Hello I'm Jimmy
I'v been working on a mod extremely similar to yours and was hoping you could help me.

I'm making an avp mod specifically for my role play server. I have prepared 6 different tiers of predator Armour and each tier has a unmasked version and 3 masked versions. the models are from the avp 2010 game and Aliens:colonial marines

to earn different tiers of Armour tribes will have to earn different trophies and upgrade the predator crafting station.

1)un-blooded
2)young-blooded
3)blooded
4)elite
4.5)bad blood
5)elder

once at elite a tribe can ether choose to upgrade to bad blood or elder

Each rank of predator will gain access to new tools to prevent the over use of particular weapons. if you were to help I would make it so thermal vision was available to all preds but cloaking and plasma weapons wouldn't be until higher ranks. I wasn't planning on using any of them though considering I don't know much about modding.

I am also hoping to film a few short films to extend the lore of the game to suit the avp theme. the main part would be that the ark is a hunting reserve. we will be using the bush people mod as well on the server.

When it came to the wrist blades I was going to have it so they were attached to the gloves you have to equip a certain item which acted like an invisible sword and it looked like the blades on your gloves were the weapon. I was thinking of a similar thing for the plasma caster but i didn't know how to make it work, instead of it being a gun in his hand you could have it so the gun is on the chest plate mesh but the firing tool is a detonator so it looks like the blast is coming from a shoulder cannon but is isn't really with the detonator tool. the human counter to predators would be the smart gun if i were able to do the kind of stuff you did here.

I also have 7 breeds of alien
raptor-warrior(alien and aliens)
dillo-spitter
rex-praetorian
carno-predalien
spino-queen
whoolly rhyno-crusher
giga-emperess(giant queen with a skelital like texture)

here is a link to a video on my avp projects page it is not upto-date afew animals are being edited to cover up gaps in the mesh
https://www.facebook.com/jimichrist/videos/10208720350542072/

But I am having trouble with small things like how to make their blood green.

I need help on the modding side of things I'm reasonably good with the 3d work due to my
diploma in applied 3d animation, but at the time i opted out on game design to work on other projects, I was hoping you could help me get this working and we could share resources. I couldn't care less about the credit and they help you supply would earn you the publisher title I dont care if you use any of the supply from my mod on yours if you find anything valuable(the only stuff you would be interested in are meshes and textures) i just want to get what i have worked on for the past 6 weeks made

I'm only really making my mod for the RP server i want to run based around AVP lore if you could help me it would make me very glad. I'm pretty much half way through all the models and rigs.

I need a partner because I dont think i could do what you do. I hope to have a avp server working with human and predator tribes along with bush people and possibly even UNCM and pred tier building and vehicles.