LOL
Actually, a weapon pack is not enough to do that, however, I am thinking in doing a "new game" of sort to speak, as a new single player story mode.
Nali Weapons 3 is actually just the 3rd time I am repeating the phase 1 of that big project, as I didn't like at all how both previous versions turned out, being:
Phase 1 - Nali Weapons (it should be the first version, but then I made the 2nd thinking it would be good enough, but then I realized how shitty both versions were and I am therefore doing one which I actually like)
Phase 2 - X-Vehicles (already in production, 6 of them are finished, about 25 to go, but the development is pause for now due to Nali Weapons 3)
Phase 3 - Mapping features and performance optimization
Phase 4 - Mapping
Phase 5 - Voice acting
Phase 6 - Beta testing
Phase 7 - Release
Of course, I will do everything until Phase 4 alone, and will need help from Phase 5 onwards. And at the end, that project alone might reach about 800Mb to 1Gb of new stuff.
However, I am doing Nali Weapons 3 since April (paused during the whole month of May and half of June due to school and some programming projects for it, half of August due to work), so they should take about 7-8 months total (NW2X took 6 months to do).
30 vehicles should take an entire year (or more), the mapping about 6-9 months, voice acting will be difficult if the community keeps shrinking, as beta testing as well. But hey, an Unreal SP project was released after 7 years of development at moddb, the graphics aren't that great, but it had it's own spot at moddb on the monthly top 5 released mods, and I plan to finish mine within 2 years or so (although that may be too late, but I will do it anyway unless something more appealing appears in the meanwhile).
So in resume, Nali Weapons was never thought to be actually a normal weapon pack for normal gameplay, but for my bigger project instead as weapons you would find out during the campaign. It just happens that I am not sure if something like that will actually happen, so I develop them first as a normal weapon pack like any other for online play and botmatches, simple as that.
But even so, either with NW3 alone or the whole project released, I don't think any of the projects will ever be considered good enough for "Epic sponsor" or even something near that, so, let's not go into illusions, and let's have our feet on the ground.
3DS is much more powerfull in modelling and skinning, but it doesn't have a proper way to animate vertex meshes and has bigger problems and it isn't as straight forward and reliable as Milkshape is regarding the export to the unreal format.
