Developer’s Log: January 16, 2025

  • Made great progress on the branding today. At least for a first pass. I think I have the logo and am playing with a hand-drawn loot pile look, yelow and teal. Looks really different.
  • Happy Little Trees – Aspen Addendum or Aspens Ablaze? More research needed.
  • Cathedral – 3D Mountain Flowers caused too many conflicts. Deactivated and will look at later.
  • Did some research on Vanilla Scripting Enhancements and Script (Micro) Enhancements. Unsure if installing them is needed or a good idea at this time. Should ask Robert his thoughts
  • Installed Happy Little Trees, and (after a quick internal debate) Treescale.esm. Spent about 30 minutes reviewing conflicts and creating a few patches.
    • Set Treescale.esm to load before USSEP in LOOT. Had to decipher whether or not Treescale.esm should load before or after USSEP. The Nexus description says to load “1 position higher” which isn’t clear. A screenshot on a post on the Articles tab shows it loading before USSEP, so that’s what I went with. It doesn’t matter if 10 or 20 or even 100 trees aren’t enlarged if it’s going to prevent visual issues.
    • Patched a few Treescale and HLT conflicts with Hearthfire, a couple AE add ons, and LOTD.  New mod: Dii Treescale Tweaks. Add to custom patches and LOOT group “late fixes and changes.”
    • CRC32s for Treescale kept updating and breaking my modgroups. Not sure why.
    • MO2 crashed 1 x right after creating a modgroup and exiting xEdit.
    • Cleared all conflicts in xEdit.
  • I noticed I hadn’t activated the LOTD Staff of Sheogorath Patch, because I forgot to do that after I reinstalled the LOTD Patch. When reinstalling with “Merge” MO2 infuriatinly doesn’t activate the newly added plugins. Some conflicts came up in xEdit. I’m going to bed.
  • Also installed:
    • Fixes and Tweaks > DLL Fixes
      • Disk Cache Enabler
    • Fixes and Tweaks > General Tweaks
      • Survival Mode Prompt Removed
    • Gameplay > Leveing and Progress
      • Alternate Start Live Another Life SSE
      • Alternate Start – Experience Patch
      • Alternate Start Voiced
    • Gameplay > Quality of Life
      • Weightless NG
      • Weightless – Dragon Bones and Scales SE
    • Enhanced Content > Dialogue
      • Bandit Lines Expansions – Dark Elf Voices for Bandits
      • Bandit Lines Expansions – Werebeasts Don’t Talks
      • Bandit Lines Expansions
      • Brawl Lines Expansions
      • Civil War Lines Expansions
      • Forsworn and Thalmor Lines Expansions
      • Vampire Lines Expansions
      • Vampire Lines Expansions – Orc Addon
    • Graphics > Visual Core
      • Glorious Gradients
    • Graphics > Trees
      • Skyland Happy Little Trees Bark – 2k
    • Graphics > Flora
      • Mari’s Flora – High
      • 3D Junipers – Trees and Berries
      • Cathedral – 3D Clover Plant – Hybrid 3D
      • Cathedral – 3D Deathbell
      • Cathedral – 3D Dragons Tongue – Orange
      • Cathedral – 3D Lavender
      • Cathedral – 3D Lavender – Desaturated Texture
      • Cathedral – 3D Nightshade
      • Cathedral – 3D Snow Berries – Green and Variegated
      • Cathedral – 3D Sword Ferns
      • Cathedral – 3D Thistle
      • Cathedral – 3D Tundra Cotton
    • Weather and Lighting > Weather
      • Moon and Stars – Sky Overhaul SKSE
  • Next up: Resolve conflicts from newly installed Staff of Sheogorath LOTD patch. Then reinstall Oblivion Artifacts.