Awww. You poor poor boy..  I will sent you my Ex, she will turn you from green to pale white (like dead) in no time.

Ships are never invisible, you just figured out how to make a cloaked ship. Just like when I burn the chicken, I just became a Cajun chef.

Here is the link to the "Egg" which is actually the right model.

It's corrected now--my bad.  Glad you wanted to peek at it.

I am guessing that the model was not invisible, just microscopic in scale lol. How big is it supposed to be? Nano Virus?

You proportionally size them by making a simple object, for example a sphere or a box, then keep resizing and exporting (make sure you freeze all transformations in XSI before exporting) it into game until you get it roughly the same size as as a frigate.

Then, with each new model you make, you size it up against that box or sphere or already resized models. If you want a frigate size object, make it the same as the box. If larger, make it bigger, etc. That way you only have the hassle of sizing up the basic reference object once.

A good practice is to also keep a separate scene in XSI with all your ships resized next to each other - that way you can easily make them proportional and you can easily look up the transformation data in case you need it in the future.

As for convertxsi, if it has problems with converting your model, one of the most common ones is that it spits out a mesh with a bounding radius of 0, so if that happens you know where the issue is. But since you can see your object ingame, just very small, I'd say you need to look at the actual size of the model you are trying to import.

Ok--now I have it running in safe mode (which it wouldn't before--and not that I'm logging in on safe mode every time either).  It says there was a problem with HW Audio and its routing around it.  Then I am in.

What the heck is HW audio and why is it crashing my PC?

HW Audio is one of those Autodesk cine things that attaches audio files to particles and models--I'm pretty sure it's coming was prophesied in the ancient scriptures.

My computer does talk to me--we converse often.

Filthy, stinking carp!

I used the bounding radius from the text mesh. Planets bounding radius in the txt mesh was 4999 so I opened xsi and made a sphere set the size to 4999 and low and behold, myfist0 had created the earth and it only took 3 mins.

How long has vista and win 7 been out? You guys are just NOW figuring out the run as admin crap... I mean carp.

Confirming; I'm on Win7 64-bit Ultimate edition and run 7.5 just fine. Everything I've rigged has been done in 7.5 without issue.

Just an update:

Well--I am at the point of diminishing returns on this with my current Win 7 machine.

On installing in safe mode, several processes were unable to load fully but it ran.  One of the things I noticed was that the Netview window didn't open.  I was prompted in safe mode (with networking) to install updates and I did--which caused the Netview window to appear.  I also had the same HW audio failure but was given the option to attempt to update it at a later time.

So installation is a little buggy and Netview kicking in is exactly when my program crashes every time (yes I have router permissions done and anti virus exceptions for it).

So I am sneaking into my son's room while he is away tonight to se if it will load and run on my 32 bit XP system.  Eventually, I'll get that back and can use it.  Worse case, I can boot it in safe mode for editing.

Ok--after a day of having to fix buggy software on three comps yesterday, I filled in the time trying to debug my Softimage mod tool installation. 

After installing and debugging on two different architecture comps I determined it was a hardware issue.  Softimage just doesn't like my carpy HP machine here with Win 7 on it.

Ironically today, just for giggles, I started up Softimage mod tool and darn if the thing didn't just decide to run.

Now on the 32 bit system I had it running last night with XP but after running the runonce.bat, I was not able to have the textures automatically imported with the OBJ models.  The same thing happened now on this 64 bit Win 7 comp--but XSI is actually running otherwise (for now at least).

Any setting in the software regarding texture importation  Is there a switch or default setting or preference somewhere to set or change?

We live for the carp...we debug for the carp.

If Mr. Morden were to appear now and ask me, "What do you want?" my answer would immediately be, "For all my software to always function like it was ideally intended to."

Where are those darn shadows when you need them?  Curse you Vorlons curse yooooooou!!