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Originally Posted by VONHARRIS
Option 1 : Add to the block [CLASSMAP] the line M34B=GenericMerchantsAndTankers. This is the easy way
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Doing it that way completely defeats the purpose for the Ship Names mod. Part of the idea behind the Ship Names mod was to get rid of the Generic list, adding all the names to models that actually look like the real ship. Every time I add a name to a ship class I look to see if that name is on the generic list, and if it is I remove it. The original Generic list had 3500 names on it. It now has a little more than 600, while my own research has added 13,000 names, all to specific ship classes. Once I exhaust the list I'm currently working from, I plan to go through the Generic list and find where each name really belongs, and put them there. After that there will no longer be a Generic list to link classes to.
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Option 2 : Be another Sailor Steve and do your own research for names.
When you have found some create a new class in the Ship names.cfg starting like this :
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Every single name I apply involves about a half-hour of research, using several books and online sources. To apply names at random again defeats the whole point of me doing this in the first place. New classes that are added need precise models. This means I've spent approximately 6000 hours looking at ships for this mod over the last five years.
Once I have a new computer that will actually let me run the MFM I plan to go through and rename all the 'MXXX' with class names appropriate to the class. M34B will then come up in the book as something like 'Kirriemoor class merchant'. I have a separate list of which names I've applied, including how close the actual ship is to the model I've applied it to. Until I have a computer that will run MFM I'm unable to test and find out why some ships don't show up in the game I'm kind of stuck. If someone else can figure out I'll be glad to know what the problem is.
On the other hand anyone you give this advice to should be aware of what he's getting into if he wants to do it right. It's not something I just threw together overnight.