SO! I have always wanted to see a Planetside 1 themed mod in this game. This was a dream of mine even back in RWR's beta.

Turns out that the user Scienta had at least started such a mod, "War on Auraxis", at about that time period. Funnily enough I had never heard of it back then. Arbitrarily I went searching for such a mod for RWR this morning and it turned up. /AwYiss

However, Scienta hasn't posted for 4 years, and the last post on the forums in that thread was 3 years ago as well.

I downloaded the mod, which was made before the move from "overlays" to "packages." Since it was very basic - really just flavor text changes, and some basic weapon additions and voxel models - there wasn't much to do. After some f'nagling in the XML files and a wee bit of restructuring I managed to get all the tags pointing where they should be. The mod is now running in Quick Play mode. Bear in mind, I have never done modding for RWR before in any aspect. I just read some comments in the XML, the modding article on the RWR wiki and stumbled through error logs for 2 hours. But it works!

Seeing that I have managed to get it functional with the current version of RWR and the original creator hasn't touched it in ages, would the standard procedure be to see if I can get ahold of them and obtain permission to continue work on the mod? What happens if I can't? As I understand the mod wasn't ever released under some sort of licensing scheme. As such, is it wide open for adoption and continued development?

I'd really like to see this mod grow. I've actually got all of PS1's old data for reference, like sound effects and etc. I'm a lot further along in regard to basically every skillset pertinent to this particular project than I was when I originally thought of such an idea 4 years ago. I'd be happy to work on it in my spare time as a hobby of sorts.

Thoughts?

It's nearly 4 years ago the last time he visited the forum. Therefore I am pretty sure that he won't come back and revive the mod. I'd expect you to be able to use his stuff and continue working on it. Just make sure to credit him and in case he somehow comes back one day, you might just cooperative with the project. Good luck!

PS: feel free to join the discord server, there is a healthy modding community out there.

Sounds like a plan. I guess I'll be working on this on and off and see where it takes me. He'll surely have credit listed in the docs and everything. Thanks!