Possible to "clone" ships?

[Jace11]

Serg knows how to do this, it is possible. He gave me some instructions, but I tried to follow them and it didn't work. The key is a bit string unique to each ship, clone all the files then sift through them and change the identifying bit string and you should have a new ship. Except I couldn't find all the bit strings in all the files Serg said they were in, so I gave up.

Here is what he told me.

Originally Posted by sergbuto

Each 3D object in the models has its own ID in binary format. That is how they are recognized by the game. I.e. each of two copies of the same 3D object should have an unique ID to appear in the game as independent units. Therefore, while duplicating, one needs to change such IDs throughout the DAT file to make them unique. An example of such an ID is shown in the pic below. It is 8 bytes highlighted in dark blue. These IDs also need to be changed in corresponding SIM, DSD, VAL, and ZON files.

Good luck.