One can already do some simple stuff like changing game settings, redefining globals, and simple moving of references in the world.

The guys apparently work faster than fast - the test version is already leagues ahead of the capabilities of Snip and 圎dit has no history of mishandling compression and inducing corrupted output. So? Most of the knowledgeable people in this thread trying to warn you about using Snip have even more modding and development experience than you do. So you're now openly trying to assert that a tool known to generate corrupt output has been fixed when it's plain as day this hasn't happened. The CK could not (or possibly chose not to) correct it.Īnd anyone can plainly see in the commit logs on GitHub that no effort has been made to address the actual problem with the compression corruption. The damage ran deep in those cases because of the mishandled compression issue. Took months, and a lot of folks had to rebuild their mods from scratch in the CK. It became crystal clear after SOME of us (myself included) were foolish enough to use Snip to do mod cleaning with, which made the corruption issue stand out like a sore thumb. Suddenly reports of corruption began to drop. When the CK finally came out, some folks got lucky and were able to resave Snip-created mods and resolve their issues. Corruption was showing up more and more often, and it became clearer and clearer that it was due to using pre-release tools. Then, after it became clear something was very wrong, people began posting about it. But the utter certainty displayed in this thread that all ESP-based mods suffer from hidden corruption issues because a single tool from back in the early days of Skyrim modding caused problems, even though those corruption issues haven't yet actually manifested themselves in anyone's Fallout 4 game as far as anyone knows, is silly (especially since most ESP-based mods probably aren't made with that specific tool anyways).Īnd such is how it started off back then too, back in November and December of 2011. No, you shouldn't use ESP-based mods right now if you're not willing to lose your saved game. Some of the mods I've worked on have even been integrated into the base games in some fashion (wall displays in Skyrim, and hotkeys being remembered when you drop and then pick back up an item in Fallout 4), though I'd guess that's convergent evolution rather than Bethesda specifically setting out to copy me. That doesn't mean that non-obvious issues aren't there (they probably are).Īlso, Fallout4Snip has been updated since then (though as far as I know it shouldn't fix the problems from back then).įinally, I've been involved in modding Bethesda games since Morrowind - not just in using, but in developing them. Except, ya know, people are using ESP mods now without obvious corruption issues.

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