Talk:Data file

Master Files

So if the Creation Kit was the tool used by the developers to make the base game, then why can't it make master files? -- Jumps-Down-Stairs (Speak) 08:07, 8 February 2012 (EST)

The entire delay between Skyrim's release and the CK's was to modify and remove features from the CK that they didn't want to make public for whatever reason. Most of these were for licensing reasons (i.e. stripping out utilities they couldn't legally give us), but some were because Bethesda didn't want to support them (e.g. masters, version control I think, though that may have been a legal thing too). I don't know why Bethesda doesn't want to support creating masters.

It's even possible that the CK never did, and they used some other tool to "mastery-ify" it at the last stage. We'll probably never know. At any rate, that's what we'll end up doing, if we want to make master files.

Dragoon Wraith TALK 09:11, 13 February 2012 (EST)

Merging .esp files

Does the Creation Kit have this functionality? Ub3rman123 05:30, 13 February 2012 (EST)