don't lose hope on this one Rheinguard, there aren't so many major inhibiting factors (aside from what would likely be some warped scalling, but who cares about that next to the total AWSOME factor)

To make Macross or Gundam mod in Sins, we need code that can make Massive Complex Animation System realized. That make AI and animation blend and make little calculation of physic on PC

I know it has been 2 years since the last post for this, but figured I would toss in my 2 cents. Being a fan of the Macross series myself I would LOVE to see something done for Sins.

First, Sins is all about the Naval Engagements. Ships of sizes from Frigates all the way up to massive Space Stations. So, here goes:

The iconic Macross-Valkyries/Robotech-Veritech fighters would have to take a back seat. At the most they would appear as Fighters and Bombers for the Cruiser-Carriers, Capital Ships, Stations and Hangar Defenses. I know we would all love to see them transform and fight, but that ability would most likely have to be sacrificed (why waste time on something so small?). I would suggest leaving them in Fighter Mode since that is the mode we see them engage in more often than not in a space battle. Gerwalk and Battroid modes were left mostly for close encounters.

One thing that must be said is that Robotech got a LOT of things wrong when they re-scripted and reorganized the three separate series that the USA knows as Robotech. The following link is to a website called the Macross Mecha Manual.

http://www.macross2.net/m3/m3.html

Here lies nearly the entirety of the mecha, ships, and other vessels that appeared in the various Macross sagas. There is a large array of ships that are available within this series. However, in order to grant players a wide range of vessels to choose from I recommend starting in the Macross7/Plus timelines.

There are several races to choose from: the U.N.Spacy, the Zentraedi (males), the Meltrandi (females), the Varauta, and the Vajra.

My only response to this is: Who will not be picky? Any fans of a thing will always try to nitpick when they see something they believe is incorrect in an attempt to have some input into a correction.

Anyhow, I would love to see something for Macross brought into Sins. If who has tried to do this mod has quit, then are there any tutorials on how to break into modding? As well as tools...

I'm going to guess at what you're trying to say, because I'm actually rather flabbergasted about what it is.

Anyways, what I think you're saying is that for this mod, someone needs to make code to implement animations into the Sins engine.

Which is impossible.

Before you start saying "but the devs say it's super-moddable", animations of the type you're probably talking about (traversing turrets, transforming fighters/ship components), are hardcoded. Sins does not support animated ship components.

At all.

There are ways around it, but not for something like a gun turret. The iconic Omega destroyer of Babylon 5, for example, has a rotating hull section. The B5 mod team implemented it as a particle mesh effect, so that instead of the section being part of the ship's mesh, the rotating section is actually a separate mesh that is attached via particle effect specified in the mesh file.

And before you try to contradict me by saying "if you can do a hull section, why can't you do a turret?", then understand that the hull section does one thing, and one thing only: it spins around. That's it.

And it also cannot be hit by weapons fire, as it is a particle effect, and only meshes can be impacted.