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= Using Wrye Bash = | = Using Wrye Bash = | ||
== BAIN == | == BAIN (aka, Installers Tab) == | ||
The WB installer, "BAIN" (BAsh INstaller), is represented by the Installers Tab. BAIN is one of the most powerful interfaces of WB, as it boasts many handy features that no other mod organizer offers. Once all mod packages are placed within the ''Bash Installers'' directory, they will be recognized from within the BAIN interface where they can be arranged singly or in groups in any order, renamed, list markers added, conflicts detected, packages unpacked, installer wizards can be built and much more. | The WB installer, "BAIN" (BAsh INstaller), is represented by the Installers Tab. BAIN is one of the most powerful interfaces of WB, as it boasts many handy features that no other mod organizer offers. Once all mod packages are placed within the ''Bash Installers'' directory, they will be recognized from within the BAIN interface where they can be arranged singly or in groups in any order, renamed, list markers added, conflicts detected, packages unpacked, installer wizards can be built and much more. | ||
BAIN informs the user of potential resource conflicts ''prior'' to installation and provides details concerning the conflicting resources, mods involved and the order numbers of the involved mods. This allows one to customize mod installation order to achieve the desired result. Perhaps even more importantly, BAIN keeps track of the mod-specific resource hierarchy, allowing simple installation and uninstallation of any combination of mod packages at any point in the installation hierarchy. This means that if a mod installed after a previously-installed conflicting mod is removed, then the assets from the overwritten mod will be re-installed automatically by default (this is the "Anneal" functionality of BAIN). Whats more, BAIN remembers the configuration on exit for the next WB session. | BAIN informs the user of potential resource conflicts ''prior'' to installation and provides details concerning the conflicting resources, mods involved and the order numbers of the involved mods. This allows one to customize mod installation order to achieve the desired result. Perhaps even more importantly, BAIN keeps track of the mod-specific resource hierarchy, allowing simple installation and uninstallation of any combination of mod packages at any point in the installation hierarchy. This means that if a mod installed after a previously-installed conflicting mod is removed, then the assets from the overwritten mod will be re-installed automatically by default (this is the "Anneal" functionality of BAIN). Whats more, BAIN remembers the configuration on exit for the next WB session. | ||
== Bash (aka, Mods Tab) == | |||
From within the Mods Tab, plugins can be managed using many handy tools including the infamous-yet-little-understood "Bashed Patch". The Bashed Patch takes elements from all loaded plugins (i.e., ESPs & ESMs) and merges them into a single plugin, which effectively "flattens" overlapping data conflicts and leveled lists into a single "layer," reducing and de-duplicating disparate attributes and effectively resolving otherwise incompatible data conflicts. Think of mods as a series of transparent films containing layers with opaque bits of a complex graphic. When laid atop one another, each layer adds to the final composite and masks parts of underlying transparencies. Redundancies and conflicting components are effectively merged into an overall result 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. | |||
== Launch Wrye Bash for the First Time == | == Launch Wrye Bash for the First Time == |
Revision as of 02:28, October 9, 2012
A simplified guide to using Wrye Bash to maintain a modded S.T.E.P. setup -- by z929669 & S.T.E.P. Team
- Updated: 2:28:14 9 October 2012 (UTC)