The invisible is because you didn’t give it any textures (most likely).
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I actually think that Homeworld puts a default gray texture on it if there is none.
That’s how it used to be when I was testing out ships pre-HODOR 2.0, they had the default gray texture.
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What does DAEnerys think of your ships?
Pre 2.0 yes, it just rendered them as blank grayish-white surfaces. Post 2.0, they turn invisible. I speak from experience. 
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Ugh, really? I was hoping to hold off on texturing until I get my ships fully-working…
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A plain gray _DIFF texture will suffice.
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I applied a simple green texture to my ship, still invisible. Where else could this issue be?
(lmk if this is too image-heavy and I’ll remove some)
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Materials and textures must be named properly or HODOR will ignore them. Use the format from the example ships.
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Yup, @Dom2 speaks the truth. 
But I very much would like to encourage you to take a look at it with DAEnerys, because that’s exactly what it’s meant for (right now).
Dom is right, your shader and textures isn’t following naming conventions. HODOR is ignoring them.
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Woo! Lol… I’ll fix those tonight, @PayDay and I’ll try out DAEnerys! Thanks everyone
EDIT: Quick question about texturing: How does Homeworld RM handle reflectance patterns?
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REFL map I believe. White is fully reflective, Black is matte.
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By referencing the hgn_carrier and the tai_interceptor I determined that my material should be called “MAT[Civ1_Destroyer]_SHD[ship]”. However, this does not work for my ship as it’s still invisible…
Ideas?
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Have you tried DAEnerys yet?
Either way, feel free to send it to me, and I’ll take a look at it.
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Does your texture name (in Max) also follow the naming conventions set in the example ships?
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I believe so yes, I referenced my texture’s name from 2 different example ships (to make sure it was right).
@radar3301 I’ll send you those files tonight.
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Do you know if there is a maximum size for the texture files HODOR can work with, because I seem to have a slight problem with a cough 8K cough texture right now, which makes crash the program when I launch it.
Good lord. Though no, by itself that shouldn’t crash it as the mothership has 8k textures.
Is HODOR compressing it using DXT1?
My own script used 8888 and I tried HODOREST using all parameters, without avail. I modified while typing this post my script to compress the texture to DXT1, but without success either.