There are some excellent threads about modding which you should get into reading. First of all, it is necessary to study a little bit on the data structure of CIV4, to find out what a mod really is. This guide is divided into three sections: First is understanding mods, the second section concerns tools for merging, and the third is about planning your work. If two mods do not modify the same file(s), it is as easy as copy-pasting these different files into the proper folders, and youre done!! Your goal is to build new data files that hold both the changes from the two original files, and then making those changes work in tandem. Merging mods is really all about identifying differences in data files, and then figuring out which differences you want to keep, which ones you want to merge, and which ones you want to delete. Working with this stuff has actually taught me a lot about programming and data structuring not that Ill ever need it in my own profession, but it has been a fun experience all along, seeing as I could follow the progress, and feel a little like I was playing my own game (even though I didnt actually program much). And anyone who reads this, probably knows how little help a little HTML is! I started out by playing mods such as Wolfshanze and Dales Combat Mod, and decided that it would be really awesome if I could have both mods going at the same time. This tutorial is for absolute beginners! Going into this, all I knew was a little HTML. I should also point out that I am not a programmer by profession. But please, take some time to get into this stuff yourself, I will not do it for you, Ill only give advice, as I dont have time to mod anything but my own stuff! It is a much more rewarding experience, when you yourself manage to put bits and pieces together, and find out that it actually works! I dont want to take that experience away from you. You are free to ask questions in this thread about merging, and I will try to help you the best I can.
I will use my experience from that work in this tutorial, to provide you some guidance as to how to tackle some of the problems that might crop up. I have succesfully merged quite a few full mods, components and other tweaks into a single, playable mod, the Merged Mod. This tutorial is aimed at providing some help for players who like mods, and who want to play more than one mod combined.
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