Need help: make DLL file

The best is FL Dev by Friendly Fire, but it’s written for dual-core cpus and doesn’t run well on my single-core steam-driven laptop.

Here attached below is an extract from Drizzt4’s Ship creation tutorial that might help, it’s not as clear as it could be but has screenshots. It uses FlEd-ids.

You could also do it this way using FLID Referrer :-
http://forums.seriouszone.com/showthread.php?54960

My favourite is a combination of ResHacker for stringtables and FL ID Referrer for infocards.

Always be careful, take a copy of the original .dll you are changing and keep it safe in case you mess up completely.

Freelancer Resource Compiler.

adoxa wrote:
Freelancer Resource Compiler.

Excellent tool this one , great work adoxa .

I apritiate the work youve done here Adoxa, but I can’t understand how it works with all those -c and .ext .frc and INFILE/OUTFILE…
Makes me sound dumb doesn’t it?

It’s all in the command line (instructions).
I remember one binary is for compile , one for decompile.
Also it checks for duplicate names (i had this ones in dll too and program found ) and dont compile if it found twice; it also says in which line for .txt file you have the error. Also DLL-s have less size and adoxa introduces such an algorithm that the .txt decompiled file is smaller than the dll :P (it have some shortcuts to reduce the numbers of characters). JFLPs patch dll-s are compiled with this tool i think .

edit : for compile is frc.exe (you have the .txt for the dll you want to convert) - code : frc -c inputtext.txt outputdll.dll
for decomile (dll to txt ) - res3frc -o frc yourresourcedll.dll -o youroutputtxt.txt - or something like this

Here’s a general walkthrough. Let’s say you have an existing dll generated by something else, that you want to convert to FRC. Open a Command Prompt and add the FRC directory to the path (or copy them to an existing PATH directory). You may be able to get away with drag and drop onto the programs, but you’d be better off using the command line. If that’s not for you, you’re probably better off using the existing GUI tools.

C:\path\to\mod>res2frc mymod
```That reads **mymod.dll** and generates **mymod.frc**, a text file. Use something like Notepad to make your changes. A description of the formatting flags is in FRC's readme.

C:\path\to\mod>frc mymod

C:\path\to\mod>frc -c mymod

Rename it - it is a DLL.

If you look closely , FLE makes the DLL in freelancer folder.
Just copy the empty_resources.dll or whatever dll you have in EXE folder and in FL you will see the resources from the dll.
Or maybe you didn`t added in freelancer.ini at [Resources] section.