well once you get used to making the models and making a skin for them I can do some magic to the skin to give it the illusion of depth
I suck at those kind of programs so I pretty much stick with config tweaking and texture modifications.

3DS 2? That's about 10 releases out of date! I don't want to imagine working in that environment without my favorite modifiers.

Of course it's out of date... Tribes was released in 1998!

They changed so much stuff, that future releases are incompatible with Tribes.