Strange load order bug

Post » Sat May 28, 2016 11:17 am

Hello,


I encountered a really strange bug recently. As far as I know, when you have multiple mods editing the same entry, the latest mod takes effect. I use Book Jackets book rotate edition, which edits book Alchemists formulary. I just added a mod that modifies this book too, by PikachunoTM, avaliable http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1598390-uniformity-mods-for-mw-gameplay-vs-text-3/#entry25153308. To sum it up, it edits one line in the book. After I added the mod, I recreated my Merged_Objects file. I also inspected the entry in Merged_Objects with EE. The entry was correct - it had book jackets cover, book rotate script and correctly altered line. But in game, the book has book jackets cover and book rotate script, but original unaltered text. I checked other mods for edits of bk_alchemistsformulary with TESPCD, but no mod that loads after Merged objects alter it (After Merged objects I have only multipatch, melian's teleport plugin and bunch of Uvirith's legacy addons).



So I wanted to ask if anyone already encountered similar issue?

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Matt Terry
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2016 6:15 pm

I'd try looking for "The Alchemists Formulary" string in all *.esp files loaded after
[EDIT]also, if some mod changed the book to teach a skill, it may be stored in savegame so better look also in *.ess files
[EDIT2]uhm, no, book text is not saved
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neen
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2016 7:48 pm


Done that already.


Tested on new game, so no save data.



I guess I will have to experiment and see what will solve it.

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Carys
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2016 8:46 pm

Okay, I played around with it a bit.



I unticked all mods that come after it, although none of them contain bk_alchemistsformlary reference (they were multipatch, Uvirith's legacy addons, Melian's teleport mod, Melian's teleport mod leveled marks patch) - did not help


I opened Merged objects in EE and changed name of the book to "Alchemist's FormularyTEST" - this fixed the problem - book correctly showed new name, book jacket cover, book rotate script and new text.


I reticked all the mods that come after it and even resaved multipatch to gain the same load order as I had at the start - book was still fixed



Soo... it seems that simply resaving Merged objects file in EE helped. I still have no idea why, or what actually happened.

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Sami Blackburn
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2016 7:04 am

Got a link to the Book Rotate version you're using?

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benjamin corsini
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2016 10:50 am


Latest one - 5.3. Available here: http://mw.modhistory.com/download-11-6953

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