if you have xbox live, you can get it for free until the 15th...and if you like it you can get the dlc (game of the year edition) on ebay for $6.99 shipped. better then paying $20 for the dlc content.
and that my friend is what makes you "one of the greats". Early years of course but for your love of modding you will be up there with the names of those who had a great impact on this community.
I havent done anything yet skinning wise to the jedi jedi person. Just pretty much rigged it and got the skin files to how it should be. gonna be working on it this weekend.
well its kinda different for every vehicle. lets take a regular fighter vehicle. now if it has landing gears theres an animation for that for when it goes up the animation makes the gears go up. and for when it goes down the gears comes down. plus if it has wings that moves. now for land vehicles like walkers theres the animation for it to walk. but when it comes down to a droid vehicle like you wanna make t3 just have its arms move and maybe head twist.
true you can always do some cgi work later on to make them seem like they are flying away or to a planet. What I did was open the vehicle in Modview, change the background to green/blue and move it the angle I needed it for the shot to be. Screenshot it and edit it in the video editor. Ive even done Speeder Bikes on a green screen map for speeder chases.
photo's would love to see it. reason im making mine is im doing a dooku back story of key moments from the death of quigon, leaving the jedi, joining the sith, recruiting Jango for the Clone Army and the death of Sifo Dyas.