Habasi - TES3 plugin merging and utility tool

Preface:

Version 0. 1. 0 release announcement

Version 0. 2. 0 release announcement

I love khajiits. I've already presented Jobasha, that will perfectly organize all your lists in his library(Leveled List Tool). Now it's time for Habasi to step in.

Goals:

• [] Overcome plugin quantity limit

  [] Bring more order into mod lists

  This program was created primarily to fight game limit of used plugins. "Morrowind.exe"(256), MWSE(1024), OpenMW(no limit from engine, though most operating systems have some kind of limit for simultaneously opened files per process). I use a lot of mods and hit the limit on MacOS(256), Linux(varies, 1024 default in case of Arch) and Android(1024). OpenMW opens lots of files besides plugins, so 1024 opened files limit was hit at around 600 plugins simultaneously on Linux and Android. It's easy to overcome the limit on MacOS and Linux, but it's somewhat hard on Android. It's easier to merge plugins.

  I've used self-made tes3cmd scripts to merge half of my plugins for a year. It's faster and easier to merge plugins after updating them with scripts, than trying to do that in very slow construction set. Scripts were primitive though, so everything with external references, same cell references or many dialogues was off-limit. The program deals with all those things correctly and much faster. You just install, keep and update all your plugins in their own folders, run program and use merged plugins afterwards.

  The only problem with merging is cell reference renumbering. You can not merge several references with the same id while keeping their ids intact. That means that you should not merge/remerge plugins that contain non-external references(most of the plugins) during the playthrough. I'd also generally not recommend merging 4 base ESMs(Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon, TR_Mainland) to allow leveled lists merging tools work correctly with deleted subrecords(only few tools are able to do it though, that's the main reason I've made Jobasha).

  There are also record mergers: TES3Merge, Merged Lands, all the leveled lists mergers etc. I only use leveled lists merging, though I've made sure that most of those(tested with tes3cmd, TES3Merge, Jobasha) would continue working with merged plugins the same way as with unmerged. It's done by keeping different variants of mergeable records in a merged plugin by default.

  Secondary reason to create the program was the desire to bring more order into mod lists of the users of my patches. Some of the files I've uploaded contain dozens of individual patches: "BTBGIsation" ~115, "BTBGI - Modular Patch" ~80, "Miscellaneous Patches" ~65, "Wares-base Expansion" ~38 etc. I offer merged versions, but in some cases only OpenMW users may use those versions due to "Morrowi