[zircher]

No, the glow is an effect of the rendering engine in DoGA. You can have 100% ambient textures in .X models, but nothing with a glowing aura unless the game engine supports that effect. Given what I seen, some special effects are supported, but I don't know if they're available to the ship mod author.

As to DoGA having too many polygons, you have to (of course) be wise in choosing your parts. When making models for real time use, if that model is the size of a stamp, you don't need high resolution parts.

I wrote of a handy game mesh creation tutorial for Metasequoia that uses DoGA to create the basic ship design. So, I know it's doable since I used DoGA and Meta to build a complete and functional ship set for the SEV beta.
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TAZ