Saving esm hangs TES CS

[biggusgeekus]

I'm trying to make a mod that will take the already installed Apachii Gods/Godesses items and swap them out for the stock armor and clothing. I assumed this wouldn't be that hard since all I'm doing is building new links in the item editors. I make sure I'm using the Oblivion and Apachii ems. I make a change, then save as a new ESM and the TES CS hangs.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks in advance!

[LHammonds]

I don't think you can save changes to an ESM directly. I "think" you have to convert the .ESM to a .ESP, load the .esp, make your changes, save the .ESP and then convert from .ESP to .ESM....assuming you are really wanting to modify the master assets rather than creating an ESP file that uses those assets and simply adds more.

 

I think there is an article on the CS Wiki about ESM files....I created Lamps of Oblivion a long time ago using ESM and ESPs just in case people wanted to use my lamps in their mods (by creating a dependence on the lamps.esm...rather than having to re-create them in their mod)....and I am under the impression it was a wasted effort doing that. :whistling:

 

Articles of Interest:

TES Files

ESP vs ESM

Mod De-Isolation

 

LHammonds