Mods on Linux, Directory Names

[runewulfsong]

Hello, My girlfriend and I are both playing Skyrim on Linux (Mint 14) and I have it working fine through Wine, launching into it's own X Session, which was annoying to tweak but it's working well. We are having problems installing Mods though because some are loaded with proper case directory names and others with lower case, i.e. Data/Meshes/Actors/<mod name> and Data/meshes/actors/<mod name> and in any system other than windows, you can have multiple folders in the same directory that have the same name, just different capitalization. I've been googling for a couple days, but can't seem to find anything about what the directory structure is supposed to look like. Can anyone tell me whether all directories under Data/ should be all lower case or should be all proper case?

 

Thanks

[Ark of Truth]

One this should be in the Skyrim Techincal Support section

 

and two it shouldn't make a difference what case it is in.

[runewulfsong]

Sorry, this seems to be an issue with any of the games. We had the same kind of problem using mods in Fallout.

 

As far as case goes, it seems to be an issue with some mods that have multiple resources. So are you saying if I just flat out rename them so that they are consistant and I don't end up with a Data/Textures and Data/textures it should work?

[gregathit]

I have never seen that upper\lower case for folder names ever had any issues whatsoever in Windows - you can mix and match with zero issues.  Now if you are using WINE\Linux then we don't have the foggiest clue what complications that could be adding to the mix.

[runewulfsong]

Yeah, we're using Wine in Linux. I just wanted to be sure that there isn't a needed casing on the directory structure before I bulk rename it all to lowercase underneath the Data/ directory. I already wrote the python script to do it and tested it without saving changes, just don't want to totally frag the install.

[Slammer64]

Under LInux, all directory structures are lower case as Linux IS case-senstive e.g: /Data and /data are two different directories under Linux, but only one under Windows. In the case of WINE, you need to match as closely as possible the Windows directory names and structure or you WILL get crashes.

[runewulfsong]

That's kind of what I was figuring. I've written a python script that will keep everything below data lower case, so I'm hoping that resolves the issue.