I'm making a mod that is close to being released. It will add a couple of new factions and a whole lot of new weapons.
You can see abit of the progress on the bottom of this post.
But first, the two questions i need help with.
1. How do i make it so i can use the letters å ä ö in the language file. I already made it so that diffrent factions say and behave diffrently. Now i know that the letters ä and ö can be used as they are used in the german translation of the game. However every time i try to use em they just end up looking wrong ingame. I.ex. if i write the swedish word "mår" it will turn up in the game like "Må¨@r" or something like that.
2. As an experienced user of blender (im using 2.49 mainly), how do i open the mesh files, i want to create some better vehicles and unique vehicles for each faction. However as of now i only found a plugin for blender by ogre3D that diden't work with 2.49. I haven't tried it too much but i expect that i can use that plugin on a newer version of blender, save it as a .blend file and open it in 2.49 for editing. Saving it there and then reopen it in the newer version of blender to export it back to .mesh.
And that are the two questions i had.
And now for some early mod progress.
I am an experienced modder from before, I know how to do voxels and 3d models.

This is a picture of the SCAR-H that is already ingame in the mod beta.
And here is a small weapon list of weapons that are currently already ingame or being made for the game.
The majorities of weapons in the list are already done and in the mod. Which i plan to release in about a week, maybe two.
Baretta M9
Baretta M9 Silenced
Baretta M93r
Browning Hi-Power
Colt .357 Anaconda
Colt M1911
IMI Desert Eagle .45
IMI Desert Eagle .50
IMI Desert Eagle .50 Tactical
FN FiveSeven
Glock 17c
Glock 18c
Glock 18c with stock
Glock 21
H&K MK 23 MOD 0
H&K USP .45
H&K USP .45 Tactical
Makarov PMM
MP 443 Grach
Sig P250
IMI Uzi
Benelli M4 Super 90
C-More M26 MASS
H&K FABARM FP6
Mossberg 590A1
Remington M870
FN SCAR-L MK 16 PDW
H&K MP5A1
H&K MP5A2
H&K MP5A3
H&K MP5K
H&K MP5K-PDW
H&K MP5SD1
H&K MP5SD2
H&K MP5SD3
H&K MP7A1
H&K MP7A1 Silenced
BAE L85A2
Colt M4A1
Colt M4A1 Mark 18 CQBR
Colt M4A1 SOPMOD Block 1
Colt M16A1
Colt M16A2
Colt M16A3
Colt M16A4
FN SCAR-L MK 16 MOD 0
FN SCAR-H MK 17 MOD 0
FN SCAR-H MK 17 SOPMOD
H&K G3A1
H&K G36c
H&K G36k
H&K HK416
KC AN-94
KC AK-47
KC AK-74M
KC SR-3 Vikhr
Colt M16A4 SDM-R
FN SCAR-H SSR MK 20 MOD 0
KA M110 SASS
Springfield M14
SE M14 DMR
SE M14 EBR
AI AWM
Barrett M107
KC Dragunov SVD
KC SV-98
KC VVS Vintores
KC OSV-96
BAE L86A1 LSW
FN M249 SAW (Minimi)
FN M240B
H&L G36 LMG
H&K MG4
KC PKM
KC PKP Pecheneg
SACO M60E6