CookieSalesman Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Is it possible or safe to make changes in installing/uninstalling/reordering esp/esm files in the main menu? What about during a game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iv121 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I'd say impossible ... If it will allow you to do it you may crash skyrim. It shouldn't do any permanent damage though ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieSalesman Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 (edited) I'd say impossible ... If it will allow you to do it you may crash skyrim. It shouldn't do any permanent damage though ... Do you mean in the main menu or during a game? Anyways, NEAT mod, I always wanted that. I hope it'll be avaliable... after I fix my mod catastrophe. Edit: You should give the option between enhancing both the college of winterhold storyline and magic combat experience or just improving the storyline. Edited June 27, 2012 by CookieSalesman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 The utility programs that allow installing/uninstalling/reordering esp/esm files are not functional while playing. All of the info from mods and load order is loaded each time the game starts, then those programs close. If you mean, can you make changes to a game you are playing - while not actually in the game - Yes, that is exactly how it's done. Close the game, make your changes, the start the game and resume where you left off. The changes take effect when the game loads. :thumbsup: If you mean, pause the game and tab out to make the changes. No, that won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrivener07 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 http://www.bethblog.com/2012/06/19/creation-kit-hot-loading/ See if you can use this to reload your plugins. Normally plugins are only loaded when the game starts but using this you may be able to change a load order and then hot load all the plugins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tox2ik Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I guess it is possible to create some sort of interface to view and reorder plugins using one of the script extenders, but it's not exactly a trivial task. It would require someone with the adequate skill-set and interest in making this work for it to become reality. To be honest, I don't think anyone will use the hot load feature to do their load-ordering in-game or from the main menu. There are superior tools for this out there. One the other hand, if you're not already familiar with bat files and want to load several plugins without typing them all manually every time you could create a .txt file in the Skyrim folder which would look like: hlp plugin1.esphlp DrelasCottageMod.esphlp anotherPlugin.esp and using the console you could use bat filenameWithPluginList to run all those commands at once. Mind you I haven't actually tried this, but it doesn't seem to far-fetched to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieSalesman Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) So... can I make effective plugin changes whilst in the main menu or not? I mean main menu by the first damn screen you see when the game starts, shortly after the Bethesda intro. Edited June 28, 2012 by CookieSalesman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrivener07 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I think so? Sounds like you havent tried anything yourself. I already mentioned how to hotload a plugin and the console works fine in the main menu. TRY IT :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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