Do you know what format the models are in? Sins uses .mesh and a lot of games the format needs a program to convert.

I used to play this game a lot.  It was absolutely superb, to certain extent it had almost everything i wanted from space RTS...especially the map divided into those star systems, which gave you a feeling of actually planning on grand scale, conquering enemy worlds and traversing vast distances...i always wanted to Star trek armada to adopt this style or Conquest set in Star Trek/Babylon 5 universe...Sins was the first game since then, which reminds me of conquest...though it is bit more complex...

One thing i cannot forget was the great orchestral score for the game...truly unique and breathtaking, i loved the "naval theme" playing in menu to bits... and those funny Mantis unit voice over: "Ready we aaaare!...or "Thrusters ooon!" and Human Dreadnoughts "Preparing broadside!" LOL Happy times....

what was your favourite race? I used to play for Celareons, cause i liked their shiny water-like ships (Aurora FTW) and their Defences - Starburst and Proteus... I was really sad when they cancelled the second game...did you happen to try alpha demo of Conquest 2? There was a new race called Vyrium and they had a planetkiller! It even had a fantastic animations of the firestorm moving across the planets surface leaving wasteland in its wake...i was so excited and then so dissapointed!

Anyway, regarding the mod, i do not think it is possible to use the models from original game and even if it was, they are quite low poly...if someone was about to make the mod, he had to make the models from the scratch... i could offer a help here, cause i have some modeling skills (made the Centauri Vorchan for TobiWans B5 mode), but unless someone does the coding stuff with entities, it is quite pointless....

  This sounds like an absolutely wonderful project!! 

Count me in to the extent my limited abilities can help.

-Teal

if you thought sins was the only example of that type of gameplay, you are quite wrong, Hegemonia was I think a closer match, it came out in 2002, an awsome game, in many ways a precursor to sins (almost like sins was a sequel to this game) some of the things the game got right:

the 3rd D, it had true 3d movement like HW

the sense of a breathing comerce underneath what you where doing (civie ships, salvage teams, kinda got the feeling like there were actualy people trying to live in your war)

managing you empire was acualy HARDER than the war part, whole planets could just up and die from one disaster or another if you wern't diligant

absolute bleeding edge GFX for it's time (ship designs look as if they were riped right out of the movies, again for it's time)

but most importantly........ABSOLUTLY THE MOST BEUTIFULL DEATH FX, EVER, with out question, perfectly cought the cinimatic quality of ship explosions before everyone went the route of blinding lights to cover bad fx up

seriously, the under apreciation of this game is an outright crime

but in the terms of conquest, it was certantly inovative for it's time, but it never really felt like an empire to me, more like an exuse to string maps together, but I would certantly play a mod for it

ok i will upload the models and textures tonight

there was also a forth race called the vyruim who were basically reptillians. but the second game never came out, only the demo.

i look forward to this project.

Any idea what we use to open these .3db files? Max can't make head or tail of em.

no i dont know how to import them or edit them. maybe we have to google it or something.

we might have to end up making the models from scratch using screenshots from the game

you never answered my pm harry lol i don't know if you got it but i was askingif you needed the stats from the game cuz i have it also have made it so i can get the especial ships used  in the campaign

the milkshape editor might be a possible way of editing the conquest model files. ill try it out.

http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/ms3d/download.html

link to the programs and plug-in download page.

lol k just wondering didnt know if you had the game or not i have lotsof mods that add ships i could send them 2 you if you want them never played them but theve been off the internet for awhile than goodness for old cpu and email

there for cfw ill post screenys when i get home form school have to dig out CD and old CPU it'll be fun though

checked the mods the didn't change much the celarons have a carrier that  looks like a trireme my costume one makes the aourara have missiles form the celaron defense platform and the other make the dreadnought have a ion cannon to kill platforms kinda fun to play with

i have found a decent main theme for this mod. its the terran theme off conquest that has been proffessonially done by james hannigan. sounds awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh45OT1Ve8A