Yup, one of the tutorials included in the mod pack covers how to set up a model in XSI for conversion and if I remember correctly it includes how to place weapon/exhaust points.

You'd have to make them. I can check which file they're in, but there should be a .tga in the Textures folder that has them all, a .brush file that separates the big image into individual icons and each ship's entity file has which icon to use.

Yeah, the ship entities all have a section (in the beginning for capitals, end for frigates) that lists the abilities they use, it just uses names of the Abilityxxxx.entity files. If you just use other capital ship abilities you should be fine, if you use some frigate abilities you'll need to do a little bit of work since capital ship abilities need to be defined by cap ship level, and frigate ones don't.

You sure can, and in the entity files yep. There's a section in each file for weapons.

Like above, should be a .tga file somewhere in Textures.

The easiest thing to do would just be to make a copy of an existing ship, and change what you need changed (the mesh, the icons, weapon values, ability list, costs, whatever). Making a new entity file from scratch is very much not recommended. If you use an existing as a template it's easy to just change stuff that's specific to your ship and be sure that you don't mess up anything basic that every ship needs. Those entity files are pretty long, and most things you actually probably won't touch

No

I smell like sunshine dust.

Sorry EviliroN, I don't do any modeling so I can't answer that one for you.

actually I have a different idea...

what are the basic file I would need to IMPORT another capship from another mod into a mod I am compiling?

this is just for me, I am not distributing or whatever, just wondering.

it would take out all that modding crap that has frustrated me in 4hrs work time now, lol!

example:

if I DL Sacrifice of Angels mod, I want to import just the Starfleet captial ship, where and what files will I need to move and where are the files located, etc...

another thing, modders, what is the text line to add a sixth Captial to the fleet?

again Annatar, thanks

I saw a working model of a babylon 5 ship (with a rotating centre piece, totally awesome) and it said it had 40 gun points on it. Not sure if that meant working or not, but I did see it shooting in the vid.

Edit

Here this is what I'm talking about:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305381/page/3/#replies

If that guy is still around maybe he can help you or some of the people that posted in that thread.

Hijack!!!
Check out my thread and let me know what you guys think about my ideas.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/329761

I think you should ask me 1st before you start importing ships from SoA 2 into your mod. The only people that have permission right now are the 7 deadly sins team. I want to keep it that way.

There is a slight problem with the extra capital slots... Sure 4 extra caps is great, but what about the UI?? It is still the same 1.05 UI with space for 15 ship slots. Unless someone knows how the grid system in the brush files works having those 4 extra slots with no UI space for them is kind of pointless. Duplicating UI textures is a waste of resources.

I have had up to 18 points of one weapon type working with no issues that i am aware of. This was before i found out about the supposed 10 point limit. The starbase in entrenchment has far more than 10 points per weapon. I question the 10 point limits because of the success i had using more than 10.