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WB's two main uses are found under the Installers Tab where resides "BAIN" (BAsh INstaller) and the Mods Tab where mods can be managed using many various tools including the "Bashed Patch". The Bashed Patch takes elements from various mods and puts them into one plugin, which resolves many mod conflicts. Think of mods as a series of transparent films containing layers of a complex graphic. When laid atop one another, each layer adds to the final composite. Redundancies and conflicting components are effectively merged into an overall mean that is a composite mod called the Bashed Patch. This allows otherwise incompatible plugins to coexist, and many mods are completely merged into the composite, thus effectively circumventing the 255 plugin limit, since byte references to completely mergeable mods are no longer required. BOSS is still required to maintain load order, and it can be launched BOSS directly from WB. | |||
BAIN is a more powerful mod manager than NMM, because it clearly shows you what it's doing. You can see conflicts and you can arrange the order in which mods are installed, so you can control which mod overwrites the assets from another mod. It's greatest strength though is that when you uninstall a mod, it uninstalls it completely and if there were assets that overwrote another mod, it will automatically reinstall those assets for you. | |||
Using BAIN really is as simple as dragging an archive to the BAIN Installers directory, but you do need to make sure that the archive is BAIN compatible (this just means that the root directories are textures, meshes, etc instead of several layers deep). | Using BAIN really is as simple as dragging an archive to the BAIN Installers directory, but you do need to make sure that the archive is BAIN compatible (this just means that the root directories are textures, meshes, etc instead of several layers deep). | ||
Revision as of 05:22, June 7, 2012
Template:TOC left Template:Notice A simplified guide to using Wrye Bash to maintain a modded S.T.E.P. setup -- by z929669 & S.T.E.P. Team
- Updated: 5:22:54 7 June 2012 (UTC)
Installing & Maintaining S.T.E.P Using Wrye Bash