Marking a plugin as light... then mod author updates the mod....

[Gyzzidonth]

(RE: Fallout 4, Skyrim SE, etc)

 

Question: If you have a plugin that you previously, manually, marked as light... then later, the mod author updates the plugin....

• Do you have to re-mark the newer version of the plugin as light.... again?

• Or, does Vortex recognize that you previously marked it light, and re-mark it as light automatically for you after the new version is installed?

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If Vortex does not automatically mark previously marked plugins....

 

Feature request:

• If you have an existing plugin installed that was manually marked as light, when you update it (and the newer version is not marked as light by the plugin author)... Vortex will do it automatically.
  • Ideally, when you download the newer version of the plugin, have Vortex check it, and if it still fits the criteria to be converted, go ahead and automatically do it (with a notification that it's done). If the new version does not fit the criteria, it warns you if it can't automatically mark it as light, gives you the reason, and the option to not install it on an existing save (if it will cause issues).

 

[HadToRegister]

No, you have to mark the plugin as light again, unless the mod author has made their plugin light.

 

Having Vortex automatically marking plugins as light could lead to problems, as you'd have to know which plugins it's marking light, and if you don't, it could lead up to a bunch of corrupted save games.

[Pickysaurus]

While I get where you're coming from, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. A better option would be for the mod author to offer a light-flagged version of the plugin.

[Tannin42]

We can't assume that a future version of the plugin can still be converted to a light plugin correctly - so we'd have to provide this whole fallback mechanism where you warn you if the conversion wasn't possible and so on.

 

Tbh if a mod is still actively maintained, as Picky said, ideally the mod author would convert the plugin themselves because why not? The conversion option is more useful for older mods that don't get updated and were released at a time where esls weren't a thing yet or weren't understood yet by the modding community.