I've definitely used Yamato and other Anime influences (namely Gundam) when designing stuff in Black Sun. So yeah, there's a lot of really cool designs there that I personally don't think really get approached by modern western media. The trouble you'll run into is the effects and how limited sins is.

Effect trails in sins are a total mess because they don't update very fast, and the child particles always die immediately with the parent. So, any and all long trails just vanish when the projectile hits. Depending on the scales of your ships, and the speeds of the weapons, there's a few different strategies you can use. Traditional trails can work if the projectile is extremely slow, an example of this is the solid color trails in Bailknights missiles. Those tend to be very expensive particle-wise though, and suck for performance/particle limits. "Fake" trails, like those I make in Black Sun, can achieve the exact same effect but due to the high speed of my projectiles it can be hard to even see them at all.

Both are sort of demonstrated in this screencap from one of my internal videos.

Mesh files are easily resized through a mesh resize tool that can be found around here. Non-mesh based effects can be resized through particleforge which should have come with rebellion.

Nice trailer. I see some sound effects I'd love to rip from the actual anime. I might have to try to find that, now.

The projectile speeds are not that high. I believe you can get a trail like that quite easily. The problem will be just the trail vanishing when the projectile hits.

It's mostly the details that are extremely hard with sins because of the limits. Sins technically doesn't have real child particles, so stuff like particles inheriting the properties of other particles in terms of position and velocity is all entirely impossible. Sins also doesn't have ribbons, which would make these pulsebeams extremely trivial. So, things like the beams colliding correctly or leaving weapons smoothly is very challenging, and the challenge gets harder the faster the weapon is because sins doesn't "update" the positions property for non-attached emitters, thus those gaps in the trails.

When I say fake trails, I mean technically my emitters are not really trails at all, they're just particles moving backwards. That works quite well with very short missile smoke trails or, in this case, these pulsebeam effects. So while a 1:1 effect is going to be extremely hard, I have similar ideas already in place in Black Sun (though most of those are from non-revealed content I won't show until the movie is finished). This is not a mod though.

There's a few good sound samples I've collected from the first episode so far that I am sure I can clean up and get working ingame.

The tool for resizing meshes is different than particleforge. It's a usermade tool. I imagine someone will probably pop in here with a link sooner or later, I don't have it on hand myself. Particleforge is what handles the actual particle systems, some of which use those meshes (all torpedo bodies are effectively meshes spawned as particles). Particleforge can't resize those meshes, but it can do everything else with particles including colors and textures, spawn rates, etc.

Tested and working on Windows 7 64-bit. Can't say about the output file but the program itself shows no issues.

I can be of service. Here's BD rips of the show with FLAC audio. If you're not a fan of torrents, I can probably find some XDCC bots that have the show.

I use this tool all the time on Win7 64-bit Ultimate; works fine for me. Just need to make sure you have the right Windows support packs installed (forget exactly what MS calls them).

Streams aren't as good a source for ripping audio as the BD rips are, no offense.

Yup, those are the links I've been using. I've gotten several interesting sound bytes out of this so far. I only managed to get like 2-3 out of the live action show; while decent, quantity is pretty critical. I expect I can make use out of all of them, as beam sounds are particularly hard to fabricate from scratch. My beam sounds are very different from sins, which just uses a looping drone and fade in-out graphic. I managed to create quite a few interesting effects with a bit of tinkering...

Oh. I may as well throw this on the table. If you have an anime or movie or something you want a particular sound out of, and you think it's relatively clean e.g. as little background audio as possible, I might be able to rip/remaster it for you. It is very rarely possible to rip sounds out of noisy backgrounds, but it relies entirely on stereoscopic presence. That is why removing vocals from music is typically a myth. If the sound is short, the background audio may not really warp it enough for most people to care.

Those effects are probably FumeFX or something equivalent which is not doable in sins. The most you can do is get sprite sheets built with fumeFX (I made a bunch for Black Sun) but sins has a very small frame limit on animated textures so that sort of a drawn out effect is basically impossible. Also, as I said, Sins doesn't have child particles, so those streaks of fire traveling outwards from debris will never look anywhere near as good ingame.

As for the sounds, there's a couple of clean shots in that first episode for sure. Remastering them should be very easy.

I use 3ds max for modeling myself. I find XSI detestable.

wait a minute

does Sins have turrets that can rotate on an axis? I just realized half the ships I want work with rotatable turrets. Bit of a shame if the game doesn't support it, as that means when I do learn how to model effectively, I'll have to point the turrets in whatever direction I want the ship to fire from.

Yeah, you'll need a more advanced engine like homeworld 1 if you want real turrets.

well thats a pity, guess I can work around it. Guess i'll make every ship have Illuminator style turrets or something.

@Zombie

yeah I've already downloaded every rebellion compatible mod I can find to examine file structures and files, along with gameplay and such, have about 300 hours of Sins on steam, 50 of that was just mucking around with 3 different mods seeing what I could discern.