Aldebaran

Hello George, 

So I've asked around and this isn't something that has been done before in SBRE and the experts/creators of this format have now left the company. However, someone over at SBRE was kind enough to give some insights on how it could be done, by having a look at the code of the .vrd file. Be aware that the method indicated isn't guaranteed to work ! It is merely a theory formulated after the code was looked at. 

Here's a retranscription of the info I could gather : 

For each objects database, this format is made of a file with all the required information : 

• A file .yaml containing meta-data and objects models (named ${UUID}.yaml)
• Images ${UUID}.${n}.png which define the objects models

This file is compressed into a tar.gz format by Choregraphe, the resulting file gets the extension .vrd, therefore a .vrd is a .tar.gz.

Schematically, in order to merge 2 .vrd files, you'd need to : 

• unzip the .vrd files with tar -xzf ${files}.vrd
• Merge together the .yaml files and the images within the different files and coordinating the index between .yaml files and images
• Reconstitute the database by zipping again the merged files into a .tar.gz, rename it a .vrd with tar -czf.

Hope this could give you a few leads on how to solve your issue !