credits (thanks for reminding me).

Most of the reason I suggeted a "mining Rokh" was because of the fact that at present at least I cannot access the mining barge meshes, and the Rokh is the best mining battleship.

Oh, and for the asteroid fields- I planned on using the asteroid mesh, an asteroid field "mesh", and a large group of metal asteroids. My theory behind mining is that by using an ability similar to the Space Egg's "Drain Planet", and having it targetable only on capturable structures (resource extractors in neutral territory are the only ones that will be like that), they "mine". The trick to it is making the capture of an extractor not give any income in the EVE TC version.

Now we just need to petition the devs to allow different abilities gain different income types (i.e., one that gives metal, one that gives crystal, one that gives credits).

Also, we will probably need some new textures for the crystal asteroid to make it look like it is an "ice" 'roid.

@Archangel1980- couple things:

1) please do not use red text again, as it makes it very difficult to read on the Sins forums color scheme.

2) the main problem with using Industrial ships for mining vessels is that indys make, to put it bluntly, piss poor mining vessels. At most you can slap a single Miner II onto an indy, at while their huge holds make them ideal for transporting large quantities of ore, the main problem is that it takes friggin' FOREVER to fill up the hold.

3) I'm thinking that for the purposes of the NPC empires, simply using the Bantam, Burst, Navitas, and Tormentor, for the Caldari, Minmatar, Gallente, and Amarr, respectively, for additional resource acquisition early on, and supplementing it later on with each races' "mining" cruiser (these being- Caldari Osprey, Gallante Exequror/Vexor (the Exequror gets cargo bonuses, while the Vexor gets mining drone bonuses; neither is the straight-up mining bonus of the Osprey/Scythe), Amarr Arbitrator (yes, the Arby is a drone carrier, but it does get bonuses for any mining drones it employs, and no other Amarr ship gets anything remotely like a mining bonus), and Minmatar Scythe). Sorry for the great volume of parenthetical text.

4) in relation to the 5th race planned in the mod (a player corp-style faction), which I hope LCCX will allow to become my pet project, I plan on using customized Apoc+Rokh models that have a slight degree of mining capability (the Orca+Rorqual will provide a HUGE boost (especially the Rorqual) to those ships mining).

different contrast archangel

Okay. Update on the EVE models with double textures because they have multiple materials/layers:

Kudos to Major Stress for identifying the solution tool.

1) Download Deep Exploration CAD edition by Right Hemisphere, and install
2) Export a model from TriExporter as a .3ds file
3) Open the .3ds model in Deep Exploration, right click on the shape > tools > separate by materials (last option)
4) Save the model as a directX .x file
5) Now you can import the .x file into XSI ModTool and each material group/layer is its own shape/object you can apply the appropriate textures to each.

good luck on the mod, lets hope you will put in as much ships in there as possible, and make it look like EVE as much as possible.

Just wanted to lend my support to the team creating this Mod, hang in there and Mod little and often (make sure to take breaks!). I think this is a very good idea, and I really hope it is still being worked on.

Kind regards, Ben

raptor jesus ?

lols

i hope the mod doesn't though :-/