Download: http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22368 or https://sourceforge.net/projects/oblivionworks/files
Readme: the file named Wrye Bash.html in the mopy folder)
External Reading: (ie tutorials, user created help files that may be easier to understand than the giant readme)

• Wrye Bash Wiki: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes4Mod:Wrye_Bash
  
• http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35230

Screenshots: http://wryemusings.com/images/WryeBash_01.png, http://wryemusings.com/images/WryeBash_02.png, http://wryemusings.com/images/WryeBash_03.png, http://wryemusings.com/images/WryeBash_05.png
Previous Topic: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1156281-relz-wrye-bash-thead-58/
Requirements:

• It's easiest to just download the WryePython03a package from http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22368 unless you like to customize your install.
  (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5.msi or http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.6/python-2.6.6.msi), http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.8-win32-ansi-2.8.11.0-py26.exe, http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/files/comtypes/0.6.2/comtypes-0.6.2.win32.exe/download, http://www.voidspace.org.uk/downloads/psyco-1.6.win32-py2.6.zip, and http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=78018
  Older/Newer versions _may_ work but those are probably the most widely used and tested

Overview:

• Wrye Bash has a lot of features. I mean a LOT. It's like twenty tools rolled into one. It includes as subfeatures the entire feature sets of other tools, and offers plenty of other features that no other mod tool has. Except installation. It's the "everything but installation" tool! Now with installation too!

Installation:

• First time installation is still a little difficult, but later updates are easy (just unzip latest version into Oblivion directory). However, for first time installation you have to preinstall two other packages and then (sometimes) tweak a shortcut. You can't just download and press the pretty buttons -- you have to follow the readme instructions. If you have followed the instructions and still have problems, post the bugdump. If you haven't followed the instructions and whine that it won't work without posting the bugdump, Wrye will bite your fingers off (it's a monkey thing). Otherwise he's quite helpful.

Linking:

• If you'd like to link to Bash from somewhere else, please do! But be sure to link to either http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22368 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/oblivionworks/. Don't link to the actual Bash zip file, since that changes fairly frequently.

Bain

• Install/uninstall mods from zip, 7z, archives, etc. No OMODs required!

Bashed Patchers

• Configure and build a custom patch mod to...
  
• Merge leveled lists
  
• Merge TNR faces over other changes to npcs
  
• Merge race eye/hair/body/voice changes over other changes to races
  
• Tweak clothes: Show amulets with robes, zero weight rings and amulets, etc.
  
• Tweak misc. GMST settings.

Repair/Edit Stuff

• Repair animation bug (various animations freezing)
  
• Repair hair bug (game ctds when viewing race menu after removing a hair mod)
  
• Remove spells from spell list
  
• Rename created spells, enchanted items
  
• Remove bloating (one use of this reduced a 158 Mb savegame to 2.5 Mb)
  
• Import NPC levels into an existing savegame (essential when switching to/from OOO, Frans, etc.)
  
• Import PC face from other savegame or any mod (e.g., import any of TNR's faces into game)
  
• Easily generate html readmes using wiki-like syntax.

Mod, Savegame, Screenshot Management

• Auto-Ghost mods to reduce espm thrashing.
  
• Launch Oblivion and TESCS (with or without OBSE).
  
• Mod, save, screenshot file management. (Rename, duplicate, etc.)
  
• Save Profiles: Have different sets of saves for different npcs with different loadlists, etc.
  
• Screenshots: View, delete, batch rename, open, etc.
  
• Readme Browser: Quickly view readme of currently selected mod.
  
• Quick/Autoswap between SI and pre-SI versions of Oblivion.esm.

Fallout 3:

• TheLORDofDOOM has taken on making a FO3 version, Wrye4Fallout3... and here's the first little bit of it (not all translated to account for FO3 but it's showing promise). And another, a bit further along, by Valda called http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1079607-relz-garybash/.

Other news:

• There is now a listserve for the svn and bug/request/patch/support trackers; if you want to get emails whenever changes to those items happen just join over https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oblivionworks-committers. You can also use it for support requests/questions if you desire.

Latest Versions:
=== 290 [15/10/2010] [PacificMorrowind]
=== 289 [14/10/2010] [myk002,PacificMorrowind,roxahris,valda68k]

I think you missed out on an important part of the problem though: ok, OOO.esp is marked as mergeable and all's fine and dandy. But some mods that depend on it such as Mart's Monsters Mod for OOO are not and require it to be activated as master, which doesn't prevent Wrye Bash from proposing to deactivate OOO.esp (which silently deactivates all its children).
The end result in my setup was that MMM for OOO.esp was left deactivated and marked with a dot (since some things are still imported from it) without my noticing it. And then I was wondering why my game would crash as soon as I waited.

