[REL] Vice City DLL linker

[Squiddy]

Please forgive me that name, but I'm not that creative in these thinks.

Many people asked for it, so here it is. You're now able to use more than one dll with vice city. I allready showed some code in the spookie's thread. But I changed a little thing.

Let's call it the base, it's just a little dummy d3d8.dll, that reads out a textfile (common.cfg) with all mods that should be loaded. So all mods that support this, just have their own internal name.

 

common.cfg

 

begin;sa_hud;speedo;end;

 

 

The d3d8.dll reads out the next dll, which would be sa_hud and loads up sa_hud.dll. So internal name has to be the same like the filename. Once sa hud is loaded it calls speedo and so one. When one dll get's "end" as next dll, it calls our real d3d8.dll in the system directory. So unless you add an old dll which doesn't supports this and therefore calls the real automaticly, there has to be an end inside this file.

 

I set up a little page to explain the installation, which is in fact very easy. But as my english is not the best, feel free to ask about things, offer suggestions or just your opinion, which is very welcome.

http://gtareactor.justgamers.de/squiddy/

[Pagnell]

Nice work again, sounds very useful.

[htsb8]

first,thank you for your reply!

 

i must dl it and run at once

....

there is something wrong,i run the game with it ,but just sa_hud is ok,others isnt running,i changed other dll files,the same result.

 

i did it as you said that:

i dl it from http://mitglied.lycos.de/vaugn/mods/ ,and then i changed the file of the speedo to speedo.dll,and then i put sa_hud.dll in GTA folder,and put your d3d8.dll of the dll-linker in the game folder, then i edited the common.cfg like this:

 

# GTA:Vice City DLL Config#   All dlls listed here will be loaded by the game.begin;speedo;sa_hud;end;

 

 

run game,OH!the speedo just was displayed!and No sa_hud;then i edited .cfg again

 

# GTA:Vice City DLL Config#   All dlls listed here will be loaded by the game.begin;sa_hud;speedo;end;

 

 

the result is the opposite:displayed the sa_hud,and no speedo.

 

i have a d3d8.dll of the loaded mission,i did it,too,and the result is the same.

 

oh,which process is wrong?

 

thanx

 

[htsb8]

first,thank you for your reply!

 

i must dl it and run at once

....

there is something wrong,i run the game with it ,but just sa_hud is ok,others isnt running,i changed other dll files,the same result.

 

i did it as you said that:

i dl it from http://mitglied.lycos.de/vaugn/mods/ ,and then i changed the file of the speedo to speedo.dll,and then i put sa_hud.dll in GTA folder,and put your d3d8.dll of the dll-linker in the game folder, then i edited the common.cfg like this:

 

# GTA:Vice City DLL Config#   All dlls listed here will be loaded by the game.begin;speedo;sa_hud;end;

 

 

run game,OH!the speedo just was displayed!and No sa_hud;then i edited .cfg again

 

# GTA:Vice City DLL Config#   All dlls listed here will be loaded by the game.begin;sa_hud;speedo;end;

 

 

the result is the opposite:displayed the sa_hud,and no speedo.

 

i have a d3d8.dll of the loaded mission,i did it,too,and the result is the same.

 

oh,which process is wrong?

 

thanx

[Lurven]

This doesn't work at all for me, it only loads the first dll.

[SoAmusing777]

Link is down...

[Link2012]

Link is down...

Either

• Rename the .dll to .asi (e.g. Vice City Dir/speedo.asi)
• Get Ultimate ASI Loader, rename the .dll to .asi and drop it into the scripts/ directory.

The first method should work but some mods may want to run before the splash screen, then you'd need the later method.

[Alpha Ice]

The instructions are very unclear.

Edited August 23, 2015 by Alpha Ice