CK Version Control - Can't Check In

[Hellscreamy]

EDIT: I noticed I had forgotten to also add the Skyrim.esm and Update.esm files to my Merging folder, not sure if it was fix'd because I ran into a completely other problem now.

 

We are currently a small team working on a large mod and we wanted to use the Creation Kit's Version Control to merge small ESP's into the main ESM.

The main ESM already contains a worldspace, npc's and items. Nothing from the Skyrim.esm or Update.esm are being changed, we only add new things.

 

I have used two tutorials (see below) to activate VC and managed to get the button to appear. I loaded the ESM we wanted to merge everything into and the ESP file we want to merge.

I click the VC-button and select all the entries and uncheck them. The problem starts when I try to do a check-in. I get the Old Editor Warning, saying I should first update my CK before I can check in.

 

It might be related, but when I click Check-in or load the mod with VC active it gives me 3 windows saying the following, this also happens when I try to generate the .fud files in the File/Data/Details and then pressing Ctrl+Shift+B (See first tutorial)

File in use,

\\<My Network Path>\Data\Merging\Skyrim.fud

At first I thought it took long to generate a .fud, but after 25 minutes of staying on that message I canceled it.

This also happens with the Update.fud and the .fud for my project's masterfile.

 

I have tried verifying the creation kit files in Steam and I have reinstalled Creation Kit and redone all the settings because of a thread I have found about this being a possible bug from Bethesda setting the creationkit back from x.90 to x.89 (Current version).

 

Anyone know how to get rid of the Old Editor Warning and merge the ESP into my ESM?

 

Tutorials I used:

http://www.creationkit.com/Version_control

http://www.sureai.de/development/tutorials/skyrim-creation-kit-version-control/?lang=en

Edited October 28, 2012 by Hellscreamy

[Ez0n3]

If by "Old Editor Warning" you mean the text in the title bar that says "*** EDITOR UPDATE AVAILABLE ***", just ignore that.

 

- Setup / Adding New Masters -

After you set up the shares, test them by trying to make a new text file or something. If you can't write to the shares, you need to change the permissions so that your account can write to them.

Start->Run:

\\127.0.0.1\Merging

\\127.0.0.1\CheckInBackup

 

Copy skyrim.esm, update.esm and your new master to:

\\127.0.0.1\Merging\Data

 

Open the CK with only those masters checked. Ignore warnings for now and do the bit where you generate the .fid/.fud/.fvd files for each master (should only take a few seconds each). Close the CK.

 

- Normal Usage -

Open the CK with your master checked and your plugin (your master is a dependency) checked and active. Once the CK loads, use the VC button to select and "Check Out" (reserve) all the forms you want to merge. Then select them all again and "Check In". Put whatever you want for the note and select the master (in Merging\Data folder) you want to merge into. Select no when it asks you if you want to use a CID.

 

It will merge all the forms from the plugin into the new master and it should remove all the forms from the plugin (if successful the master will be changed and the plugin will be empty). Close the CK.

 

The next time you start the CK, it will say the network version is different from the local version, select yes to copy it or manually copy the master from \\127.0.0.1\Merging\Data and place it in the root of the local \Skyrim\Data\ folder overwriting the old master.

 

I just keep re-using the same plugin file since it's empty after the merge and let it auto copy the master the next time the CK starts.

[Hellscreamy]

The Old Editor Warning is a warning I get every time I Check In, it's not the warning in the editor's titlebar.

 

As I said in the edit above my post, it could that it was because I forgot to add the Skyrim.esm/Update.esm to the Merging folder. I had made a post on the Bethesda forums and got a reply from someone with the same problem. It seems to be related to the fact that I have Steam installed in the Program Files folder, which causes problems with the network sharing.

 

I've reinstalled Steam in a different location and currently reinstalling Skyrim, hopefully this fixes it.

Link to the Bethesda thread