The injected records go way beyond just placed NPCs and creatures though. Anything that's been placed has been done through an injected record.

The issue with injected records is probably a question better asked to the OOO team.

As for KR being mergeable for Gratis_monsta and not for Arthmoor, I think both of you should take a look at the ESP in TES4Edit and check whether there are new cell and land records present. Arthmoor's version should have new records present while Gratis' version shouldn't.

Perhaps, but the issue of injected records is affecting the work CBash is doing and resulting in a plugin file being marked as mergeable which shouldn't be and that numerous other patch files and other things have been made dependent on. Building the patch without CBash treats it properly because however they did it and why they did it don't matter in the end - they're still new records that don't exist in the master file. Merging is supposed to be about being able to drop an ESP for edits made to already existing records, not injections of non-existing ones.

As far as KR, it has an overwhelmingly large number of injections into its master file index (01) except for one solitary landscape edit in cell -36,-5 in the stage 2 worldspace. I can't say for sure why it's there but it's not bogus landscape data.

There are no records under the CELL branch that have been injected though. Only that one buried in the WRLD branch.

It seems as if the 291 installer version is up on Nexus as of today (yesterday for me now), and it says check the changelog. But I cannot find the changelog here or on Nexus.

am I blind?

Confirmed. No Psymon you're not blind.

/Oblivion/Mopy/Wrye Bash.html#Versions

I'm still running 287 and have been looking forward to 291. Think I'll wait for the non-exe version before installing. Either that or good solid upgrade directions posted somewhere. I wanna make sure all goes well and my current settings are maintained (excepting those that are improved or made obsolete by the update).

Finally! v291 and it's awesome installer.

Maybe whoever is the warden of Nexus page could clean the mess there when you get time? For example leave only 291 and Wrye Python as main files, change version in description, ...

I used the installer over my current installation, and it takes care of everything, even giving you the option to remove older stuff.

Congratulations on the release of v291 and many thanks for the incredible amount of work you have done to make this available.

Some questions...

1. Does the installer migrate your INI settings or do you need to do something to migrate your settings?
2. Am I correct in thinking that if I want to do it manually, I can simply use the contents of the $_OUTDIR folder?

Thanks for any help or comment.

EDIT:
1. Looks like you have to migrate your settings to the new INI file.
2. Seems to woek, but the shortcut I had didn't work - used the Installer rather than mess about and it works beautifully

Everything seems to be working well. Now to decide whether it is worth trying out Cbash - any gotchas that people already know about?

Hi All.

A quick question please?

I have a couple of Mods Boxes showing Orange. Master load order changed.

I'm 100% certain the masters are corrct.

Can I change the load order in the load Master section of Mods Page? If so how please?

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Regards,

James.

Um... drag 'n drop, as ever. :shrug:

Though I must admit, I'm not entirely sure what you're asking...

Hi Breton.

Thank you for your reply.

Sorry for not being clearer.

In the Mods section. To the far right is a small section showing the masters when highlighting the esp.
Can the respective load order positions be changed there to turn esp back to green?

Thank you for your time.

James.

As far as I can see you can only use WB to chnage the names of the masters - you can't change the order. To change the order, use TES4Gecko - really easy and you can see your mod go green as you move the mods in TES5Gecko.

I meant, you could rearrange the masters, to suit, via drag 'n drop. Like, in the actual load order proper. Seems I was equally unclear - if not more so!

Alternatively, you could use TES4Edit to "Sort Masters". Or, so it seems, TES4Gecko. :shrug:

Depends, of course, which is "wrong" (i.e., the mod with the "orange masters" as more or less decided by its creator, or BOSS for example, that might've put the masters themselves in the wrong order [for the particular context].)

CBash doesn't yet have the Actors.AIPackages patcher, so if your load order needs them, keep it in mind that those changes won't be brought forward.

There's also one HUGE gotcha that didn't get addressed. It wants to mark OOO and in some cases Kvatch Rebuilt as mergable when they really aren't and this can (and already has) generated bogus reports about missing masters. I hpe this particular issue isn't left this way for very long because it's going to start http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1158727-the-unique-landscapes-project/page__view__findpost__p__17040899. Basically any mod that's configured to inject it's changes back into its own master when it really shouldn't have done so.

