Moin,
I canīt tell you how to alter the damage model, but...
...go to the folder
..\SilentHunterIII\data\Sea. Here youīll find all the ships used in the game. One folder per ship. It contains the SHIPNAME_SIL.TGA. If youīve installed a plugin like this
http://greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm you can preview tga-files within the Windows Explorer. This should make it much easier to find the ship you want to mod.
And in case you succeed altering the damage model, please tell me. Itīs the thing i staved off to the end. Iīm in the final phase of modelling/testing my ship. But unfortunately the ship does not go down. Although itīs counted as destroyed unit it will not sink.
Regards,
DivingDuck