Is it safe to reinstall mods with a FOMOD installer midgame?

[kplusa]

I'm in the middle of a modded playthrough and wanted to change the settings of a mod or patch it. Unless it has MCM integration, the only I way I can do this is by reinstalling the mod using the FOMOD installer. Is it safe to do this in Vortex?

Unless it's explicitly discouraged by the mod author in the description/posts tab, I honestly can't tell.

[subaverage]

Maybe you could specify which mod. It might be unsafe if the mod is scripted and during reinstall you would get different scripts than before. To be sure you could make copies of your game folder, your ..Documents\My Games folder and the plugins.txt.

Edited 11 hours ago by subaverage

[kplusa]

Darker Nights mainly alongside some other lighting related mods like Tactical Flashlights 

Unfortunately, I haven't memorized all of my mods that have FOMOD installers.

I also use STS but the mod author already told me it was safe to reinstall via FOMOD. 

Why do I need to back up plugins.txt and the game folder? I have already backed up the saves in case those get corrupted by mods but what's the purpose for the other ones?

Edited 10 hours ago by kplusa

[subaverage]

i don't exacty know how Darker Nights work. It might change the shp settings, but looks to be save to change during a playthrough. In case you get bad results the defaults are: shp 4.0,0.02,0.02,0.65,0.2,0.3,1.5,3.6,2.0 for use in console. Before use you could uninstall Darker Nights completely, use the command, make a save and reinstall the mod with the new settings. Tactical Flashlight seems to be scripted and using different scripts might or will leave the now used scripts in your savegames. This can cause difficulties on the long run.

[kplusa]

What are shp settings? 

Just to clarify, if I want to try Darker Nights with different settings in my game, I should:

1. Uninstall the mod completely from my mod manager
2. Load the modded save and type "shp 4.0,0.02,0.02,0.65,0.2,0.3,1.5,3.6,2.0" in the console
3. Save and exit
4. Reinstall Darker Nights but with different settings

Did I get that right?

Edited 8 hours ago by kplusa

[subaverage]

SHP settings are hidden settings for the ingame graphics. Like contrast, brightness, colorfulness, etc. Normally changing these values is not persistent. A mod might do this. As I don't know how Darker Nights works I would beleive this way would be safe. But you can try to simply reinstall the mod with other settings and see what happens. If the results are bad you still use the way I described.

[kplusa]

So far, nothing bad has happened. I haven't made a save yet with Darker Nights and/or Tactical Flashlight enabled though.

I'm just testing the various settings through reinstallation on my mod manager or by adding variants. I play for around 15 minutes before I leave the game without saving.