Help with Gamerman4's Ship Pack

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I recently downloaded both of gamerman4's ship packs, but I want to make the drengin ship pack usable for the terrans, or better yet for all races. But I don't know how to edit the file type the download was. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You should be able to use it with any race, it's just a matter of picking Drengin ship styles when you customize your race at the beginning a new game.

If you want to use them with the terran styles, you're out of luck. There doesn't seem to be any way to edit the shipcfg/class files to change that without breaking them, last I checked.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
*** Deleted my previous post because it seems to not bear any significance anymore ***


Errm...

I just found out that you simply have to rename the .shipcfg file with a different race-style prefix. So, to make Human style ships available to races using Drengin style, go to your ..\[your user name]\MyDocuments\My Games\GalCiv2\ships directory, open the .shipcfg file with a text editor and save it under a new name with the prefix changed to the new race style. This works at least for template ships (only hull and jewellery), haven't tried it out for ships with components yet.

The race styles are:

S0 - Human
S1 - Torian
S2 - Yor
S3 - Drengin
S4 - Altarian
S5 - probably Dread Lords

Example:

You have made (or downloaded) a ship made for the Human style that's called "TehDrenginSlayer" and want to make that ship available to races using Drengin ship style. Open TehDrenginSlayer.xml and look for the number at the end of the text between the [Model] tags (e.g. UD_TehDrenginSlayer5). Now simply open the .shipcfg file that corresponds to that number (there might be several) and save it under the file name "S3_UD_TehDrenginSlayer5.shipcfg". That's all.


@Kryo:

Did Stardock change the code recently? I'm pretty sure I tried this procedure under 1.11 and it didn't work back then.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Hopefully someone will wander in here again...

I know how to edit the shipcfg, but the file I downloaded isn't .xmls and .shipcfgs. Its some odd file. Did someone just mess up when the uploaded it?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I know how to edit the shipcfg, but the file I downloaded isn't .xmls and .shipcfgs. Its some odd file. Did someone just mess up when the uploaded it?


Give me a link and I'll see if I can check it out.