well you cant merge more then 2 at a time, it opens the documents side by side and highlights the differences so you can see what you are changing and can compare. The arrows at the top allow you to change from right-left or left-right, there really isn't anything to it. If the whole document happens to be highlighted its because the lay out is different, you need to use a program like "Notepad ++" to make the layouts on the documents the same so winmerge can show you the exact differences in the lines. Everyone seems to use the pretty print or pretty print with line breaks under the plugins/xml tools are of notepad ++
Merge two Mods with same XTBL name?
- Thread starter ShadowGearX
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Simple steps:
Install Notepad++. Install the XML Tools plugin, as mentioned by ShadowGearX.
Open each .xtbl file in Notepad++ and run Tools > XML Tools > Pretty print (XML only - with line breaks). Save each file. Now they're in the same format.
Use WinMerge to compare the differences between the files. Save one that has all the changes that both files made to the base.
There are other tools out there (such as one of the Git component programs) that can do a 3-way diff to try to merge changes from 2 files while considering a common base file.
The problem is that you're going to need to know something about the game and what the content of the xtbl file means in order to know what you're doing when you merge them. You'd best ask a someone to do it for you, if it's confusing.
Install Notepad++. Install the XML Tools plugin, as mentioned by ShadowGearX.
Open each .xtbl file in Notepad++ and run Tools > XML Tools > Pretty print (XML only - with line breaks). Save each file. Now they're in the same format.
Use WinMerge to compare the differences between the files. Save one that has all the changes that both files made to the base.
There are other tools out there (such as one of the Git component programs) that can do a 3-way diff to try to merge changes from 2 files while considering a common base file.
The problem is that you're going to need to know something about the game and what the content of the xtbl file means in order to know what you're doing when you merge them. You'd best ask a someone to do it for you, if it's confusing.
Well, I had one file that worked pretty well, I guess... It had white lines (going through my mind) or something, so I just used the data from the other xtbl file to fill those white lines, then there were other with different entries or something, so I just used the parts from the other xtbl file to correct those. I ahve no idea if it worked though. xD Guess I'll find out.
You can also compare the files in Notepad ++ with this tool.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/
XML Tools are here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/XML Tools/Xml Tools 2.3.2 r908 Unicode Beta4/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/
XML Tools are here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/XML Tools/Xml Tools 2.3.2 r908 Unicode Beta4/
you need to open the .XTBL file with winmerge and click save, not save as. WinMerge and Notepad++ both open and edit .XTBL files.
changing the .txt to .xtbl may also work but I have no clue and I kind of doubt it.
changing the .txt to .xtbl may also work but I have no clue and I kind of doubt it.
