That's a lot of work in only four days.  You could churn out a rough beta in only a couple weeks.

Yeah, it is a resolution issue. I just have no idea how to force it up, or force Softimage to not `check` for it.

You can convert .ALO to .3DS and then convert .3DS to .OBJ in 3DS Max. I've done that for several EaW models so I could rig them for Sins.

Yes for export to softimage, it is probably the best way, I have made it the past days because it cleans the mesh from all the bad alo properties. But the problem from 3dmax and alo at a netbook with a atom processor is the hardware, 3dmax on the netbook can not run by hardware, it runs by software and with this system I can not export a alo. 

About import alo to 3dmax, at this moment there is a complete import tool, it is similar script to the soase max tool but it imports everything from models, it is very good. At the past, only programs as ultimate unwrap3d could open a alo and from it, you can import to 3dmax the neccesary mesh, it was a long work but at the end, if we compare alo with the SOASE system, SOASE is very very very easy, at alo even you need a special mesh for shadows, of course at my opinion probably the shaders from alo can show effects that I´m not sure that you can see at SOASE but the difference of amount of work is  considerable, I´m very glad by this.

If you want know for import SOASE models to alo, I open first them with object3Dconverter, it lets save the mesh at 3ds. 

About netbook resolution, most of the models with 10" use 1024x600 when many programs can not run at it.

A race has units assigned to it via its Player<Race>.entity file.  That's right at the top of the file under the Entities heading, with sub-categories in that for Planet Modules (structures), Titans, Capital Ships, Frigates, and Research Subjects.  Units in the Frigate heading are always built by that race's frigate factory, with the first page being the "Frigates" page in the user interface and the second page being the "Cruisers" page in the user interface.  Capital ships are always built at a capital factory and always in the "Capital Ship" user interface page, and Titans are always built at a Titan factory and always in the "Titans" user interface page.  Factories only build the ships that are in its race's Player<Race>.entity file.

Yes, the textures and the intro movie file are the only thing that cannot be opened in notepad. Even Sins meshes can be opened in Notepad.

 All texture elements are referenced in .brushes files, which are stored in the window folder.

Thanks. I asked about notepad as a reference from txt files but I do not use it, for these things I like a old macromedia dreamweaver, specially because it has a very good search and it can open many type of files.

Just another few questions, can be added more of one titan per faction? what are the limits from each shipyard? 9 units? can it be increased? can be a new shipyard added?

This is very interesting, I was thinking about some like this. 

About fighter squadrons, can they added at all type of starships if the model has a hangar hardpoint? 

Sorry if I make many questions but I bought rebellion 10 days ago and I bought SOASE not more of one year ago. I´m a  rookie at this game.

Strike craft are a real game killer with the added load. Beware.

Thanks by the answer, very useful as always. Here I have one more, can be a model with two mesh added with softimage? the pdf guide explains about how you can divide the mesh at different parts but you must select the poligons, I would see easier if the model is divided at two mesh with different textures each of them and I must not select any poligons.

Ah now remembering, Goafan77 you told at moddb this about if I made a mod from SW for SOASE.

I´m making at first place it for myself, if I release it, it would be because it reachs a good level. Other point would be how I have been making mods for different games more of 11 years and how I do not like teams because usually people can not commit oneself, they do not finish their work and you can stay many time waiting to finish something, personally I like more the idea from collaborators, people as Nawrocki who he shares similar ideas to me and he makes new skins for the models from my mods but usually I do not ask to him about how they must be, I give to him free hand with the work. 

About my mod, public or not, it will be one different thing to Warlords and Requiem, it will remember more to my Alliance mod from EAW/FOC, I search to make one thing more massive and where a frigate will not be destroyed with two shots. It can be difficult and perhaps I failure, perhaps I will destroy all the balance from the game and it will not be good, who knows, by the moment I have added ten models and it looks good but I spend many time making changes at code. Other point would be how I will try add most of all the space models from my FOC mod, can be fun. By the moment it is a good work for free my mind from the FOC work.

But just curious what are the other 3 SW mods? I know one, the mod from Codeuser made probably with TR work. It can be good but our ideas are very different.

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This is typically how I operate too. If people are willing to help, I say I could really use someone to do X, and if they do it great, if not I won't lose any sleep over it. My main concern was that all of these Star Wars mods were going to be doing a lot of the same thing, and it doesn't make sense for us to all be working secretly and competing with each other. But now I see your offer to let other Sins SW mods use your stuff, which is the kind of atmosphere I'd like to see, and that's kind of the collaboration Lavo and I had before Rebellion back when I was developing Requiem for Diplomacy.

Well I was including yours as one of the five. The other 4 are.

1. Sins of a Galactic Empire

2. Requiem

3. Ascendency (from the Thrawn's revenge team, maybe the one you were talking about)

4. A still classified one I intend to make soonish.

I don't have EaW installed on my computer anymore so I'm not exactly sure what your mod is all about. But from the screenshots it seems yours, ascendency and mine will all be between the Galactic Civil War and the New Jedi order. Requiem has said they'd like to add the clone wars eventually.