Thanks for the reply Epervier. I'd like to clear up a couple of things. Please bear with me as I am not terribly computer savvy. You say "It is not enough to have the same name. You also have to be the same size for mother-Class !" I checked the size of each of the 7 files listed, both those in the download and those in my current Ship_JFC_Classes folder and each are the same. 4209F9C47E34B326 (2 KB) 2F453DC2440CDD8A (2 KB) B41ABA9E1D37450E (2 KB) D0E820D8C8F83662 (2 KB) 9D6C94F4482C31D6 (1 KB) EC1145FCED6ADC34 (1 KB) BC2508487F558066 (2 KB). So the mother class not only has the same name (I'm assuming the name is the letter/number combination) but the size matches, as do the sizes and names of all of the other six files. I also checked the Ship_JFC_Claases folder in my game for the BB61Iowa and found these were also identical.
Next you mention to, " Check the hier.him you have in the folder (3do\Ships\Yamatov2\).
It must have a total of 1018 lines!With the seaplane it has 1027 lines (the seaplane lines - 1011 to 1019 - are almost at the end)!" When I followed the path Ship_JFC_IJNYamato\3do\Ships\Yamatov2 I don't find a hier.him file that resembles the format found in the No Seaplane folder, but rather a long list of msh mat and tga files among other things. You say that the hier.him file that should be here should have a minimum of 1018 lines (no seaplane) and 1027 with the seaplane. The lines in the Yamato2 folder are not numbered so I did a rough manual count and came up with something around 176. Am I looking in the right place for the hier.him file? And are these msh, mat, and tga files the ones that I need to count?
My next question is, since I can't seem to get the ship to work without the seaplane and catapult, can I safely remove the No Seaplane hier.him file and replace the ship2 without seaplane file with the regular ship2 file, or failing that to safely uninstall everything I have done without breaking the game and start over with a fresh install?
Thanks for your time and patyience.
NavyAce