Difference between revisions of "TES5Edit Documentation"

== Introducing FNVEdit ==

FNV-Edit is an advanced graphical module viewer/editor and conflict detector, with many additional functions that make it akin to a Swiss-army knife for modders and mod-authors alike. The primary function of FNV-Edit is to help you spot conflicts between mods and resolve them, as well as to prepare your mod-list for a smooth run-time with Master Update Mode (MUM). MUM resolves some bugs with Fallout: New Vegas and improves mod compatibility during run-time by turning all mod files into Masters (ESM) and creating the special ONAM records that allow the mod files to work together smoothly.

For the mod author FNV-Edit provides the capability of viewing mod files at great depth, cleaning mod files of extraneous and duplicated records, merging mods together, changing ESPs to ESMs and scanning references in mod files for reach ability, form errors and specific references. These functions are very important to mod authors in the Fallout: New Vegas environment, as they will clean the mod of un-intended changes, erroneous records and potential conflicts with other mainstream mods that players run.

Thus whether you use mods to enhance your Fallout: New Vegas experience or create mods for others to enjoy, using FNV-Edit is both a wise investment in time and a beneficial act for the modding community. Authors who clean and prepare their mods with FNV-Edit will experience fewer conflict and compatibility problems once published, and Players who de-conflict and MUMify their load-orders will be much less likely to experience crashes and head-aches. In general the use of FNV-Edit can only improve the inter-operability of all mods, and this can only be a good thing.

If I have not convinced you by now to invest an evening to learn how to use FNV-Edit, then you should be sacked and have a live Nuka-grenade stuffed down your trousers. If however you wish to do the right thing by the modding community, grab a coffee and let‟s get to work! FNVEdit is not a difficult tool to use, but it does require that your CPU (brain) be involved in the process, and that is what this tutorial is designed to teach.