Cleaning up the landscape in a mod

[littleork]

Hi

 

I have been working on a mod that added a lot of quests and added some buildings, for the buildings I had to modify the landscape.

 

Now I want to keep all my quests but I want to get rid of the building so I would like to have my landscape reset to vanilla.

 

I tried going in details on my mod and got the ignoring tag on the modified cells, I included the LAND file in the ignored. When I load the mod in the ck, I got a bunch of errors, I did a save anyway since I have been keeping a backup. It didn't work at all and all the landscape was still modified. Since I heard that doing an esm file ignores the landscape, I did that and all the landscape is back to normal. While this fix my problem, I was wondering if there is a way to make it so it does the same on an esp. I don't know much about esm file so I don't really want to release my mod as an esm if I can avoid it.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[David Brasher]

Keep on doing what you are doing only try harder and more times in a row. The CK can modclean out edits to exterior cells in .esp files. Often when the CK gives you an error message, it will fix the problem and when you save and load again, there will be no error message and no problem. It may take several rounds of modcleaning to eliminate all the edits to a cell.

 

Beware of savegame memory issues. You should play-test your changes with a character who has never been to that cell before, because your savegame may remember and preserve the way the cell was before you changed it back to vanilla.

[littleork]

Looks like the problem was that I was using my main toon to play test it, was able to see the changes once I use the *prisoner* from the main menu.

 

Thanks for the help David, I have been able to clean all the cells properly now.