Changing a ships model

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Hello I want to change the Advent Loyalist Titan's look to that of the Advent Rebels, or well I'd accept anything else but it's current design. I have tried using the bin to text and text to bin converter to try and do this, but it results in the game crashing upon startup. And simply renaming the .entity files leaves me unable to build the Titan as a loyalist I do not have access to the rebel titan research. Is there a more updated tool to edit .entity files that may resolve this? Or some other way I am unaware of?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

there are several ways to do this, the quickest and dirtiest is to edit the racetitan entity and change the MESH name (and yes in the TEXT mode(so you can easily check and change at need) of the files and in a MOD (so you are not killing the base game)).

harpo, the ghost NON-subscriber

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

That's what I did, using the bin to text editor in one of the stickied threads here, it resulted in crashes when I applied the mod. Perhaps I was using the wrong bin to text editor and if so would you mind linking the one that works for the current version of rebellion?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

from my text/bin gui thread reply 208 (https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/353296/get;3194463) the link to the rebellion compatible version is here

and it 'should' continue to work with any future updates to ANY of the expansions, BUT it REFUSES to convert files in the program files folder tree to protect the game files from being changed. it is a good idea to COPY  the entire rebellion folder from inside the steam folder to anothe area OR drive before attempting to convert the files.

hope this helps

harpo, the ghost NON-subscriber