Going from Manual to NMM..

[masani23]

So I installed a fair number of retexture mods, and that was before the NMM updated to add Fallout 4 to its listings. However I am wanting to switch over to NMM to streamline the modding process. Do I have to go uninstalling the old textures I put in manually, or will adding them through NMM overwrite the textures/files. For some reason, a few of the mods I am using do not detail what exactly has to be done to manually uninstall them. I could certainly take a guess, but I really would rather not, and was hoping NMM would make things work.

 

There's also two ESPs I have that were added manually. I need to update everything anyway as most of the mods came out with updated versions.

[Uzibeatle]

When I made conversion to NMM for this game from my manually installed and maintained textures, and a few esps I found

it easier to just make notes of what I had installed already, and wipe the manually installed stuff AFTER I made sure a NMM

download version of the mods in question were up.

 

( Only a rare few are not NMM downloadable by now)

 

Is it necessary? No, but it is just ease of life for later down the road.

 

Might as well bite bullet early as it just gets more messy as time goes on and the mods pile up. Trying to

maintain old manual install vs whatever NMM does.. more work than is needed.

 

One tip. I learned NMM is very wonky in the way it overwrites existing textures it finds. I think it is a bug ridden mess and

very confusing on what it actually does when pickinng a choice.

I find it far more consistent to just uninstall a existing mod that I am upgrading, leave it in the archive and install the updated

version. Later on if the old one is no longer needed or wanted, I have NMM delete the archive it keeps.

Same goes for when you overwrite a alternate version of a texture by another author. Best to just uninstall via NMM and then

install the new version of texture xyz by author xyz. If that makes sense.

I still have the various versions of texture xyz and can swap them in and out painlessly as compared to manual messing.

 

 

For mods that might have a invoked ban due to trademark violations, such as music mods, I tend to also

manual install to separate directory for archive reasons, for 'just in case'.

 

I find I like the fact I an create my own categories and move downloaded mods to my defined categories and NMM keeps

track of that when I update a mod. Makes life much simpler for when I will have hundreds of texture mods installed later on.

I just wish I had a method to attach personal notes to each entry if I need to. Not seen a way to do that.

 

Probably more info than you wanted.

 

TLDR. yeah, wipe and go NMM

Edited November 20, 2015 by Uzibeatle