CheezMon117 Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 Starting a new LE playthrough. I downloaded a bunch of mods from the Baidu/9Damao request thread here, and some of the files aren't labeled as being for Special or Legendary Edition. Before I go about trying to play with them in my load order, is there an easy way to determine what edition an esp. is for?
Alessia Wellington Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 Load the plugin into xEdit. In the File Header you can see if it's form 43 or 44. 43 is LE, 44 SE.
Just Don't Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 Open xEdit with your entire loadorder. Select your mods one by one and check the Form version. Example: Spoiler My SE loadorder in xEdit, the Form Version is immediately visible in the right panel when I select the Unofficial patch plugin (the list in the left panel): Any plugin or master file with Form Version=44 was made for Skyrim SE. Any plugin with an .esl extension instead of .esp is a plugin made for Skyrim SE. Edit: went for a coffee while I was typing and didn't see the previous answer, oh well.
Grey Cloud Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 29 minutes ago, Just Don't said: Edit: went for a coffee while I was typing You must have very long arms. ?
Corsayr Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 47 minutes ago, CheezMon117 said: Starting a new LE playthrough. I downloaded a bunch of mods from the Baidu/9Damao request thread here, and some of the files aren't labeled as being for Special or Legendary Edition. Before I go about trying to play with them in my load order, is there an easy way to determine what edition an esp. is for? Not sure about LE, but SE doesn't seem to care if it is 43 or 44.
Just Don't Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 18 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said: You must have very long arms. ? Not long enough to get my coffee without leaving my desk, and not fast enough to do so and type a reply on time. Sad average arms.
Hex Bolt Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 22 minutes ago, Corsayr said: Not sure about LE, but SE doesn't seem to care if it is 43 or 44. That's true, but I think the point is that if it's form 44 it's almost certainly made for SE (I suppose it could be a back port where the modder didn't change the form number). If it's 43 then yeah you have to guess if it will work. If I'm uncertain that I can use a mod for LE, and the mod has mesh files, I'll try viewing them in the creation kit. If I see the red diamond, it's not for LE. That said, a lot of mods that don't have their own meshes work fine on either version. Sometimes you have to browse the discussion, or just give it a try.
Corsayr Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 20 minutes ago, HexBolt8 said: If it's 43 then yeah you have to guess if it will work. If someone has an example of a form 43 that doesn't work in SE as is, that would be very interesting to see. So far every mod I have tried works just fine as a form 43 in SSE. It don't even test meshes, I just Cathedral convert all the assets. It takes seconds and cathedral doesn't convert anything unless it needed it. ?
Tlam99 Posted October 15, 2020 Posted October 15, 2020 rough guess, >100 mods are form 43 in my SE setup. As our friendly woodelf mentoned, CO does the job.
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