Merging components on Vanilla ships

[Treewyrm]

Erm. Let me clarify the situation a bit, seems like some people misunderstand how things are related. Wireframe is used for targeting and visualisation on in-game HUD. It's merely a bunch of grouped lines nothing else. It can be connected to mesh parts but is not the cause of destructible parts. Apples and oranges. Wireframe is wireframe, destructible part is destructible part.

Also it's not really about merging as in renaming all parts to Root but rather INI editing, links to destructible parts are contained there. Also you can find information about their hitpoints and so on. Destructible parts are very tightly connected to hitboxes since they use them to determine which part(s) is being hit by projectiles/splash damage.

Sure, time and effort could been invested into, that's ideally, but let's face reality: not with this amount of custom ships we have. Because that would require deleting all custom ships we have and re-working them completely, that's Discovery II. Also will find that a lot of custom ships are incompatible and don't meet necessary criteria for workable hitboxes.