Guide:Wrye Bash: Difference between revisions
From Step Mods | Change The Game
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=== Obtain the Mods === | === Obtain the Mods === | ||
#Open a web browser and navigate to the [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11 STEP site on the Nexus], and download the latest STEP PDF link to the wiki guide (v2.2.1 at the time of this writing). {{Notice Small|Yes, the wiki | # Open a web browser and navigate to the [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11 STEP site on the Nexus], and download the latest STEP PDF link to the wiki guide (v2.2.1 at the time of this writing). {{Notice Small|Yes, the wiki STEP Guide (SG) is right here, on THIS wiki, but we ask users to download the link from the Nexus site as a show of support for STEP on the Nexus. Feel free to endorse the project while visiting. Thanks!}} | ||
# | # Once on the SG wiki, carefully read through and up to STEP 2, Mod Installation. | ||
#Download mod | # Study the table legend for a moment, and then follow this section up to 2.D (Fixes). | ||
#Click on the WB program title bar or task bar icon to bring it into focus. This will prompt a refresh of the Installers as the newly-added packages are scanned by BAIN, so allow a few minutes for this process to complete. | # Download each mod from 2.D and move the archives into the Bash ''Installers\'' directory. | ||
#Once BAIN finishes there are a couple of different ways to organize the installers such that the STEP install order is honored; however, it is recommended that packages be renamed according to the sections to which they belong and the numeric order of appearance in the STEP Guide. This simplifies the task of properly ordering packages prior to installation (a VERY important requisite). | # Click on the WB program title bar or task bar icon to bring it into focus. This will prompt a refresh of the Installers as the newly-added packages are scanned by BAIN, so allow a few minutes for this process to complete. | ||
# Once BAIN finishes there are a couple of different ways to organize the installers such that the STEP install order is honored; however, it is recommended that packages be renamed according to the sections to which they belong and the numeric order of appearance in the STEP Guide. This simplifies the task of properly ordering packages prior to installation (a VERY important requisite). | |||
Once WB is set up correctly and the mod packages of interest are deposited into ''Bash Installers\'', it is possible to evaluate which packages are or are not properly recognized by BAIN in order to proceed with installation. A few packages will need to be restructured in order to be properly recognized and installed by BAIN. | Once WB is set up correctly and the mod packages of interest are deposited into ''Bash Installers\'', it is possible to evaluate which packages are or ''are not'' properly recognized by BAIN in order to proceed with installation. A few packages will need to be restructured in order to be properly recognized and installed by BAIN. | ||
== Package Structure & Interpretation == | == Package Structure & Interpretation == |
Revision as of 04:03, January 23, 2013
A simplified guide to using Wrye Bash to maintain a modded S.T.E.P. setup -- by z929669 & S.T.E.P. Team
- Updated: 4:03:51 23 January 2013 (UTC)