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Hey! Amazing vid, really well done. One thing I noticed though: Im MO user and, after cleaning dawnguard.esm twice it was indeed gone, just like u said could happen for MO users. After that, added it again through the overwrite folder as instructed, dragged and dropped it where it's supposed to be. What you did not mention however, is if this happens in MO (mod disappears cuz the file isn't in /skyrim/data anymore), the plugin also disappears. Meaning, after drag-and-dropping it back where it belongs, you also need to do one final step: run LOOT again to get the plugin load order correct again. Either I simply didn't hear this part, or it wasn't included, but yeah that's the only remark i could come up with.. flawless video otherwise :)
Actually no, there's also the manner of proclaiming it is VITAL to work from top to bottom, yet you have us walk through the tutorial with you by starting out with dawnguard, even though update should load before it. I hope that doesnt give any problems (dawnguard > update > Hearthfires > Dragonborn > etc etc)
Hey DFA = ) Very good point regarding to check the load order and to make sure that all is good by running LOOT. Something that I will mention when the video is updated so that there is no confusion for anyone. Working top to bottom is vital but not in every situation. Say you have two mods that need to be cleaned, one of which depending on the other. You don't want to clean a mod against another "dirty" mod or you may have issues or in the least, not have the mod further down the list cleaned properly. Rare, but can happen. In the video, i don't tell anyone to follow along with the specific mods that I am cleaning = ) This is a tutorial for all tes and fo games, and I dont see many fallout 4 users cleaning the dawnguard.esm = ) .. I use the dawnguard.esm because it makes it easier for those who are using skyrim to understand the process of cleaning dg a second time. A big issues with last video was that folks didn't know what I meant when I said "you need to clean dawnguard twice". -Michael
welcome = ) I'm curious then how you manage to get Skyrim working? Even if you purchase the game disc you still need a steam account to verify the game and to make it work (says right on the box that you need a steam account for the game to work). Bethesda did this intentionally to avoid theft and bootlegging where ever possible. Skyrim shoud not work without a Steam account. -Michael
You guys spend so much needed time and effort on your videos. Even more replying to people in the comments section. I and many others thank you for your hard work allowing us to learn how to properly use programs and features for our games step by step in a easy to understand format. Once again thank you.
I put 2 to 4 hours of work time into each minute of video length = ) Not intentionally lol.. its just how it breaks down. Glad that you have found use in them = ) -Michael
Absolutely wonderful tutorial. Just getting back into modded Skyrim after being away for ages, and this video pointed out a number of things I thought I knew (but was doing wrong). I can't say thanks enough!
Thanks so much for making this tutorial! This was the part of Skyrim modding that I was dreading the most but you made it easy to learn and explained EVERYTHING. Thanks again! I'm going to go check out more (probably all) of your other modding videos.
thank you for putting out an updated video. i just started looking into this earlier this week and your videos have been REALLY helpful. I dont think i would have ever attempted an endeavor like this without someone who had a good expert outlook on it. :]
I never comment on videos, but I have to say I really appreciate you walking through this. I learn so much better from this sort of thing than trying to go get through technical documentation.
U da man! Seriously though love the way your videos are structured and how fast and to the point they are. Although you may not have a huge subscription base yet, your videos are God sent. Please keep up the amazing work. Rgds D13
Great video, it helped a lot. Frankly I'm completely new to modding and navigating my computer in general but your video made it simple and easy to follow! Tysvm.
I don't always stay for commercials, instead of skipping them but when I do, I ALWAYS STAY for yours top quality notch stuff here GP. LOVE your videos.
I had never heard of this channel until this video, but the clarity of your instructions has instantly gained you another subscriber! I look forward to watching the rest of your informative videos... Keep up the good work brother! We need to have more clear, informative, and engaging education on RU-vid (as well as just generally in life). Whenever people try moving into the wondrous depths of PC gaming from the shallow ponds of consoles... Or people try to play with Mods for the first time, or even try to make Mods of their own (and especially people like me coming back to PC gaming after years of Soulless consoles)... we all need information that's easily accessible to us as well as accurate and up-to-date. I feel this has been accomplished here. I hope the other videos are just as good (and may your future videos be as praise worthy) {:~)}
=) Thank you for the Lord Thrain. I've been creating tutorials in this format since the beginning of the year. if you check out the latest video (uploaded yesterday) you will see that I've revised/advanced the process even a bit further. You wouldn't believe the amount of hours that I spend researching and testing these topics and then how long the editing process is. I just can't get myself to go backwards = ) -Michael
Thank you dgs = ) I just wish RU-vid didn't get rid of the implementation of new annotations after this past May 2nd... oh RU-vid and their infinite wisdom lol. Just making timestamps very obvious now. -Michael
Means alot. The difference between what I do and what some others do is just the time put in. It takes me 2 to 4 work hours to complete every minute of content that you view (that's if I have a good understanding of the information of the topic at hand... can take longer in rare situations). I choose to do less uploads and put more work into each video. -Michael
+GamerPoets seriously I was up all night before I got it working on my old computer and I felt such a sense of accomplishment. that was because of you. so I'm belting out some tunes just for you (that no one will ever here; as it should be lol)
thank you for this, i was expecting a major hassle when i was given a warning that asis relied on the unofficial patch when i had usleep installed but your videos helped me figure how to get all of this crap fixed, and with any luck now that I've cleaned the game files the random missing world pieces will have been fixed.
welp septimus signus's outpust still has missing world pieces that let me trap myself forever in the dwemer puzzle cube but oh well, everything else seems to be working so far.
