lavarob Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) Just trying to figure out stuff for future where I might be able to make mods for these games. I know literally nothing about .dll files - once I tried to open one the content was not something I could make sense out of. Does someone know what to do in order to open/edit one in a way that I could predict a working end result? Edited December 13, 2019 by lavarob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlp Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 There is no simple answer to this. It is entirely dependent on the DLL itself and which changes were made to both the game engine and the script extender. Last update was "easy" as "nothing important" in the game was changed. But that is definitively not the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carreau Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 The plugin itself has to be compiled with new addressing based on changes made in the EXE that impact run time addressing, which in turn affects F4SE addressing. The only way to recompile the plugin is to have the source code Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWolf01 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Hey Lavarob - I've done just a tad bit of research into this, as at one point in time, I'd thought it would be cool to see if I could alphabetize the way that stuff shows up in looksmenu.You'll need a tool capable of decompiling the file. I used a search in yahoo for how to edit dll files and that turned up some leads. I never got any further than that, however. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavarob Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) If I would have the source code what would I need to do with it? (and yeah the update I'm talking about is the most recent one) Edited December 13, 2019 by lavarob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWolf01 Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) If I would have the source code what would I need to do with it? (and yeah the update I'm talking about is the most recent one) [edit] actually, depending on what all was changed, it could be something as simple as changing a version number. Or it could be a lot more. It depends on what was changed to make the mod compatible with the game change. [/edit] Hey Lavarob - I've done just a tad bit of research into this, as at one point in time, I'd thought it would be cool to see if I could alphabetize the way that stuff shows up in looksmenu.You'll need a tool capable of decompiling the file. I used a search in yahoo for how to edit dll files and that turned up some leads. I never got any further than that, however. you're talking about program files here. see what I emphasized in my first post :wink: Edited December 13, 2019 by StormWolf01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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