Eh? Complicated?
You and I apparently achieve this using extremely different means.
-S'Cipio
That wasn't a very polite or useful comment on my part. My apologies
Here is what I have in mind. You can tell me where my plan goes off the rails:
1) Open the shiplist in excel, and drag down the model pointer column to highlight all the entries in the "Empire" list.
2) Under Edit/FindReplace, choose to "replace_al"l instances of OPPLUS with EMPIRE
Work on the shiplist is now done. All the Fed entries still point to the Fed ships in the OPPLUS folder. All the Empire entries now point to a duplicate model folder in a (to be created) EMPIRE folder
3) In the SFCOP folder, create a new folder named EMPIRE and put a new folder in it called models
4) Add to the installer lines which copy all the Fed folders from OPPLUS/models folder to the new EMPIRE/models folder.
I'm not sure what software Pesty uses for his installers, but in all the intallers I've made for my servers or for Slave Girls, this would be the work of little more than an hour. Heck, I can do that while my EVE character learns a new skill.
The change is transparent to people who don't want to mess with their models. They will see exactly the same models for both races that they currently see for Feds. For people who want to, however, they can make the Emprie ships look a bit different.
-S'Cipio