INIzer
...and N files to configure them all
version 1.0

Requires http://obse.silverlock.org/


Download : TESNexus | ModDB | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2584752/INIZer.dll


Description

This tiny OBSE plugin allows each Oblivion installation to use a different INI and plugin list for its configuration. No more, no less.




Usage

Drop this in the OBSE\Plugins folder of the respective game installation and let it run once, as the first run generates the plugin's INI file. This INI file then lets you rename the INI and plugin list files used by the corresponding game. For example, consider an Oblivion installation in the following directory: G:\TES Oblivion. The Nehrim TC mod is installed in G:\TES Oblivion\Nehrim, which functions as a separate game for all practical purposes. By default, both Oblivion and Nehrim use the same INI and plugin list files (the latter located at %appdata%\Local\Oblivion\Plugins.txt). This, I'm told, is an annoyance for switching b'ween games is requires a change of load order and possibly changes to the settings as well.

To fix this, you drop INIzer inside Nehrim's OBSE plugins folder (G:\TES Oblivion\Nehrim\Data\OBSE\Plugins) and modify its INI as illustrated below

[Filenames]INI=Nehrim.iniPlugin List=Nehrim_Plugins.txt

Now, Nehrim will use its own INI for its settings, as it will for its plugins.




Compatibility

This mod is, and should be, compatible with every mod there is.



Credits

Special thanks to :

• Ian Patterson, Stephen Abel and Paul Connelly (The OBSE Team) – For keeping up the Oblivion Modding spirit and providing the modding community with TES4 Oblivion's Elixir of Immortality
  
• LHammonds – For his Readme generator
  
• Kyoma - ?

The Entire Community around the TES Construction Set Wiki – For making such an exhaustive resource catering to ES Modding.
The Folks at the Construction Set Forums – For all their help, rum and fish.
The Rest of the Modding Community – For the inspiration I needed to start modding and all the wonderful mods which I use.
Bethesda – For providing a great game, with enough flaws to keep us busy.



Change Log

I'd appreciate it if someone kept kyoma from decapitating me repeatedly.

Nice, and useful. Thanks.

He might have to one up you to feel better.

Which version of OBSE does this require.

I know you like to be forward thinking and probably it is version 19 beta something.

I use a few mods that are compiled for 18 and did not want to move onto 19 yet - especially after the ride that 18 was.

Anyway it is telling me that my version 18 is too old.

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with 19b3 it worked on Nehrim.

So a few questions ... Are you recommending it be run on each install or should I only use it on the ones that are alternate to the main (oblivion install)? I guess because I have the save games for each game in different save game profiles that the it will not work if the right profile is active?

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As it is due to having the saves in separate save game profiles (which you have to admit is much more convenient to sorting through them being in the same folder if one were to want to have two games that are seperate).

What happens instead is that I may activate all the wsp that is appropriate for Nehrim in the OBMM for Nehrim then close that and change save game profiles to the regular oblivion game - at this point then the mods that are active in Nehrim are deactivated in bash because they are not in the same data folder - it then sets a new plugins list and that in turn seems to be setting a new Nehrim plugins txt too.

hard to explain.

I'm still in the same boat then even with this as it will work until save game profiling comes into the picture. I don't want to mix save games files.

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And I'm not even sure it works - after resetting all the plugins and closing bash and making sure the right save game profile was set I had this direct Nehrim to 'Nehrim_Oblivion.ini' and when it loaded there was no loading bar and the menus were not functioning and the save game would not load - removing this dll (so that Nehrim then accessed the oblivion.ini that was for nehrim) and it all worked fine.

No need, all I'm asking is how you managed to do it. In my inital testing I couldn't get the game to use a different ini (I assumed it was simply too late by the time the OBSE plugins got loaded). Either I was patching the wrong code or I messed up my testing.

[edit]I basically patched all the places that pointed to Oblivion.ini (off_B02C84)[/edit]

-kyoma

Oh mister shadeMe, this looks awesome

I have 3 installs of oblivion, one for modding with dlc, one with dlc and mods that i play with, then one with no dlc for testing my mods on. But i always find i have to deactivate all my mods so i can test my oblivion install just for modding then reactivate them if i want to just play

Im going to go dl and let you know how i go, till them :hubbahubba:

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Ok i dl, and have question myself that has already been asked above. Are there any requirements to which obse version you use? As i get this error

checking plugin C:\Games\Oblivion2\Data\OBSE\Plugins\\INIZer.dllplugin C:\Games\Oblivion2\Data\OBSE\Plugins\\INIZer.dll (00000001 INIzer 00000001) reported as incompatible during query

Try OBSE v19 beta3, if only to confirm it is required.

