This may seem like a small/insignificant point but I would like to emphasize it. Projects don't need idea people. Formulate your vision and stick to it. If you at any point doubt yourself, figure out the doubt and conquer it. One of the critical aspects to managing a team, large or small, or a solo project, is to not simply devote to your vision but also harness that vision.

Up until Retribution I never planned anything out. I never needed to. I work on a system of outsourcing. I knew people who, at some point, knew I might make a request from them. Odd jobs, like voice acting, or having someone build a java script to batch rename Brood War frames. All production was kept entirely private except for minor bullet point updates and the rare internal video. Occasionally people made suggestions which were considered at best. Most suggestions will never fit into your plan, but ideas have alternate merit to them. Do not ever feel obligated to the opinions of others, however. Build your project for yourself.

Talent is forged, not born. Give life to the forge of Creation through challenge and independence.

So, if anyone DOES know some good places to start looking (internet or otherwise), that's be awesome. Just saying. I know that finding a graphics design guy or even a guy who's interested in doing this isn't exactly going to be easy.

DeviantArt, Sci-Fi Meshes, ModDB, CGHub, Google Image Search if you know how to internet well.

And just to reiterate, the name "Halo Ressurection" WILL get you into legal trouble with M$, as it is against their licensing terms.

As i said before You will need to learn some basics in Modding,  Art, and 3d modeling. Stick to your vision, and if people like what you are doing. Then the help will come to you in time.

Microsoft will go after you regardless of whether it's for profit or not. If you get a C&D, you won't be able to continue, regardless of what you do. So you may want to reconsider that decision.

Game Content licensing terms from http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/developer/rules

In addition, your Items may not use the name of the Microsoft Game in their title. For example, we don't object to "Red vs. Blue". We don't object to "Operation Chastity". But we do object to "Halo [insert the title of your Item here]". We want to make sure consumers don't get confused.

Along those same lines, please don't use actual logos from the Microsoft Game as part of your Item's logos.

Microsoft thinks consumers are too stupid to tell the difference between free mods and official Halo games....

At the same time though, if a bunch of people made games with "Halo" at the beginning of it's title, and I'm sure there are lots of people who want to do that, it'd be hard to differentiate between the official and unofficial games.

One example being the Slenderman games. There are an unknown number of indie games with Slender in the title. As far as I know, there is only one "official" Slenderman title - Slender: The Arrival by Blue Isle Studios. You could possibly add Slender: The Eight Pages to that list of "official" games, but that's highly debatable since it's a free game and has no story.

The list of indie games relating to Slenderman include:

*Slender Space

*Slender: The Nine Pages

*Haunt: The Real Slender Game

*Slender Man's Shadow

And many others.

Anyway, this title change is not of major concern to us at the moment. This is simply an interesting obstacle, as the name we had originally conceived had correlation to the story in a certain way, but now we must think of a new project title to catch people's attention while still being an obvious Halo Mod.

Yes myfist0, I know. I stated that in my original Post.

But here's the major difference between the two Mods: we will have a Campaign. And there will more than likely be various other differences that will distinguish the two. Like I said, there will be a lot of similarities, but I promise they are not the same thing.

Probably the best you will be able to do "campaign wise" is to setup mission specific maps (scenarios) where the AI starts in a certain place with an empire already established (or however you want to set it up).

Like Sparda said, there really isn't code for triggers or scripting.... So (to my knowlege) you are essentially limited to setting up a map, setting up the starting positions, and modifying the galaxy scenario file to the point where the enemy (presuming its AI) will start off with whatever you want it to.

Rebellion has some new victory conditions you could utilize for potential "objectives" but outside of that... sins was never really coded to be a campaign game, rather multiplayer (human vs. human, or human vs. AI).

Good luck with the project!  it will take you longer than a year as others have stated to produce a FULL finished and POLISHED mod.  But dont let that discourage you.  We have been working on 7 Deadly Sins for years now.