DLTCEP vs. Near Infinity vs. Weidu
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Can somebody please explain whether DLTCEP is significantly different from Near Infinity? In particular, DLTCEP has buttons for dialog editing, just like Near Infinity, but with the latter I was recommended to use Weidu for compatibility, even though Near Infinity has its own dialogue-writing tool. So please tell me:
1) Is Weidu absolutely obligatory?
2) How does DLTCEP manage to do without Weidu? It is obviously an older tool, but it seems to have all the functions and its tutorials don't mention Weidu. Apparently people made mods before without having to use it. How?
1) Is Weidu absolutely obligatory?
2) How does DLTCEP manage to do without Weidu? It is obviously an older tool, but it seems to have all the functions and its tutorials don't mention Weidu. Apparently people made mods before without having to use it. How?
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You can use nearinfinity to edit copies of your game to add dialogue. Once a new patch lands that will go away and you'd have to recreate whatever you did.
With weidu you can create a script to patch in whatever dialogue. Once a patch happens and wipes that out, just run your weidu again and the same changes would be replicated. Also if you want to send anyone else your dialogue, use weidu to ensure they get the same changes.
For example, you can patch irenicus to be blue with nearinfinity. it creates a local copy of blue irenicus in your override folder. Another guy creates irenicus who says "I am a chicken" with nearinfinity so he has a copy of that in the override. If you send your blue irenicus it would overwrite his chicken irenicus once he puts it in his override. So say you use weidu it will patch irenicus blue. You can send that to your friend and it would patch his chicken irenicus to blue without overwriting.