How Do I Specify A Hull's Race?

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Where do I go to view and modify which race type a hull belongs to? I can't seem to find it in the hull entries in GC2Types.xml.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It is determined by the prefix of the model name (i.e. S0_Cargo.X).
It is the letter 'S' followed by a number - 0 thru 5 (with a TRAILING UNDERSCORE) - for the 6 ship styles.
Another prefix - S99_ - can be used so that the hull is available to all races.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And you can also use number 6+ to effectivly create new styles, the only problem being that it won't display in the race set-up screen.

You can get by this by writing it into a race config file manually (the files in you My Documents/GalCiv2 for playable races, the raceconfig.xml for AI races) and then set the file to read only to prevent the game from resetting it.

I've done this to spread out the ship styles a bit more, creating an Arcean style that contains only one of each human style hull (one tiny hull, one small hull etc).