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What is the mod cleaning process anyway? The mod cleaning process involves cleaning a mod file of duplicate/un-necessary records and un-deleting objects in the Masters that were inadvertently deleted - setting them to disabled instead. We also check for errors as well as looped level lists. The itemized cleaning process is: | What is the mod cleaning process anyway? The mod cleaning process involves cleaning a mod file of duplicate/un-necessary records and un-deleting objects in the Masters that were inadvertently deleted - setting them to disabled instead. We also check for errors as well as looped level lists. The itemized cleaning process is: | ||
# Identifying and removing records in a mod file that is identical to those in the Master files, which | # Identifying and removing records in a mod file that is identical to those in the Master files, which are useless in a mod-file and can cause conflicts with other mods. Removing these from your mod file is a primary goal of this process. | ||
# Identifying any records in the Master files which have been marked as deleted, which XEdit un-deletes and marks as, “disabled” instead. This ensures that any change made to that object by other mods won‟t cause crashes or conflicts, which can happen if a modder accidentally deletes a base object, which is modified by another mod and you get a null pointer – poof! | # Identifying any records in the Master files which have been marked as deleted, which XEdit un-deletes and marks as, “disabled” instead. This ensures that any change made to that object by other mods won‟t cause crashes or conflicts, which can happen if a modder accidentally deletes a base object, which is modified by another mod and you get a null pointer – poof! | ||
# Identifying any infinite loops in the leveled-lists, and ensure there are no physical/data errors with the mod file to round-out the clean-up. | # Identifying any infinite loops in the leveled-lists, and ensure there are no physical/data errors with the mod file to round-out the clean-up. | ||