Sorting Masters for AutoClean

[BlazeStryker]

SSEEdit (I believe, hope, and pray) has scripts to mess with Masters for a mod. THE most frequently used (and deathly necessary) function is sorting yer Masters out. Just as an example; I am looking at the Wrye Smash listing of Masters for the plugin TheIsland_AlternateStartAddon.esp which is the plugin for the optional file adding The Island of the eponymous mod to ASLAL.

The Masters are set up as follows:
Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Dawnguard.esm

HearthFires.esm

Dragonborn.esm

Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

Campfire.esm

TheIsland.esp

You can see the issue (I put the ESP files in italics to make sure) and it's not just Optional Files and Plugins that do this, although they are easily the most egregious cases.

I picked this example as LAL is supposed to be at the bottom end of the LO.

 

So please forgive it's "Oh God, is BlazeStryker b!tching again?" saying this, and consider just how much Masters need to get re-ordered. I genuinely feel it is a serious part of cleaning the plugins. This needs to be an autocleaning function.

Edited November 17 by BlazeStryker
A spelling correction

[IsharaMeradin]

To create a patch file in the Creation Kit all ESP plugins need to be flagged as an ESM.  This process changes their load order position.  If the author does not adjust the relative order between the masters, they will be in the wrong order when the parent ESPs are not flagged as ESM files.  There is a sort masters option in xEdit that authors should use after restoring the correct flag status to their parent masters.  This option sorts the masters to the current load order. It is perfectly fine for an end user to utilize the option for their specific load order set up.  There will always be some mods that want their masters in a different order from others, even if the masters are actual ESM files or ESM flagged ESP files.

[BlazeStryker]

DON'T MENTION THE CASTRATION KIT.

It's the lesser set of tools the Bathysphere saw fit to provide so modders could mod, all the while planning their annual efforts to break the mods and set up grifts for paid.

Besides Autoclean being part of the SSEEdit kit, and not part of Castration Kit at all. it's used to fix matters for eventual further work like DYNDOLOD. Since we're advised to use it for optimizing the plugins, why not the load order?

(And do me the great favor of not EVEN telling me the Bathysphere fixes, well, anything. The absolute horrors of the Degrade for Fallout 4 and Dragonborn still having  over eight hundred and forty ITMs and hundreds of deleted references all these years and several downdates later have taught me better than to believe that errant nonsense!)

 

[IsharaMeradin]

You don't want to use the Creation Kit.  That is fine.  Make mods how you want.  I don't really care.  I explained the cause of the problem described.

It would be up to the xEdit team or someone who understands the scripting language used by xEdit to either modify or create a new script that does what you want.  But there is nothing stopping you from sorting the masters yourself in xEdit on the offending plugin before running the cleaning process for that plugin.

[BlazeStryker]

This. Is. Not. ABOUT. The Castration Kit. This. Is. ABOUT. SKyrim Special Edition Edit. The Sorting of Masters. Is a function. OF THE SSEE, The Skyrim Special Edition xEdit. All I ased for. Is for that SSEE funtion. To be incorporated in AutoClean.

Now Leave off about the Castration Kit as it has nothing, Nothing, NOTHING AT ALL to do with this! Jeeeezus!