You may also add mods to your library by going to the site and selecting “Add to Library.”
The file will be opened using the default text editor Windows Notepad if you don’t install a third-party text editor.
*not that people should be using the file extension, an ESL-flagged. You don't have profiles that allow swapping between mod setups, but the only need I have felt for that is to more easily create a blank slate when I am modding, and renaming folders/disabling plugins works well enough. ba2 archives, and you can always manually extract files from a specific mod should you need to. If you know what you are doing, the main downside to installing directly to the Data folder is when you have multiple overlapping mods that don't use. esl plugins, which might be a problem if you have any that aren't from the CC*. For that version, it completely ignores the ESL flag and so won't try and force them to load with ESMs like the last non-github release did, though as a corollary it won't even recognize. You can still get the old versions from the github (the one I happened to stop on is 0.63.15). And like you, I installed most manually and basically just used it as a FOMOD manager/plugins.txt editor. I haven't truly played in several years, but when I did I used an older version of NMM that installed directly into the Data folder. Only that I don't want to see a bunch of other people join in, and sidetrack the topic.Įdited by StormWolf01, 25 March 2020 - 12:09 PM. I don't mean that the conversation would go in that direction between just the two of us. Not go back and forth with opinions and facts about the Nexus' installer. I just wanna find something that will do the fomods that are so big that they make my brain smoke. I know the can of worms that could possibly open up.
I do it all the time with my manual installs.Īs for elaboration. Granted, it's not hard to cut n paste files from one place to the next. Along with the copies of files (.baked files) that I've still haven't gotten around to cleaning out from the last time that I had it installed. HY kinda took the words right out of my brain on that.