Huge mess "Rules contain cycles"

[Reexhs]

Hi everyone !

I'm new to modding and I think I've made a huge mess in Vortex. I downloaded ESO UI Mod List then added some other mods and it worked pretty well.

And I then I added an other mod and everything fell off, I clicked something and everything is broken. Now Vortex shows this alert "Mod rules contain cycles". I understand that it means certain mods have to be loaded before an other but the issue is too big for me.

Can someone help me with all of this ?

[7531Leonidas]

Did you click on any of the arrows in the above notification?  I think that it should have opened a 'dependency web' diagram that might help you sort out the problem more easily.  It will be a mass network of lines between your mods in that list.  Just upon scanning through the above, it looks like you have some/many patches loading before the main files, and that is not usually the way things are done.  There are some that work that way, though, and you might have to go to the mod pages and double-check.  The Fantasia Landscapes sequence definitely seems bugged, with the main Fantasia Landscapes loading after the parallax and yellow tundra files.

The general idea is that the more specific files should load after the base mod that it affects.  You could also go to the 'Dependencies' column in the Mod section of Vortex, and click on the lightning bolt by a single mod, and see what the rules are for that specific mod, and can clear just the rules for that mod, then try again.

[Reexhs]

10 minutes ago, 7531Leonidas said:

Did you click on any of the arrows in the above notification?  I think that it should have opened a 'dependency web' diagram that might help you sort out the problem more easily.  It will be a mass network of lines between your mods in that list.  Just upon scanning through the above, it looks like you have some/many patches loading before the main files, and that is not usually the way things are done.  There are some that work that way, though, and you might have to go to the mod pages and double-check.  The Fantasia Landscapes sequence definitely seems bugged, with the main Fantasia Landscapes loading after the parallax and yellow tundra files.

The general idea is that the more specific files should load after the base mod that it affects.  You could also go to the 'Dependencies' column in the Mod section of Vortex, and click on the lightning bolt by a single mod, and see what the rules are for that specific mod, and can clear just the rules for that mod, then try again.

Thanks for your answer 

I managed to fix Fantasia but I don't understand the problem with Lux and Water. Even with the network it's pretty hard for me. I already have patches after the main Lux and Water files but doesn't seam to work.

[AaronOfMpls]

I'm guessing Unofficial Lux Parallax Patches needs to come after Lux itself somewhere. 

(But just a guess; I don't use any of these mods or Vortex.)

[7531Leonidas]

I think that there is a way to highlight individual cycles in that spaghetti-like dependency diagram, maybe right-click on an individual arrow to get Vortex to highlight only the cycle that one arrow (interaction) is involved in, and try to see which of the arrows need to be reversed in that cycle to clear it.  The diagram will reset itself once you do.

However, I see that you still have Unofficial Lux Parallax Patches loading before Lux, which in turn is loading before Lux Orbis - Riften of Reverie Parallaxed, which in turn loads before Lux Orbis.  Check the parent mod sites to double-check, but I am pretty sure that at the very least, Lux Orbis should be loading before any patches that apply to it.  The Unofficial Lux patch is almost certainly out of place, too.  I have read comments that getting Lux stuff to work together can be very tricky, or just very picky about load order.

Maybe someone else will confirm, but I am pretty sure that all of the parallax patches should be installed after their parent mods, and you have to choose the order in which you want the parallax meshes/patches to be applied to best preserve them.  As an example, if you wanted to make Riften of Reverie load before Gravunlom, so that Gravunlom is preserved/wins in conflicts, then their respective patches must also be applied in that order, any Riften of Reverie parallax stuff should load before Gravunlom parallax stuff.