Shipmodels&models folder

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Hi @ all,
I really need to know, if dark avatar uses only models from its models folder, or if it also reads some of the dl models, since its important when parsing a mapfile when coming to ship tags, ie shiptype . I want to implemt the ship models into the editor.
The second question is about starbases, do mapfiles support starbases? Can't remember of the campaign
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
DA reads models out of both GC2's and its own folder, AFAIK. Note though that the ships referenced in maps are not models, but those ship designs defined in gc2ships.xml, with shipcfg files in the appropriate location for the race in question.

I don't think starbases can be placed on a map (there's a starbase 'ship' definition, but even if that worked there's no way to specify type, modules, etc).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ok thanks, worst case scenario as I thought, however you don't know what models from what folder? I already parse the gc2ships.xml for that, but I need to specify either DL or DA path for the whole shipcreation upon fileloading, I think I have to rewrite the ship part make it dynamic
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
however you don't know what models from what folder?


All the ones that were replaced in DA still have the same names, AFAIK, so you could probably just look in DA first for a model, then if it's not there, look in GC2. I couldn't say offhand exactly which models are changed.