Possible Instructions Tweak Needed?

[Zreyl]

Greetings Neovalen,

 

In the "Clean The Bethesda ESMs" section, the instructions describe:

1. Cleaning the ESMs

2. Moving the resulting backups from .../overwrite/TES5Edit into the .../Skyrim folder

3. Renaming the backups to their original names

4. ... more steps ...

 

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding the process (highly likely), moving/renaming the backups will overwrite the cleaned ESMs we just created, right?  I think you need to add a step between steps 2. & 3.; move the cleaned ESMs to the overwrite folder(?) prior to moving/renaming the backups into the Skyrim folder.

 

Please let me know if I'm way off base.  Thanks again for all your efforts.

[phazer11]

Well. Technically you shouldn't keep anything in your overwrite folder. Ideally you should clean any files and take them out of the overwrite folder and then place them in the folder for their parent mod (overwriting the dirty files) though this can be a little annoying if you somehow screw the edit up and wind up nuking the good file. Always keep backups.

[Zreyl]

Well. Technically you shouldn't keep anything in your overwrite folder. Ideally you should clean any files and take them out of the overwrite folder and then place them in the folder for their parent mod (overwriting the dirty files) though this can be a little annoying if you somehow screw the edit up and wind up nuking the good file. Always keep backups.

Aye, thank you phazer11 and I agree.  In the follow-on steps, Neovalen describes using the "Create Mod" option to generate a mod from the contents of the overwrite folder (thus emptying the overwrite folder).  It's just that, per the current instructions, there would be no contents in the .../overwrite folder and the cleaned ESMs in the .../Skyrim folder would be overwritten by the original (backup) ESMs from the .../overwrite/TES5Edit folder.

 

I just wanted to make sure that the instructions correctly show moving the cleaned ESMs to the overwrite folder (to be processed in later steps), prior to moving the original ESMs back into the Skyrim folder.  Again, unless I'm completely missing the point (likely).

 

Good advise though phazer11, thank you.

[Neovalen]

The action of cleaning the ESMs will move the cleaned versions into the overwrite folder and the originals to the TES5Edit Backup folder also in overwrite.

 

Your Skyrim/Data directory should be devoid of any of the base esm at this point. Therefore moving them back from TES5Edit Backup to the Skyrim/Data folder then renaming to remove the date stamp should not overwrite anything.

[Zreyl]

The action of cleaning the ESMs will move the cleaned versions into the overwrite folder and the originals to the TES5Edit Backup folder also in overwrite.

 

Your Skyrim/Data directory should be devoid of any of the base esm at this point. Therefore moving them back from TES5Edit Backup to the Skyrim/Data folder then renaming to remove the date stamp should not overwrite anything.

Ok, thank you Neovalen.

 

I must have done something incorrectly then.

 

The cleaned ESMs were put in the .../Skyrim/Data folder (not in the overwrite folder) and the original backups were put in the .../overwrite/TES5Edit Backups folder.  I had to move the cleaned ESMs from the .../Skyrim/Data folder into the .../overwrite folder (for later processing with the "Create Mod" option) prior to moving the original backups from the .../overwrite/TES5Edit Backups folder into the .../Skyrim/Data folder.

 

I assumed it was my fault, I'll try to determine what I did wrong.  Sorry for the trouble.

 

Thanks again.

[Neovalen]

The action of cleaning the ESMs will move the cleaned versions into the overwrite folder and the originals to the TES5Edit Backup folder also in overwrite.

 

Your Skyrim/Data directory should be devoid of any of the base esm at this point. Therefore moving them back from TES5Edit Backup to the Skyrim/Data folder then renaming to remove the date stamp should not overwrite anything.

Ok, thank you Neovalen.

 

I must have done something incorrectly then.

 

The cleaned ESMs were put in the .../Skyrim/Data folder (not in the overwrite folder) and the original backups were put in the .../overwrite/TES5Edit Backups folder.  I had to move the cleaned ESMs from the .../Skyrim/Data folder into the .../overwrite folder (for later processing with the "Create Mod" option) prior to moving the original backups from the .../overwrite/TES5Edit Backups folder into the .../Skyrim/Data folder.

 

I assumed it was my fault, I'll try to determine what I did wrong.  Sorry for the trouble.

 

Thanks again.

It has actually happened that way before for some people in rare cases. In my experience most are like mine though where it is properly moved.

[Zreyl]

Greets,

 

In the Final Steps area, it's noted that we should "review the installation section for FNIS".  Except, there aren't actually any instructions for integrating the installed FNIS mod into Mod Organizer.  You might want to include your instructions from the original SR into SR:LE somewhere, either under the FNIS Mod installation (as before) or up in the Prerequisite area...

Install the Fores New Idles In Skyrim - FNIS main file and update as you would any other mod.

Select the data tab in the right-pane and expand "tools">"GenerateFNIS_for_Users".

Right-click on GenerateFNISforUsers.exe and select "Add as executable".

Change the name to "FNIS" and click [OK].

Note that it is now part of the executable drop down next to the [Run] button. Mod Organizer has properly configured it for you already.

Info-Logo.png       Notice do not run this mod now. This mod will be executed in the Final Steps sectio

Thanks again

[ahshamea]

I've just had the same result as Zreyl, where my overwrite folder only contained the TES5Edit Backups folder with the *.backup files. Thought I'd done something wrong too - for quite a while - until I found this thread. :) Maybe a short note to say "*some people have reported that their cleaned files are written directly to the /Skyrim/data folder". It's all a bit overwhelming if, like me, you have very little experience with modding and then a little detail like this can send you in circles for a long time

 

Thanks for the work, I'm finding STEP a great help!

[Yippee38]

Greets,

 

In the Final Steps area, it's noted that we should "review the installation section for FNIS".  Except, there aren't actually any instructions for integrating the installed FNIS mod into Mod Organizer.  You might want to include your instructions from the original SR into SR:LE somewhere, either under the FNIS Mod installation (as before) or up in the Prerequisite area...

Thanks again

Agreed.  I was scratching my head on this one.

[GrantSP]

The way I read that instruction is that you should review the instructions for installing FNIS as described in the MO wiki.

For clarity I've added a small notice immediately after with a link to that section.