Great video. I'm a complete noob when it comes to modding in Fallout 4.... Seems way more complicated when compared to other games but this video really helped so thank you!
this is by far the best tutorial i have ever watched. the navigation sidebar is indispensable when going back to a video i haven't watched in a while. Donated 10 bucks
I appreciate that sir = ) The newer tutorials of which there is only 1 so far is the final style/format that I will be upgrading/changing to. All navigation will be on the top of the screen now and even a bit more user friendly/aesthetically pleasing = ) -Michael
First off thank you so much for making such great videos. They are professional, well thought out and honestly... you guys don't get enough credit or benefits for the work that you put into every single one of them. Now. As I was following along with the video, I found it odd that the xEdit team would have different versions of the software based on what Nexus game it was uploaded too. So I looked into the file version and the upload time. As of me writing this, the current version seems to be 3.2 and at least for FO4 and TES5 it seems to be the same having been uploaded last on, 27 December 2016, for both games with only (literally) 5 minutes difference. That said, and because I'm absolutely new to modding, and using these tools. I just wanted to make sure that I'm not missing something crucially important that would make FO4Edit different from TES5Edit...
Thank you Aurora = ) I'm actually the only person that creates content. I have a few friends who help respond to comments on the facebook page and give me advice and troubleshooting help. xEdit is the generic name for FO4Edit, TES5Edit, so on. They are all the same program. If you rename FO4Edit.exe to TES5Edit.exe FO4Edit will work for Skyrim... because.. it's literally the same program = ) .. and it's designed so that the .exe name will determine which game to handle. So you simply want to install whatever the latest "xEdit" version to date is and then rename the .exe. Those developing and managing xEdit may or may not remember (or care to) upload the newest version to each site. I know they do their best and they may very well upload the newest verison to each site (FO3, Oblivion, FO4, Skyrim, Skyrim 32/64 so on) but in case they don't, that's what you do -Michael
Oh. Well now I feel silly. Although as I keep trying to get through my brothers thick head. For the doubt the question was made. And for the question the answer was given. 😁 Thank you Michael for the prompt reply. Again thank you for being absolutely, fantastically and brilliantly awesome! 😘
Hey i ran into a issue.. For some reason my Dawnguard Vampire lord is broken? My skyrim is glitched and for some reason as a vampire lord I just slide around on the floor and cant even get through the vampire lord tutroial, when everr i transform I just slide around as a vampire, I cant use spells and if I use Bat travel power I end up turning into bats but stay in my spot, I cant sprint or jump either.. I have run FNIS too btw. I cant use any blood magic and I cant swap to the melee mode so I cant even get out of the vampire lord tutorial.. For some reason my plugin back ups are gone too :/
I love this! You guys really are awesome! I've been playing (and using mods with) Elder Scrolls games since Oblivion. Back then, modding these games was somewhat of a black art and mystery to me. To my knowledge (though I certainly could be wrong), there wasn't a central, authoritative source of up-to-date information which I felt could reliably get me answers for any (or at least most) issues I might have in modding. (Yes, uesp.net was around and it is superb but for modding I didn't find much there, perhaps I just missed it…) I felt like a castaway floundering in an ocean of mod choices without a trustworthy or at least up-to-date guide on how I should go about my modding journey. The learning curve was steep, to the extent that I felt it required a PhD to do things effectively and correctly and due to the varying state of up-to-dateness of the information and the fact that it was scattered all over the place among various sources which may or may not be correct, lead me to question if the PhD journey was even worth it. I finally stopped playing Oblivion since I was spending so much time dealing with all the various mod hassles. It just wasn't fun anymore and detracted from the gaming experience which *should* have primarily been playing the game and not hassling with mod headaches. Your videos are just what I've been looking for. They're detailed and clear enough that misunderstandings are minimized and they provide a lot of good information and references so calling them authoritative wouldn't be amiss. You've just recently published this video so clearly this qualifies as up-to-date. What you along with Gopher and the reddit beginners guide (and probably others which I have yet to discover) have done is give me hope and the desire to mod Skyrim again. A modding PhD is still required and the ocean of mod choices is vast like with Oblivion. The potential for mod issues remains. However, now I have hope that time spent earning that PhD will be worth it. Until such time as modding has progressed to where modding is as simple as a button press (or as you put it a "magical staff of solving") this will have to do and it is a significant improvement to what I knew in the Oblivion days.
