Any help?
Created ships in ship builder / saved them as templates. They are in the folders however not showing up in the game in which they were created.

All techs are unlocked - just created basic ships with nothing special installed on them.

Not if  templates work Paul said something about the in one of the Streams about taking them out. I think that is what he said. 

Have you tried putting them in the main game Designer folder to see if the show up ??? I would only move one and I would not do this with out making a back up of the folder first!  

OK try this look in new designs and see if they show up under hulls type or size. 

Ravenous16th,

this is because the 'available' ship designs are stored in the save game file. And these 'available' designs are added to it either (in the current game) by designing a ship during game-play or during game creation by scanning the design folder.

Adding designs to the directory will not make them available in already existing game(save)s, because the design folder is not rescanned during an active game or during a game load.

In one of the dev feeds Paul said that they might think about making a 'import' button in the designer to actively load a ship design / part design.

The same happens with the xml files and possible other resources too.

I have requested a feature to allow the in-game updating of xml files for modding and testing, but maybe a similar feature could be requested for ship designers and the (test) users of these designs.

Apparently this is still an issue in 5.1.

I just designed a few ships and saved them as templates and they are not showing up at all in the game. I haven't checked if they show up in a new game, but it just seems odd that a template designed in the designer won't become available immediately. At least they should save as a current in-game design AND as a template.