http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25859/ is now available on the Nexus.

This is the ninth update of TES4Edit and is still being updated. However, it should still be considered experimental. Make backups of your plugins and report any issues in the official Bethesda thread. If you have never used TES4Edit, Wiki Pages and basic videos are available. Feel free to ask about plugin cleaning in the official http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1425445-relz-tes5edit-plugin-cleaning-emporium/. If you require technical assistance the official http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1490494-relz-tes5edit/ thread is best for that. As always backup you plugins, save games, and use with caution. (at your own risk)

NOTE: This is the actual version of FNVEdit, FO3Edit, and TES4Edit by ElminsterAU being updated for Skyrim. He has allowed us to host both TES5Dump and TES4Edit under the same MPL.

TES4Edit 3.0.32 EXPERIMENTAL by ElminsterAU updated for Skyrim by http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/156622, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/1102380, and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/4147439.

If possible please post in the Bethesda forum: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1490494-relz-tes5edit/

Threads:


Support for other versions of Edit are located at these locations: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/83746-fo3edit/, http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/248639-fnvedit/, http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?showtopic=37310, http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?showtopic=813094

Other versions of Edit can be downloaded at these locations: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/637, http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34703, http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/11536, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25859

Note: These are all a work in Progress.

Updates on CK Wiki Pages:

• http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit
• http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit
• http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Mod_Cleaning_Tutorial
• http://www.creationkit.com/Skyrim_Dirty_Plugins_List
• http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Scripting_Functions - New! [WIP]

Gopher's Video's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQO2S6HDBw
Gopher's Video's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw3g_N1jcZQ
My Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciRPWx3OhBQ [Unsupported]

Rename to TES4Edit.exe to work with Oblivion.
Rename to FO3Edit.exe to work with Fallout3.
Rename to FNVEdit.exe to work with New Vegas.

End user documentation:

Fallout3 http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/8629 for FO3Edit (applies to all game versions)
Fallout New Vegas http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/38413 for FNVEdit (applies to all game versions)

Developer documentation:

Documentation for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas plugin file formats can be found on https://github.com/WrinklyNinja/fopdoc courtesy of WrinklyNinja

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• https://github.com/WrinklyNinja/fopdoc/blob/master/Fallout3/Records.md

• https://github.com/WrinklyNinja/fopdoc/blob/master/FalloutNV/Records.md

Documentation for Oblivion and Skyrim file formats can be found on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page Wiki

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• http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes5Mod:Mod_File_Format

• http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes4Mod:Mod_File_Format

• http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes3Mod:File_Format - Morrowind is not supported with xEdit

Important for Older Systems:
If you get an error about d3dx9_*.dll not being installed, you need to update your DirectX to the most current version. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 or http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23611 or http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35. (make sure to install it after unpacking it)

TES5Edit Updates:

With each new version of TES5Edit you may want to restore plugins from backups and reclean them. Otherwise any fixes and updates to cleaning process won't take effect.

Version 3.0.32 contains the following changes:

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• - issue 69: automatic updating of counter fields to reflect the proper amount of elements in containers

• - issue 149: FormID indexes in master file header ONAM forms

• - issue 162: reference rotation angle normalization (TES4LODGen hanging on several mods)

• - hotkeys in plugins selection window (Enter - confirm, numpad '+' select all, '-' select none, '*' invert)

• - hold Shift while starting xEdit to skip restoring window state (for users stuck with xEdit outside of viewable desktop area)

• - hold Shift while clicking OK in plugins selection window for one time skipping of building references for all plugins

• - exclude building references for plugins list available in options

• - option to display integer values of flags and enumerations (off by default)

• - Ctrl+C copies only Node text to clipboard, Esc closes the View window

• - definitions update for all games to reduce false positives when checking for errors

• - custom scripted filtering, demo 'Apply custom scripted filter.pas'

• - new scripting functions and scripts: Weather Editor script (Ctrl+W), Worldspace Browser (Alt+F3)

• - scripted persistent bookmarking of records: Ctrl+1..5 to set a bookmark, Alt+1..5 to go back

• - removing offset data in WRLD is optional now, 'on' by default

• - [TES5] TES5LODGen (beta version, has several issues)

• - [TES5] renamed armor addon nodes (added slot numbers), please update your scripts if needed

• - [TES5] Record definitions update (WTHR, DOBJ, NAVM, VMAD papyrus data, GetEventData condition), improved NavMeshes (thanks to jonwd7)

• - [TES5] Added VMAD (papyrus scripts) to TREE, and LVLG (global) to LVLN. They can't be edited in CK, but it supports them and they confirmed to work in game

• - [TES4] Added XRGD subrecord to REFR, INFO flags update

• - [FO3] Do not remove PLD2 subrecord in PACK (as in FNV)

• - [FNV] BPTD update to support body parts without BPTN name

• - [FNV] Relocated CELL and WRLD groups at the end of file

• - [TES4/TES5/FO3/FNV] WRLD offset data OFST definition (when 'Simple records' option is off)