291 still has CBash disabled by default; still needs more testing and I need to get around to Actors.AIPackages.
and of course massive mod mergeing seems to need some work still.

non installer version upload failed overnight (left em both uploading); but yes as Surazal asked you can just use 7z (and probably some other archivers) to open the installer and manaully grab the contentes of the Outdir folder.

just realized there was a slight typo in the readme that was in that installer but I don't think I'm going to worry about it; listed release date for 291 should have been January 22nd but was listed as January 1st.

As Hickory noted the changelog is in mopy/wrye bash.html (&.txt)... but here it is as well (GULP!):

Ahh yes, I recall seeing some stuff about that - I think I will hold off Cbash for a while longer (as OM mentions below) - there are some items that will cause issues with my LO. Thanks for clarifying


As I mentioned, a little hickup with the manual install made me try the Installer - will be using the installer from now on - thank you so much for making it all much easier to not have problems.

Thanks for the new release! I'm going to finally try upgrading from 287 Keeping fingers crossed... I had so much trouble getting WB running under Win 7 that I've been reluctant to try any of the upgrades.

Never noticed this before. Thought I'd try it, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm still getting asked if I want solid compression and what size to specify for it.

Neither of these work:

;--s7zExtraCompressionArguments: if set to something other than Default adds these as command line switches for compressing with 7z.;  If you always want Solid on and a block size of 1mb you would specific: -ms=on -ms=1ms7zExtraCompressionArguments=-ms=on -ms=1m

;--s7zExtraCompressionArguments: if set to something other than Default adds these as command line switches for compressing with 7z.;  If you always want Solid on and a block size of 1mb you would specific: -ms=on -ms=1ms7zCustomCompressionArguments=-ms=on -ms=1m

Just tried v291. Loving it.

I also tried CBash for the 1st time, and rebuilding the BP gives me this:

Traceback (most recent call last):  File "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Mopy\basher.py", line 5377, in Execute    patchFile.buildPatch(SubProgress(progress,0.1,0.9)) #try to speed this up!  File "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Mopy\bosh.py", line 17532, in buildPatch    patcher(self, subProgress)  File "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Mopy\bosh.py", line 30671, in finishPatch    subProgress.setFull(len(ObCollection.LoadOrderMods) * 2)  File "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\Mopy\bolt.py", line 1431, in setFull    if (1.0*full) == 0: raise ArgumentError('Full must be non-zero!')bolt.ArgumentError: Full must be non-zero!

...and no, I don't have an empty Import checked. The same options were fine in Bash, but CBash doesn't like it.

I guess I must have missed some important step in setting it up. All I did was rename "Rename_CBash.dll" to "CBash.dll". Hopefully I'll figure out for myself what I've done wrong... but IDK how much time I'll be able to devote to that given my situation. If anyone else knows what I missed, please feel free to toss me a bone. Most of my time is spent in caring for someone disabled so running into a need for troubleshooting usually means running into a wall.

If it helps to know, the BP builder only runs for 9 seconds. It skips all the merges and imports I have set, goes straight to Patching, then dies spitting out the above error.

Bug reports about version 291:

* The install overwrote my icon for Custom Tool 1 without warning. Luckily I had a back up on another computer to replace with.

* The install obse dll feature does not seem to work. I took FastExit and modified the archive to a Simple format (i.e. an obse directory - removed the src directory altogether). Now when I select the archive it says that it has 1 file but does not show anything in the Configured Files list below. Right-click on the archive and check "Has Extra Directories" - still nothing in the Configured Files list. Right-click on the archive and check "Override skipped files" - still nothing in the Configured Files list.

On the assumption that it is just a "visual" error, I install the archive - no warning pops up like I expected - the install "appears" to have succeeded. (Since I actually do already have FastExit installed I can't say whether the install actually did anything.)

I do an uninstall on the archive and Wrye Bash goes "Not responding" for a long time. When it comes back, the FastExit dll which was in obseplugins still is there.

EDIT: Here is the structure of the archive I created for my test -

works no problems on Win7 64bit... my new main dev environment; if you currently have it working shouldn't have any problems.


hmmm I really do have to figure out why it isn't working... I keep saying I will.


looking into that error (its erroring in the race patcher section so it'll *probably* work if you disable that section)... not a problem in the way you enabled; probably an error in the code just debugging it.


ah yes the installer doesn't ask if you want to overwrite existing files; then it would in most cases have to ask about every file for a no... I guess I could set a yes to all enabled overwrite dialogue up if that would be good?
to use the obse installation you have to select the option in the rightclick header menu on the installers tab... did you do that? (Has Extra Directories should in most cases not be required).
Pacific Morrowind