Is it possible to combine 2 or more .dlls?

Trainwiz wrote:
Say I have two NameResource.dlls in two seperate mods, both have alot of info, but I want to basically combine them. Anything out there, a technique or tool, that would allow me to combine them both into one.

Because you can combine more than one mods i guess you can combine two dlls as well.
But dont forget: If the dlls contain ids names, infos or else on same slots with different contents it may cause ctd or worst.
I dont advise to do this.

You have to do it by hand. Either you combine the two DLLs in a single DLL file (not recommended if you have a lot of entries since each DLL can hold up to 65536 entries at max), or you put both of them in sequence.

Either way, you’ll need to completely change the ID numbers of either in all the files that might reference them and I don’t know of an app that can do that automatically.

FriendlyFire wrote:
You have to do it by hand.

Yes, almost all things can be done by hand. lol

Most res in NameResource.dll store in string (not html, like infocards.dll), So you may try this Restorator, it can make your hand faster.

Sure, that might help with combining the resources themselves, but there’ll still be a fair bit of effort to change the numbers in the ini files.

Resource Hacker is probably just as good, and it’s free. Myself, I prefer to work with the actual .rc source.