actually there is only ONE tool needed,ie the mod updater, but I am still testing the updating of mods due to lack of time (RL caused)

and another that is also a almost essential  ie mods manifest maker

the actual changes are the changed/added commands in a couple of the entities, (the removed entitys and added entitys, which can be handled by the manifest maker ) and the version number in the targetsinsver.txt file and the new convertdataDiplomacy1.2.exe( a copy of the current one from the game folder), so all in all the actual changes are not huge, just running two utilities one after the other, and the current release of the modding utility pack has all the files needed for all the utilities that I have written for sins and works for all mods converting from sins 1.15,entrenchment 1.00 & diplomacy 1.00 to sins 1.191,entrenchment 1.051 & diplomacy 1.011 but ONLY in the SAME expansion ie it CAN NOT convert a mod from diplomacy or entrenchment to vanilla or the other way, it is ONLY a mod UPDATE within expansion tool

if you want my utility pack it can be collected in this thread

harpo

that IS how the mod updater works, but I compiled the essential changes to the lines in the source and destination changes for each version, and the mod updater first copies the file from the old location to the new, then converts it to text with the OLD convertdata(if the file was in bin), then makes the changes,(and if the file was in bin converts it back to bin with the latest convertdata), then does the same for the next file in EACH of the mods that are in the mods-expansion v#.#### folder it was told to update

harpo