That, was a Oblivion of a comment my friend = ) I greatly appreciate it. You may be Sept 3's comment of the day. I appreciate the time you put into writing it. -Michael
Wow, this is straight up VITAL information for beginners. Modding felt way intimidating whenever i did it in the past, but after going through this series, it seems like a breeze now. Before I knew it, I had watched them all! Thanks for this, I hope places like Nexus et al start directing newbies here!
Appreciate it = ) All tutorials take between 50 and 200 hours to create from researching to editing in all of the navigation, so on. Hope it helped. -Michael
You, folks(?), are a life saver !!! You don't happen to have any tut's for how to make patches for VIS (Valdacil's Item Sorting) do you? I'm going to extensively search your uploads, but thought I'd ask anyway in case you feel like answering before I find it. Many, many, many thanks.
So my game stability is great now, but I've had an issue for a long time and I still have this issue. I always crash at certain areas in the game. Mountain pass by whiterun, Dragon bridge, if you choose the right path taking you to the mountains after leaving solitude, there are a few more but every time I go there I get a ctd. My solution has always just been to avoid those areas but I just have no idea what's causing it.
Can be various issues. CTDs aren't generally straight forward. -Could be mod conflict (two mods do conflicting things to the same areas.. though that would generally cause crashes on start up)... Load order.. maybe... -More likely cause is some areas may push your Graphics card/memory in general too far due to high res textures or mods that add lots of objects (higher polygon meshes, too) to specific places... addition of anything in an area will push your hardware and or the game engine -If you remove plugins from your load order mid playthrough you can get weird/random issues/corrupted cells -Deleted navmeshes in mods could be a culprit for something like that as well (crashes in specific places) -Michael
Michael, Thanks for the awesome vids! For new modders having trouble (like me)... I think that the edit programs no longer have hardcoded files for all moddable games. So if you want to mod FO4 get FO4edit and if you want to mod TESV get TESVedit... etc. They all look updated to the same version on nexus.
Yeah, currently all of the pages are updated. You can still just rename the .exe to whatever the game is but they no longer have the file that says "keep with .exe" or whatever? That's odd. Good info. I actually plan on redoing some videos, like xEdit, to show how to install them for each game. I want one to go along with each of my playlists. Just takes time = ) -Michael
Thanks mmc =) My list of things to do never ends. Navmeshes may still get their own video but a lot of other things taking priority these days. -Michael
Awesome video. I am just getting started using the edit programs, and I really needed something like this. I love the best practices advice as well. My goal is learning how to patch weapons and armors into my overhaul mods, Frost and Horizon,. Any advice or links to videos that would be helpful for that? I really appreciate you guys!
I appreciate this video a lot, it really helped. I had a question, however, if you had the time, should we only attempt to clean mods from which LOOT suggests are dirty? For example, I ran up the process to clean the mod "SpringCleaning" (ironic right?) and it seemed to want to remove a worrisome amount of 'Identical to Master' records.
=) Cool name for a mod to clean. Generally, I would say to only clean what LOOT (or BOSS for oblivion) tells you to clean. LOOT is a community supported project that has to be updated manually by its caretakers. So I would report that mod to the LOOT team on github (if it has ITMs) and see what they say. If it has ITMs it will most likely be added to LOOTs list to inform you to clean it but I don't want to make a blanket statement about a mod that I don't personally know of. -Michael
having issues at the permissions part ~08:23 : i have my steam F:NV folder in program files (x86) and when i attempt to alter the security permissions, i have options for SYSTEM which does have full control, some other users and 'ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES' (which currently does not have full control). I am unable to alter these permissions, stating that it failed to enumerate objects in the container, access denied. will FNVEdit still work normally?
Under the "Security" chapter, when I go to the Fallout folder in Steam/Steamapps/Common, when I right-click and choose any of the choices to edit (user, system, or any other choice) for choosing full access, then click 'apply,' I get an error message of "failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied" and then a warning when I click 'cancel' about stopping the propagation of the settings and that I must choose the correct choice to avoid causing a problem. At this point, I'm not sure what the correct choice is supposed to be. Hopefully I didn't mess anything up too badly, and I realize any answer I get will likely be well after my question, but maybe it will help someone else in the future. Thanks for any reply.
Hello again, been modding my Fallout 3 and came to a realization that I have had some masters in it and Skyrim that I happened to do the UDR's before the ITM's. I wanted to know, does this impact my game to demand either verifying the game or doing a re-installation?
First of all, great video it was uber useful for me but i've a question, how to update to the latest Tes5Edit versions? i mean, i need to just drag, drop and overwrite the new files in the existing folder or there is something different to do?
Yup, just drag and drop. Incase there were many updates you may want to delete the old and place the new (in case old files were left out that can't be overwritten). -Michael
I been watching this video a few times now and if the final is better then this then all I can say is "YOU ROCK!!" :) You do know now that because of your hard work that you are going to force many other you tubers to get off their butts and enhance their videos lol. :) That would be something to be very proud of. Single handedly changing the way people set up the channels :) I will check out that map and treasure vid and let you know what I think.
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