Are we talking about the same ship model? I just tried out Armadas files and I did rename everything but I got a crash, then I went into the GM viewer and saw that Armada's ship is different from the CoAS ship we have.
My fix IS for the same ship, but the files are named differently, so you'd be forgiven for thinking it's different.
The camera issue was fixed by using a different model as FR_SoleilRoyal (SoleilRoyal1), which is the 'root' model that determines where the camera centres in 3D sailing mode.
The original hull model was renamed to FR_SoleilRoyal_part1, and added to the new root model with a locator.
It's this root model that can be seen in Jack867's screenshot below; it's a cut down version of the San Felipe, and it's supposed to be invisible,
but you guys don't have the alpha textures that I assigned in PotC. I forgot about that.
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You'll need to rename an alpha texture to 'blnk.tga' and 'san_blank.tga', or HEX edit the model to work with different ones.
Anyway, the files shouldn't cause a crash if installed correctly; we haven't had any problems in PotC yet.
Still, I'm curious about the version you acquired from a Russian site. Can that model be opened in TOOL, do you know?
That could be the key to fixing the ship properly without all these workarounds.