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Tribes 2 Assets
Since I've been doing a lot of research into the vehicles and weapons recently, I've stumbled upon some forum posts which had compiled version of Tribes 2 Assets. Now I thought, well if I do some searching there must be a fully open mod which reveals how vehicles have been done with the max files. After a bit of looking I came to find that sierra is still hosting the complete set of Tribes 2 Assets, with original max files and skins. I was just randomely looking at thier download section for Tribes 2. So you get to see and mess around with Tribes 2' orginal files! This is a little golden heaven as researching weapons, tank turrets, etc.. is super easy now! I've already looked into some files to check out how things are done and it's really a good insight. I've opened it under Max 8 and most will give you an error, but can be re-saved. Not only do you get the models and skins, you get the sounds and you can download loads of scripts! If you encounter .vl2 files, jsut rename them with the .zip extention and extract. Even though the scripts are heavily created for T2, they are a very good source of information on general scripting and methods of implementation.

Since the T2 Assets are 115mb I can't upload it to TDN, but this would be so beneficial in helping newcomers learn about modeling and exporting.

General Tribes 2 Assets: Contains all Max Files and Skins
Mod Tools: Contains all Max Files but no skins - I don't see the difference in Max files with the above.
Sierra's T2 download page

GG's Search Engine
I moved from Opera to Firefox a while back and been adding fun search engines, of which I found one for GarageGame's Search Engine. Maybe I'm catching up with things but this is sweet.

Musing...
Other than that.. I've been still messing with Vehicles, getting only slightly further than previously, I still can't see to get jets working. I'll try some further scripting at some stage.