wont be the meshpoints, have done many

Try removing the line and converting to bin using diploacy converter, if that fails its mesh issue

Ok...here is a montage from "birth to destruction".

If you look carefuly you can see where the internal hits and damage take place from the pirate guns.  It took a little playing around but the engine likes my jagged edges and internal structures and tends to hit them more often--so I arranged them for eye candy maximus. Some of the effects are the regular ones for the ship--as the progression goes on the remainder are for the pirate hits.  

The neat thing is that only the mesh needs adding.  The textures and particle effects are all already in Rebellion and added to the mesh.

I was careful not to blow any holes in the model where weapons are so it has the full compliment of turrets and the like.  You can change the ship entity file to reflect any sort of changes you want or leave it as is for a "full strength blown up Kol".

If someone wants to get the Kol texture out it would be easy to modify it with a few smoky-burned smudged edges around the holes and I kept thinking of changing the hull number to a lower ones to reflect it was lost before the current Kols were built.  My pet thing would be to change the name from "KOL" to "KULL" as well..it would be a light edit and let you see it as the ship name or class as you prefer.

So here's the montage (THE LINK IN THE OP HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE NEW MESH IF YOU WANT TO GET IT):

I don't suppose this could find its way into the Distant Stars ship graveyards? 

I had accidentally re-uploaded the old file last night.  The new ship mesh with all the particle effects is there now.

I'm going to look at the entity files for DS and will swap it for the TEC battleship in the graveyards as a mini-mod for DS.

Posting in both threads.

If all it is, is a new mesh, all that has to be done is create a folder called Battle Damage or whatever the mini would be called, create a mesh folder in that, put the mesh in, and that's it.  Mod wise, just make sure it's above DS in the list, and above any other mini that includes a mesh for it.  Safest bet is put it at the top of the list and don't worry about it.

However, after looking at his mesh, if you want it to work with DS:

1. The name of the file needs to be changed to CapitalShip_DeadBattleship to make integration much easier

2. If it's to be used in Rebellion as opposed to earlier versions, a line under "mesh data" needs to be added and the info maxDiffuseMipLevel 0 put in to it...  I assume that was the intent since Rebellion particle effects were used...  I don't even have rebellion and I know that...

3. If used in Diplomacy/Trinity or earlier, the first 6 points need to be removed.

4. Just a general problem I see: The 7th point needs to have a tab deleted so that it lines up properly.  Most likely will cause an error upon loading. (The game is expecting 34 and is probably only going to see 33 because of the alignment issue.

5. It's missing a weapon point:
    Point
        DataString "Weapon-1"
        Position [ 41.514137 56.767746 192.605179 ]
        Orientation
             [ 0.965926 0.000000 0.258819 ]
             [ 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 ]
             [ -0.258819 0.000000 0.965926 ]

        That should take the Rebellion point count to 35, earlier versions back to the 29 it originally had.

6. The diffuse and SelfIllumination texture references should be changed to say CapitalDeadBattleship instead of CapitalTechBattleship to use the dirtier textures.

So yeah, that's all.    It's actually not very much at all, it just looks like it.  I can't test it either, but I don't think there will be any other problems if the mesh is fixed up.

I'm thinking I grabbed the wrong file for my upload--the final copy I have here has everything in place with the exception of the indent before point-7...I have fixed that now and will post it up.

I'm replacing the file again and will work tonight on a DS mini-mod that's debugged and working properly.

Give me a few here to upload.

Sigh...  Try this:

http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/BattleDamage.rar

Put it at the top of your mod list.

Maybe I have a bad DS install here.  I did re-install but have not re-downloaded it.

If I place my mini-mod with either of our mesh files in it and in the proper position (where it is supposedly overlaying DS's original file), it mindidumps after loading.

If I delete the DS Dead battleship mesh and replace it with mine--or yours--and only start DS, then it runs fine.

I've had no problem adding it to un-modded Rebellion at all.

The only difference I am seeing is you preserved the original order of the points (I had moved the exhausts next to each other in the file) and you added an additional weapon point that corresponds to the same point used by the bomb point.  I don't show that additional weapon in my converted source file from Rebellion.

So I have one point less and a slightly different, in-file order--that's all.

Just thought it was worth a mention.  It's possible DS has touched some hidden "feature" of Rebellion that we mere mortals don't comprehend.  I still get the same results in Ds but otherwise it functions as normal as far as I have experimented.

Lol--it has to nag a developer.

Thanks.  It seems like every single time I mod something I run into the, "Hunh--that never happened before" category.