Mod Cleaning tool for TESIV?

[freewaydog]

Does anyone know of any good ones I could use? I am having trouble w/ Gecko. It's impossible for me to know how to "pick & choose" manually, lest I should pick the wrong cell to clean. W/ Morrowind, I had one that just cleaned the mods automatically, I forget what it was called. It has been so long.

[Deleted1662706User]

Try OBMM, BOSS, or Wrye Bash.

[David Brasher]

There is no reliable way to automatically clean mods. The computer is dumb and does what it is told, but you have intelligence. There is no way to avoid manual cleaning if you want a mod that is truly clean.

 

You may need to actually do research. If the report says you made a change by the main gate of Bravil, and you can't remember if you meant to do it or not, you should go investigate. You don't want to leave dirt, and you don't want to erase the changes you laboriously entered. It is also good to keep some backup files. If you ruin your mod with mod-cleaning, you can just revert to an old version.

 

The computer has no possible way of knowing if the world you envision for your mod involves a change by the Bravil gate. So you are lucky the computer does not automatically mod-clean.

 

For modcleaning, Tes4 Gecko doesn't work well for me either. TES CS is really handy and powerful for modcleaning. TES4Edit is extremely powerful and has so many features that it is hard to use.

[freewaydog]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately, I do not know how to use Wrye Bash. I also have TES4Edit, & I don't know what to do. I see the "info" tab tells you what the background colors & text colors mean, but it does not tell you what to do w/ them. I don't know what to do w/ any of it! I must find easy to understand tuts.

[Balakirev]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately, I do not know how to use Wrye Bash. I also have TES4Edit, & I don't know what to do. I see the "info" tab tells you what the background colors & text colors mean, but it does not tell you what to do w/ them. I don't know what to do w/ any of it! I must find easy to understand tuts.

 

This is a mod cleaning tutorial for TES4Edit. It's very good, and clear. One thing to note, though, is that you shouldn't clean animation/pose mods with it.

 

As for Wrye Bash, you really should learn to use it: no pain, no gain. The basic features aren't difficult to figure out, and it does help clean and arrange mods. Effort is rewarded, in its case.

[freewaydog]

Thanks.