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[Eolath]

No idea either, if there's an issue it must be a time bomb or something, because I made several adjustments with the .esp enabled, and I don't have any problems.. well, the occasional crash.. but I always have that.

Over at Canadian Ice's Forum someone suggested it might be because if they plan on updating the data esp at a future time your mod would stop working, this made sense to me but I'm not sure if it is their reasoning.

cheers

Pen

Loading ESPs is never an actual problem. ESPs wont be loaded into your mod. As long as they're not active, if they update the ESM and change the name it might be problematic, but for an ESP? Doubt it.

How do you think compatibility mods are made? Mods that change the terrain between two certain mods to make it possible to activate them both at the same time without terrain clipping.

If the terrain is updated, stuff might bug out in your mod - but that wouldn't be any different whether you have the ESP loaded or not.

Sounds like a widespread rumor to me, but if someone from the Nehrim team could confirm or deny this, then it'd be great.

PS: problems you describe happen when you use stuff from the ESP or ESM and they get changed or removed, resulting in them being unusable in your mod aswell. So, always use your own versions of objects if you want to be completely save/clean.

[Pendraia]

Hi Eolath, thanks for the info. As a digital immigrant I often find some of the finer details hard to fully understand. I appreciate your explaining...
I also hope that someone from the team could explain the reasoning for not having it active.

So, always use your own versions of objects if you want to be completely save/clean.

I knew that if I was changing an item I should create my own version rather than change the standard item, are you suggesting here that any item you use in a mod should be your own version? Or do you mean the same as above?

Thanks

Pen

[Eolath]

Hi Eolath, thanks for the info. As a digital immigrant I often find some of the finer details hard to fully understand. I appreciate your explaining...
I also hope that someone from the team could explain the reasoning for not having it active.

So, always use your own versions of objects if you want to be completely save/clean.

I knew that if I was changing an item I should create my own version rather than change the standard item, are you suggesting here that any item you use in a mod should be your own version? Or do you mean the same as above?

Thanks

Pen

With the risk of sounding like a hypocrite, using any item/object from the Nehrim ESM could potentially break your mod. (This is very much a gray area. In vanilla oblivion this wouldn't be a problem, because Bethesda basically stopped updating the Oblivion.esm. But SureAI is still updating Nehrim.esm) But creating your own version for everything you intend to use takes far too much space. Making your mod quite large in size, whilst the work you've done is minimal.

Let's just assume that SureAI wont change objects, like tables. Or remove basic items, like a simple shortsword. So we wont have to create seperate versions for that.

This is more or less a reponse to Chasm's question "One of the effects of loading NehrimData.esp is that you will get a seriously dirty mod" - this would only happen if you use an element from the NehrimData.esp, as far as I know, anyway. It shouldn't suddenly "corrupt" the entire mod if you use an esp from another mod in it. Dirty mods happen when you try to edit a vanilla weapon/armour (Like adding stats to a silver shortsword without creating a duplicate) or a vanilla script, change vanilla quests etc without intending to do so.

Anyways, still hope one of the tech can clear this question up once and for all.

[Chasm]

I've said this because a modder reported in the german section that his 2500kB mod turned -by not loading NehrimData.esp in the CS- into a 10kB mod.

Anyway(tm):

The SureAI Team officially warns against loading NehrimData.esp while modding.
Unfortunatly a similar sticky is still missing in the english section.

[Eolath]

Great! Thanks for the info.

It's all still a little vague, but atleast we know now.

[Pendraia]

Dirty mods happen when you try to edit a vanilla weapon/armour (Like adding stats to a silver shortsword without creating a duplicate) or a vanilla script, change vanilla quests etc without intending to do so.

Thanks, this part is what I understood needed to be done and I always create my own items for things like containers etc., that I change things on. Now I just have to work out how to add collision to items I've created from scratch and I might actually finish this project.

Thanks Chasm for the info from the German section...

cheers

Pen