The advantage is that its a well know site for mods, so in theory get more exposure. Anyone can put anything they make mod wise on it, I do know they have some guidelines about post, news, etc etc. Zman could tell you more since he has alot of stuff on it.

DS we havent updated our page b/c well Nacey has the access and we have our forum topic that serves all that we need.

Turns out the problem was five-sided polys, as myfist suggested. Model's ingame now, thanks however.

Unfortunately no, not yet.

how in the world do you set up homeworld to start off with it??

alright i have the aldar and i have the aldar homeworld its the extinct planet from the maelstrom mod

in the galaxy scenario def file i have it set up to be the aldars homeworld with it own template but when i go to play on any map including the ones i created as the aldar i spawn with a Terran planet instead

Created a post and updated the links.

Okay, now this issue is getting weirder. I decided to export my scene to xsi in order to get around the .obj not wanting me to add tangents to it. When I imported the xsi file into the mod tool, sure enough the flaps were distorted just like in game. Seems for some reason when I save to .xsi the UV map for those polygons gets corrupted. I tried copying the uv map in my original scene and pasting it, which fixed the problem in the mod tool again, but when I tried to export and reload the finished xsi scene it just screwed the UV map up again.

So, does anyone have any ideas of what might cause softimage to screw up a UV map. I tried every freezing option I could find but none of that seemed to help.

Here's the in game result again for anyone who didn't see the first post.

Interesting... I didn't see any five sided polygons in the scene you uploaded but still had the same issue when I tried to export it to *.xsi and then *.mesh. Either way, glad you got it sorted which is the most important thing in the end.

Edit- I also think convertXSI throws some errors if any of the polygon's are not 3 or 4 sided which I didn't see in the initial conversions. Still scratching my head on this one...

It can also weld vertex's on the model that have the same UV co-ordinates eg symmetrically overlay-ed UV's, when optimized even if there only tri's & or quads. Some poly reduction is performed and sometimes it collapses the mesh where it shouldn't. However GoaFans77's looks like it has only lost a seam, like vertex's along some seams have welded. Its hard to say without looking at the scene.

Heck--I can make you one if you want.  Those are easy.

How many polys are you willing to go on it?

I've already got several things like it and it's easy to make.  I can even get it in a mesh for you if you give me a day or so.  No problem--no need to do anything back.

Here it is if you want it. Textures someone will have to do though.

Ironically, I can get you a file in almost any format--except XSI. Can you convert it to mesh?

Yep--I'll taker a copy of it if you share.  I think I like it better as my cargo box than what I have and getting experience for taking out "critical comm sats" sounds better anyway (not to mention I like the tiny size).

Here's the link. It's in OBJ format  and I even squeezed in a little more detail too.

"Will model for karma"

Hey!  That's my billboard!