Version 3.0.31 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.30 contains the following changes:

Version 3.0.29 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.28 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.27 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.26 contains the following changes:


Note: Removed from the Nexus.
Version 3.0.25 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.24 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.23 contains the following changes:


Version 3.0.22 contains the following changes:


ToDo List:

Update Miax’s Tome of FO3Edit for Skyrim.
Update NAVM, NAVI, and wbUnion for VMAD.
Make TES5Edit Documentation
Update the http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit

Known Issues:

TBA

Current Progress:

Some additional tweaking needs to be done but we are close to having on open beta. About 90-95% of the records are decoded at this time. I have started to update the UESPWiki and I keep a current list on our site in the http://code.google.com/p/skyrim-plugin-decoding-project/wiki/UESPWikiUpdates.

Current Contributors:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/1102380
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/4147439
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/users/156622

We would love to have more people helping out on the project.

Name: Skyrim Plugin Decoding Project

Summary: A collaborative project to decode Skyrim's record structure using TES5Dump and provide a working version of TES5Edit.

Description: TES5Dump (a.k.a. TES4Dump / FO3Dump / FNVDump) are utilities that dump the contents of a .esp or .esm plugin to a text file, using internal record definitions. By comparing its output with plugins of known contents, the record definitions can be tweaked until the correct structures have been decoded. TES5Dump also forms the plugin parsing backend for the TES5Edit utility. (a.k.a. TES4Edit / FO3Edit / FNVEdit)

Skyrim's record structure has not yet been fully decoded, and the Skyrim modding community suffers from the lack of a working TES5Edit. This project's aim is to help the decoding effort by providing TES5Dump and allowing many people to update its definitions using Subversion, and to provide the TES5Edit utility.

Its predecessors FNVEdit, FO3Edit, and TES4Edit by ElminsterAU are the best tools to use for exploring overlaps between mods and cleaning mods. TES5Edit will have the same functionality since the compiled release will be made with the same TES4 back engine using the definitions as a result of this project. He would work on it himself, but unfortunately suffers from a severe lack of spare time. He has offered to compile TES5Edit after the necessary supporting files are changed for Skyrim's file format.

This utility will let you easily see how multiple mods interact and override each other, as well as giving you a quick view of the changes that a plugin makes. It lets you browse a graphical record tree of your active plugins, revealing the values set by most record types and comparing overlapping changes from each active plugin.

When started it will automatically find your Skyrim Data directory. You then get a dialog to select which modules you want to load with the current selection from your plugins.txt as default value. Once you have confirmed that dialog the selected modules will start loading in the background. The program will then work the same as its predecessors.

License: Mozilla Public License TES5Dump and TES5Edit.

Anyone is welcome to download the source to TES5Dump using the instructions below.

Why do we need TES5Dump:







How TES5Dump works:




What we need for this project:

We are looking for volunteers and TES enthusiasts who are willing to contribute their time in decoding Skyrim's files, and making updates to the UESP Wiki.

If you would like to participate in this project please send me a PM.

Wiki Updaters:

Any general knowledge of how to edit html and possibly xml. After you have checked out the files the folder you will work with is UESPWiki. It will contain templates of each record posted on UESPWiki. To make changes to the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes5Mod:Mod_File_Format site you need to register first. Registration is free and hardly any information is required.

Please refer to the on site wiki: http://code.google.com/p/skyrim-plugin-decoding-project/wiki/PostingToTheUESPWiki

Record Decoders:

After you have checked out the files the folder you will work with is TES5Dump. The only file you need to edit will be wbDefinitionsTES5.pas.
To compile the source you need a trial version of Delphi found here. https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/delphi The source is written in Delphi but you only need a basic knowledge with C++ or Java to interpret the Delphi code and figure out the references.
Having knowledge of or, experience in decoding the records in plugins would be extremely helpful as well. The decoding is not programming intensive because all you are really doing is updating the pre existing routines for Skyrim's format.

Please refer to the on site wiki: http://code.google.com/p/skyrim-plugin-decoding-project/wiki/DecodingRecords

Getting Set Up:

You will need an SVN client like http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html to submit your changes. Instructions are listed https://code.google.com/p/skyrim-plugin-decoding-project/wiki/NewMembersGettingStarted

Special Thanks:

Listed in alphabetical order.

AndalayBay: Without her help getting me in touch with Elminster we would all still be waiting for confirmed record definitions, and even longer for a working TES5Edit.
Bethesda: For their awesome program, and for this forum so we can accomplish this task.
Divstator: for his work on Improved NavMesh Decoding
ElminsterAU: For all his hard work on FO3/FNV/TES4Edit over the years.
Hlp: For all his hard work helping with the project.
jonwd7: for his work on Improved NavMesh Decoding
Zilav: For all his hard work helping with the project.