have you looked at the myfist0 tutorial threads?, eg https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/376221

harpo

That page is no longer being updated. All that info and more is on the soase.weebly. Have not had much time to add to it lately though.

That tutorial is on reply #42 but with no pics. By the looks of the addresses for the pics, they were never there. Also the texturing section is out-of-date. The devs switch the team colour channels and specular. Much better texturing tutorial on the http://soase.weebly.com/texturing.html writen by major stress and a few others plus videos.

I have the original tutorial download if you want it, but as myfist said some of it is outdated. Let me know and I'll fish it off my backup.