Yes beta works fine

plugin C:\Games\Oblivion2\Data\OBSE\Plugins\\INIZer.dll (00000001 INIzer 00000001) loaded correctly

I really did not want beta yet, but i think i might stick to it if it is the only solution

Had to re-edit my post, yes i have above i didn't want to go to beta, but now, its definitely worth taking the plunge, but would be happy if it is possible to have a 1.8 version obse

Last but not least, absolutely outstanding work there shadeMe. Works flawlessly from what i have tested even BOSS is fine, etc

:celebration:

Just use it with every installation that you feel needs a different INI/mod list. Note that you'll have to manually create the new plugin list, as the game doesn't automatically.


I overwrote the pointer in the data segment (at the address you located) to point to my string instead of the instance in the string table. Similarly for the plugin list. I responded to your http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1116073-release-nehrim-at-fates-edge-english-version/page__view__findpost__p__16400986, assuming you were following that thread.


I've reuploaded a build that requires v18 instead (same link).

This will come in useful when I play nehrim, thanks.

ShadeMe-

Do you have Nehrim installed and playing it?

I'm getting more and more errors with what it detects as the save games and ini.

I do mean all respect you are one of the brighter folks around here, but I'm just hoping this grew out of actual experience playing Nehrim and yourself juggling the files.

So far things are worse now.

Yes, I do have Nehrim. But no, I haven't started playing it yet. However, I did test this plugin with it. And it worked without problems.

I'd suggest that you start off with just the INI override and let the plugin list point to Plugins.txt. If that works, move on to the next override - Copy the contents of the Plugin.txt file that was present before you started to use INIzer and paste it in new file (say, Nehrim_Plugins.txt) inside the same folder. Finally, set the Plugin List INI key in INIzer's INI to Nehrim_Plugins.txt.

Well leaving the plugins txt alone as suggested and then having it point to 'Nehrim_Oblivion.ini' seemed to work - I even took out the regular Oblivion.ini to test and it all loaded fine.

Loaded the game and made a few saves and exited.

I then look at the plugins txt and it all the plugins for my massive Oblivion install with 240 some esp on it. At what point is that list generated and by what?

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It seems that any redirecting the plugins.txt results in the loading bar for Nehrim not appearing and then any save game I try and load it tells me that all the masters are missing and I don't get the option to load any saves. I tested this with three types of manually edited plugins/txt files.
1. an older one actually matched the mods I had in for nehrim and was generated at some point by whatever does that.
2. a list that I created based off of what OBMM gave me as active plugins.
3. a renamed copy of the massive list that I described above.

None of them worked and had the same result. I've not tested this with regular oblivion and probably will not till I get this side set.

Then I seriously messed up during testing, makes me wonder what other things might actually work.

It's really good, it will no longer take the lead among all facilities, lack more than to separate the savegame and would be perfect.

So I've tried several times to get the Plugins/txt reassignment to work and it just doesn't.

In http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1114316-relz-wrye-bash-thread-50/page__view__findpost__p__16434081 thread for ini swapping I described a potential problem that now that I think about it may not be a problem.

If there are mods or OBSE plugins like fast exit2 which saves the ini before exiting - will these be able to do that if the ini has been reassigned and renamed? Or will they continue to save and alter the original named ini?

Everything works fine for me redirecting both the ini and the plugins file. I had to manually add the mods to the plugin file myself.

Only downside is I cant use some utilities like Wyre Bash within the Nehrim folder. Oh well.

I tried editing the plugins and it just didn't work - are you also using Wrye Bash? And are switching between games?

They'll work fine with INIzer.

Thanks shadeMe for this! It makes it much easier to go back and forth when modding both. However...is there a way to make the saves save to separate locations like Psymon was saying? That would make it really awesome because sorting through saves in the menu is difficult...sorry to be such a pest!

You can set the sLocalSavesPath INI key to point to another folder in your custom INI. That should do to keep your saves separate from Oblivion's.

No. Wyre Bash gets screwed up cause its reading the default ini, and so I have to add the files manually myseld to the plugin.txt. So I ahve no real way to edit the load order sadly. I have not come across a need to just yet though.

Yeah since I can't sop using Bash - this maybe part of what is messing me up.

Really the need is for Wrye Bash to be able to either handle multiple installs or be able to have multiple Wrye Bashes that are separate from each other.

This is a large step in moving toward managing multiple installs though.

Wow...that was obvious. I totally forgot about that! Thanks so much! Everything works great now.