Respawnneartown Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 i have .esp with 20+ armor items name and I want to rename all and add my name tag like [xxx]. How to do it using tes5edit?
begalund Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 i have .esp with 20+ armor items name and I want to rename all and add my name tag like [xxx]. How to do it using tes5edit? Well, let me hope I'm answering your question correctly. I just learned this myself the other night, you can thank groovtama for the support, since he is the one that helped me with my very similar question. Assuming you are copying the items into a new .esp (or not, the procedure is the same), you do the following: 1. Open TES5edit. deselect all mods. then select only the one you want to modify or copy from and any dependencies you might need for it (in my case I was making a new mod so I just selected "update" which auto-adds "skyrim"). 2. click on the plus sign next to that mod once it is fully loaded. it should now open up all the subfolders within it in a structure similar to the CK structure. navigate through that tree to "armor addon" and then to the item you want to copy/modify. 3. right click on that item and select "copy as new record into". You now have the option to either add it to the original mod with a new name, or to add it to another mod (if you selected more than one to load originally), or to create an entirely new mod (it will ask you for a name for the new mod in this case). 4. repeat for all armor addons. I recommend keeping the "AA" suffix at the end, just to be consistent, but it isn't required. 5. now do the same thing under the "armor" section of the tree. Hopefully all of the items you are copying/modifying are named similarly or with a theme because you can filter the selection choices down using the blank editorID field above the tree window. Once all of the "armor addon" and "armor" items are copied over with new names, you can edit them further inside TES5, but if you are making drastic changes to them, (other than minor things like renames or the like) then I'd still load them up inside the CK and individually and check them there. I know there are automated tools for doing some of these steps, but I've never gotten them to work. This was the easiest way for me, and I sing groovtama's praises for teaching me. Edit: You could look at the TES5 automation tools over on the nexus. one of the scripts included in that package allows you to change/replace formIDs (I assume there are other related edits that go along with it), but I haven't had a lot of luck using that toolkit - mostly cause I'm either an idiot or it doesn't work all that well from inside MO. Plus, the steps listed above work just as well for making a single armor mod with just a few items.
Respawnneartown Posted July 6, 2014 Author Posted July 6, 2014 i have .esp with 20+ armor items name and I want to rename all and add my name tag like [xxx]. How to do it using tes5edit? Well, let me hope I'm answering your question correctly. I just learned this myself the other night, you can thank groovtama for the support, since he is the one that helped me with my very similar question. Assuming you are copying the items into a new .esp (or not, the procedure is the same), you do the following: 1. Open TES5edit. deselect all mods. then select only the one you want to modify or copy from and any dependencies you might need for it (in my case I was making a new mod so I just selected "update" which auto-adds "skyrim"). 2. click on the plus sign next to that mod once it is fully loaded. it should now open up all the subfolders within it in a structure similar to the CK structure. navigate through that tree to "armor addon" and then to the item you want to copy/modify. 3. right click on that item and select "copy as new record into". You now have the option to either add it to the original mod with a new name, or to add it to another mod (if you selected more than one to load originally), or to create an entirely new mod (it will ask you for a name for the new mod in this case). 4. repeat for all armor addons. I recommend keeping the "AA" suffix at the end, just to be consistent, but it isn't required. 5. now do the same thing under the "armor" section of the tree. Hopefully all of the items you are copying/modifying are named similarly or with a theme because you can filter the selection choices down using the blank editorID field above the tree window. Once all of the "armor addon" and "armor" items are copied over with new names, you can edit them further inside TES5, but if you are making drastic changes to them, (other than minor things like renames or the like) then I'd still load them up inside the CK and individually and check them there. I know there are automated tools for doing some of these steps, but I've never gotten them to work. This was the easiest way for me, and I sing groovtama's praises for teaching me. Edit: You could look at the TES5 automation tools over on the nexus. one of the scripts included in that package allows you to change/replace formIDs (I assume there are other related edits that go along with it), but I haven't had a lot of luck using that toolkit - mostly cause I'm either an idiot or it doesn't work all that well from inside MO. Plus, the steps listed above work just as well for making a single armor mod with just a few items. thanks for answer but i dont want copy items. I just want rename all items. Here is a simple example I know how to manually rename each armor, but I need a way to rename all at once. just add a tag in the screenshot
begalund Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 Other than attempting to write your own tes5 script, I'm not sure anyone has made anything like what you are looking for. I went and looked closer at the tes5 automation tool scripts and they specifically mention only working with formIDs since they can't seem to play with editorIDs (I believe they are mod load/individual machine install specific). However, the name slot shouldn't vary, so you could likely modify one of those scripts pretty easily to play with the name slot rather than the formID. might be worth a shot. Of course, if you are only planning on changing 20 or so items, you'd be done already.
zieggenfus Posted July 12, 2014 Posted July 12, 2014 i have .esp with 20+ armor items name and I want to rename all and add my name tag like [xxx]. How to do it using tes5edit? Search for 'Automation Tools for TES5Edit'.
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