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I merged about 140 plugins. The plugin works fine, but mergeplugins has a list of errors. Occasionally I have minor hiccups. Is there anyone who can help me understand what the various errors mean, which ones are serious, and how to go about fixing them?

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Have you seen the "Merge Plugins Guidelines for Personal Use" article? While Mator's "MergePlugins Standalone" tool (the replacement for his xEdit script) is handy, it has definite limitations, among which it states are that it isn't for merging plugins with scripts or patches. "MergePlugins Standalone" uses the "merge down" technique, which means all the records get new FormIDs. Patches (especially "compatibility patches" for multiple mods) and scripts need to be "merged up" with xEdit in order to preserve the FormIDs in the original "master" plugin.

 

Choosing the plugins to be merged carefully will mean the simplest ones can easily be combined with "MergePlugins Standalone". The "merge up" process is more labor intensive. But you still have to pay attention to where the plugins fit into your "load order". Just because they are merged does not mean you can ignore their effect on other plugins. It will be necessary to have several sets of merged plugins.

 

PS: As you have a "double post", you might want to edit the earlier one to remove it's content so replies are confined to this one.

 

-Dubious-

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thanks dubious, I did read just that article yesterday and am learning alot. I don't know how I ended up with a double post. The board said the first one was blocked because I was posting so quickly, so I waited and made another one, and realized I had two.

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Do you think some of these errors are caused by merge plugins renaming formids that conflict? If so can I simply allign the old formid references with the new form ids that merge plugins assigned to them? For example:

Fails[128]: [REFR:94FF7FFF] (places RubbleBlockade03 [sTAT:0006EE20] in GRUP Cell Temporary Children of [CELL:94FF8083] (in 000thecity "The City" [WRLD:94FF80E1] at 7,1)): [05000B01] < Error: Could not be resolved >

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This is what I did. I found almost all of the major errors seems to originate from three plugins: dog city, city of adventurers, and the torn city. So I used the deep copy as override into and made a separate plugin with the records of these 3 plugins.

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I was advised that "deep copy as override" should be avoided if possible as it doesn't always work as expected. (Don't know the details.) But if that is what it takes instead of just "copy as override", then that is what it takes. So I would examine and test that merged plugin as thoroughly as possible.

As for your earlier post about why some of those errors occurred: I'm guessing that the mod index of "94" is the result of the "MergePlugins" tool. The 'GRUP Cell Temporary Children of [CELL:94FF8083]' is numbered earlier than '(in 000thecity "The City" [WRLD:94FF80E1]'. Pretty sure that logical inconsistency (a child cell occurring before the parent) is the problem, and a result of "merging down". When merging up there is a specific sequence required to avoid such (see the wiki template file "Multifile Merge-Up Procedure - Step 4" from a WIP article).

 

-Dubious-

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