modding with Vortex

[Davrehck]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but a while ago I bought Fallout 3 game of the year edition on Steam. I have placed the base game a long time ago, and I had moded the game before Nexus mod manager and Vortex. I’d like to use Vortex again to mod it, rather than Fallout mod manager, simply because my experience with Modding using that, is taking out the folders and putting them in appropriate places.

 

Like a YouTuber had said, Vortex makes things easy, and I had read that someone managed to get Fallout 3 mods to work using that. Mostly, I’d like to get some mods that change Megaton, including the player home in that, but I was thinking of just getting the Underground bunker, or underwater bunker, since it has the sorting capability that I like. I’d also would like to get the Cheat menu, and levelers if such a thing exists, and lastly, something to modify energy weapons, to strengthen them. Oh, and a Beauty/Body mod. Will these works with Vortex?

I did try to use a CBB mod using vortex, but it didn’t work. Is there any specific way?

Edited February 26, 2022 by Davrehck

[deu58]

If you mean adding already created NEXUS mods Vortex is pretty nice. But if you are creating your own mods I personally had bad luck with Vortex. The problem was trying to delete the old ESP. There were sub folders in a separate location that stored older esps and it kept overwriting my edits. It was a real mess. Vortex puts its own file in every folder at every level in your texture, mesh etc folders in the data folder . I ended up having to do a complete game re install to get rid of Vortex.

That was like 3 months ago so maybe they have advanced the program to be more friendly to deleting unwanted mods. Vortex is really nice for just downloading and playing. But for creating your stuff I found NMM to much friendlier.

[showler]

If you're making mods you should be purging every mod that you aren't incorporating anyway. Ideally using Vortex's Profiles option to switch to a vanilla game before making your mod.