Even without TES5edit I looked into the merged plugins esp with the notepad and discovered that, at the top of the file they had some or all of the old plugins as masters, along with the Skyrim plugin and the expansions when needed. Or equal to master records or something like that. I just used it to clean the game and expansion plugins for errors and itm, i think it was called.
I do have TES5edit and running as an executable through MO, yes, but I barely know how to use it. After merging plugins the new merged plugin should not include in the list of Masters any of the plugins that were merged. You can look at the file header record and it will show all of the master files for the plugin. Include the plugin in an MO profile and then start TES5Edit with Mod Organizer (I'm assuming you have setup TES5Edit as an executable in MO) and select only the new merged plugin. Not even my father, a true magician of the Net and the Motherboards, found the root of this problem.Īfter you create the merged plugin using Merge Plugins try looking at the plugin with TES5Edit. I have gone desperate for help, even to ask for it in the tutorial video. done adding masters", so no master were added in any merge), but this artificial master file dependency goes on. Even the logs says that all went well (all the merge logs says: "adding masters. I followed each and every step provided by the Nexus page, the STEP guide, the GamerPoets youtube video, rebuilding merges again doing other things, following again the guides, touching the. even when I merged all of them together in one. For example, the armor pack of merged armor mods that I created needed each old individual plugin to be activated: Stormlord Armor, Armor of Intrigue, Talos Housecarl. It happened to me for all the merged plugins I have created.
Those masterfiles were the very same plugins that I merged together to create the merged plugin. The first of the new merged pluging, created through Merging Plugins, gave me a warning that master files were missing. in order to create a new game and play (because starting a game with mods activated is not advised.), I also deactivated the plugins of those mods I have already merged, for the new merged. esp the same way it is shown at the video and proceeding to deactivate plugins in M.O. So, I watched GamerPoets tutorial about "Merging Plugins Standalone" (nexus index 69905) and followed every direction it gave. But I have never merged a single mod before. I have recently discovered the world of merging plugins, after so many years pf playing Skyrim, using Mod Organizer, LOOT, FNIS and so on.