A little question about managing custom shipsets

Dear fellow modders, got a little question for you: when you use a custom shipset, if you try to create a new design the Designer shows you both your custom templates and the standard ones to choose from as basis (for example, when I'm using my Earth Confederation set it shows me both my custom designs and the standard Terran ones). There's a way (by modifing the shipset template files) to force the Designer to show you only the custom templates?

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Gauntlet03

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Not really... see the shipsets we make are still part of the "part sets" of the default races... which then also have their default race ships.

SO for example, I've made 20+ shipsets, and not only do I have sets that "cohabitate" menu space with the default designs for a part style... like Drengin... but multiple other sets of ships from other shipsets of my design because I've been forced to "double up".

There are filters though, to filter out "core designs" and this works and should then make it more enjoyable for you.

I hope that made sense.

PS: I've never successfully tried to make a new parts style, to then apply a custom shipset to... but if it's possible, that would solve your issue.

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You can try setting the ShipStyle to Custom, DLC or Universal. If this works (I have never tried) it will still show all shipsets set to Custom, DLC or Universal as one like it currently does for the defaults like Terran, Drengin etc (I think as I have never tried these to see how the game handles them).

You can see the available hardcoded options in ShipPieceCategoryFilterTypes.xsd in the ShipPieceFactionTypes Table.

EDIT:

This is only doable if you are making them via XML, not with the ingame editor.

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