Description:

MMOG (Morrowind Merged Objects Generator)

by abot

Uses tes3cmd.exe to generate Merged_Objects.esp without TESTool.exe crashing.

prerequisites:
TESTool.exe must be in folder where Morrowind.exe is
tes3cmd.exe and mmog.exe file must be inside Data Files folder

testers needed,
ideally you should have

• required tools (TESTools.exe and tes3cmd.exe) properly installed and working
• a big mod list usually crashing TESTool while directly generating Merged_Objects.esp

http://abitoftaste.altervista.org/morrowind/index.php?option=downloads&task=info&id=53&Itemid=50&-MMOG-Morrowind-Merged-Objects-Generator

I must say I somehow never had crashing issues with TESTool (with an almost full modlist), but this sounds like a great thing, will have to test it, soon.

And there is one thing that always bothered me with TESTool: When I did not want some mods to be merged, I had to disable them in Wrye Mash every time before merging objects and re-enable them afterwards. So would it be possible to include something like an ignore list in your tool where I can enter the names of mods I don't want to be merged? That would be awesome and make another tool obsolete for me (just as the new MGE XE beta did with FPS Optimizer, which I only used to scale the UI). But this still needs TESTool installed, as I just saw, so it only makes it partially obsolete.

Yes, but you can do this already with tes3cmd:

prepare a file Data Files\before_merge.bat containing e.g

tes3cmd.exe active --off "mod2skip1.esm" "mod2skip2.esm"  "mod2skipN.esm" "mod2skip1.esp" "mod2skip2.esp" "mod2skipN.esp"

prepare a file Data Files\after_merge.bat containing exactly the same command except using --on instead of --off e.g

tes3cmd.exe active --on "mod2skip1.esm" "mod2skip2.esm"  "mod2skipN.esm" "mod2skip1.esp" "mod2skip2.esp"  "mod2skipN.esp"

or
save your complete loading list from Mash (mods tab, right click File header, Load, Save List..., MyLoadList)

1. start before_merge.bat
2. generate merged objects
3. start after_merge.bat OR reload complete list from Mash (mods tab, right click File header, Load, MyLoadList)

This sounds very interesting. I can't promise that I'll get to it anytime soon, but I am very interested!