Bioniclex6 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Hello everyone, this is my first post on these forums. I am pretty new to Oblivion modding, and modding in general. Before now I have only used the Oblivion and DLC unofficial patches. I was wondering if you guys could give me a sort of list of mods/utilities for Oblivion in 2016. Like, for utilities, I know that for Skyrim there is LOOT and TES5Edit; I was wondering if there was anything like that for Oblivion. As for mods, what are the most essential of them for 2016? Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surilindur Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 There should be the same utilities for Oblivion. Considering how Oblivion is also older than Skyrim. At least the following might be handy to learn:Wrye Bash - this one for at least making Bashed Patches, but it also has a ton of other features and can install modsTES4Edit - equivalent of TES5EditTES4LODGen - equivalent of TES5LODGen (for object LOD)Oscape - the same as the one for Skyrim (for generating landscape LOD)OBSE - equivalent of SKSEOblivion Stutter Remover - this one to potentially help with stabilityOblivion Reloaded - visuals, framerate manager, memory purgerAnd as for LOOT, Arthmoor has said that BOSS has been made obsolete by LOOT. And that seems to be the case. I have never used either LOOT or BOSS, though, so I have no personal experiences with either. LOOT says it should work with Oblivion, too. And then there is this: https://github.com/loot/loot.github.io/wiki/LOOT-FAQs#what-happened-to-boss-v3 And as for mods (like mods mods, Oblivion Reloaded is not really a mod as it is), it depends on what you want: visuals, gameplay mechanics, items, quests, something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioniclex6 Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 Thanks. As for mods, I was looking mainly for visual improvement mods. Which are the best ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surilindur Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 (edited) Difficult to give a complete list. But for something to start with, here are some mods I myself use and I definitely like them. Purely my subjective opinion, of course. Oblivion Reloaded (already mentioned this, but it also has the option to change visuals like godrays, depth of field, parallax occlusion mapping, HDR, and it also fixes grass rendering and has first person camera features and everything, just check the mod page and remember to read the readme)Oblivion Character Overhaul 2 (to get rid of potato faces)Qarl's Texture Pack III RedimizedBomret's Shivering Isles Texture PackAnimated Window Lighting System and Chimneys (makes windows glow + smoke from chimeys)Really Almost Everything Visible When Distant (comes with fps drop, but that is where Oblivion Reloaded framerate/distant object manager will help you by managing object rendering based on your fps)Atmospheres 4 (be sure to download the "no blizzard" files as well or else you will get an annoying repeating blizzard following you everywhere)The Imperial Ecology Vanilla Flavour (to retexture flora)Weather - All Natural (you can use this with Atmospheres, just disable all aditional weathers, as well as the changing of weather colour parameters and such in All Natural ini file)Mass Outfit Redesign (I use the non-skimpy options myself) Also, there are some retextures by Lougian in case you are interested. And discovery1 has also lots of other great environment retextures available in additon to those two I linked (Imperial Ecology and Atmospheres). And you can also browse the files by category, like meshes and textures or something. There might be hidden gems out there just waiting for you to find them. Happy hunting! :thumbsup: Edit: Hmm. Odd. There seem to be some formatting issues. Sorry about that. :blink: Edited March 20, 2016 by Contrathetix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 BOSS is being maintained by mhahn123 (manual updates to the masterlist also available here). It is the superior tool for Oblivion load order in my opinion (sorry to disagree Contra). Other than that Contra has you well covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinefort1 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I recommend TES4Gecko for its plugin merging capabilities, which I'm not sure are available in other tools like TES4Edit. I also recommend OBMM, which has options for managing BSA archives, like archive invalidation, and BSA production/unpacking. At least, if these are things that you expect to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surilindur Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 BOSS is being maintained by mhahn123 (manual updates to the masterlist also available here). It is the superior tool for Oblivion load order in my opinion (sorry to disagree Contra). Other than that Contra has you well covered. No problem, feel free to correct me and/or present varying opinions. Single truth is usually not the way to go. And I think you have more experience when it comes to automatic load order tools, I have never ever touched one. So Bioniclex6, maybe you could try BOSS, too. Perhaps it is more concentrated on Oblivion specifically. :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I've always said it takes a team. The only absolute I know is this ... I don't have all the answers. Hell, I'm still working on figuring out the important questions (and I'm an old guy, so I've had lots of time to ponder on that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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