Hi. Frustrated by the mess the Data Files folder tends to become after installing a couple of dozens of mods, I decided to convert the icons, the meshes and the textures of every mod I use to versatile BSA archives using BSA Pack.
Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as I expected. In fact, it didn't work at all. Well, it worked a bit, maybe, since the mods that don't replace any original data work without problems. The replacers, on the other hand, don't replace a thing, and all I see is the original stuff.
I tried to:
- Set TryArchiveFirst to 1 in the morrowind.ini
- Rename Morrowind.bsa to something.bsa and add it to the [Archives] section of the morrowind.ini, in various positions
- Create a dummy Morrowind.bsa with some random original stuff in every folder
- Unpack the original Morrowind.bsa, repack it, repack it together with the Tribunal.bsa and Bloodmoon.bsa data (adjusting the file data)
Nevertheless, nothing changed: the original icons, meshes and textures took always precedence. In despair, I even tried to rename the replacer.bsa to Morrowind.bsa and the Morrowind.bsa to replacer.bsa, but even so nothing changed! xD
Then, I noticed that if I extract the contents of Morrowind/Tribunal/Bloodmoon.bsa into Data Files, the replacers do their jobs, respecting their order. Ok, now my "project" works fine, but the fact that I need to fill the Data Files folder with the original stuff defeat my original purpose.
This behavior seems strange to me. Any ideas?

just wondering, do you have the steam version of morrowind?

if so, you'll need to redate the default BSAs, to what i'm not sure.

No, and of course they're dated before the other BSAs I'm trying to load. ^^