DDSOpt guide needs to be updated when using new MO (1.2.6+)

[dreadflopp]

The folders being created when optimizing the vanilla+dlc textures conflicts with the original mods that are non-mo mods (the new dlc mods). Posted this in the MO section.https://forum.step-project.com/topic/5376-mods-gets-moved-around-when-restarting-mo/

 

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I'm having an issue with MO 1.29, but I had this issue in previous version(s) too.Whenever I start MO, Dragonborn (the new non-MO mod) gets moved to priority 0 and Dawnguard (non MO) and Dawnguard (which is my optimized Dawnguard textures) gets moved to the bottom of the priority list.All this happens in the left, mod window. I reorder the to how they are supposed to be and check that the new order is saved in modlist.txt but whenever I restart MO (or hit refresh) the mods are moved around again both in MO and modlist.txt.Any ideas?

 

 

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You probably shouldn't have any explicitly mods with the same name as the auto-generated ones. Just call yours "Cleaned Dawnguard", "Cleaned Heartfire", and so on... (or "Optimized Dawnguard" or whatever you want.. mine contain cleaned ESMs and [no longer needed with the changes in MO] copies of the original BSAs)

 

 

[Kelmych]

The DDSopt guide was updated with a comment on this.

[Octopuss]

Uh, I don't understand this. What's the problem?

[Kelmych]

Don't use a folder name for the optimized textures that has the exact same name as that of the BSA from which they were extracted. Instead use a name that is at least a little different. If the batch files are used this is already true except for the 3 addon DLCs, and if the textures are archived using the associated batch file the new version will also add "_opt" to all the archive file names.

[Octopuss]

But why? The folders are simply packed into loose files archives, what difference does that make?

Or has anything changed substantially about the optimization process since two months ago?

[ElminsterAU]

MO creates "virtual" mods for the DLCs so you can sort them in the mod order. The name of these "virtual" mods is identical to the esm/bsa files. If you have explicit mods of the same name, Bad Things[tm] happen.