Ships with no GR2 files

[kapuhy]

I've been fooling around with GR2 editor yesterday... so, I thought all 3D models in SH5 use GR2 format, but I see many ships (PT boat imported from SH4 by TDW is one example) don't have any GR2 file in their folder. How come?

[Jeff-Groves]

That Unit is an imported dat format.
You'll see UnitName.dat instead of UnitName.GR2

[gap]

In addition to the dat-format ships mentioned by Jeff, there are ships whose cfg file points to the GR2/DAT file of other similar ships. This type of units lack a DAT/GR2 file of their own, and they are known as "proxy copies".

The Patroclus is an example of that; here the relevant strings of her cfg file:

ClassName=AMCPatroclus
3DModelFileName=data/Sea/NAMC_Rawalpindi/NAMC_Rawalpindi