jamenta

FAQ Updated January 28, 2007
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This update mostly reformated section headers and cleaned up
or tightened language. Some links were changed or updated. I also
added a few additional mod recommendations in
the "Miscellaneous But Still Good" group, and one mod was removed.

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FAQ: Modding Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV

Droopz

Could you just give a quick list of what was updated? Just so we dont haveto re-read the whole thing looking for changes :P

jamenta

Hmm. Yeah, that would be better. OK, things updated. I may miss a few
things:

-Changed fonts on many of the titles.

-Cleaned up text or rewrote text to make it tighter or clearer

-New "Oblivion Mod FAQ" link in Section II, this links to a better website
to introduce you to Oblivion Modding

-Restructured in Section II "Recommended Mod Lists Links" and removed
one link and added a new one (Red Room Service Mod Listing)

-In My Recommended Mod Listings in GROUP VI I made following changes:

REMOVED: JM's Bar Fights

ADDED: Beast Tongue Evolved, Guild Skill Requirements, Khajiit Night-Eye
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FAQ: Modding Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV

collision

Quick question, will all these mods play nicely with one another?

(IE. I download them all and use them with Oblivion.)

Thanks!

jamenta

Hi Collision & welcome to Overclock.net! It's a most excellent community of Overclockers and
whatnot.

Answering your question: I use them all. It's a rule of thumb I keep when recommending a mod,
I have to play it myself. I've taken some mods off my list as soon as I realized
they were problematic in some way.

When you begin downloading a lot of player mods, inevitably you'll get a lot
of overlap and conflicts. This is OK as long as one mod doesn't cause another
mod to bomb out, or even to cause Oblivion to crash (and that can occur).
So far as I know, all the mods I recommend don't do that.

However, because mods will overlap and conflict, you have to decide
which Mod's data is more important to you and load that mod last. As
the last loaded Mod will be the data loaded by the Oblivion launcher, loading
over any previous conflicting mod data.

If you do plan on loading a lot of mods, including all of those I recommend,
get OBMM. It will help you with load ordering, archive invalidation problems,
and makes it easier to install/uninstall your mods at will.

Good luck!

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FAQ: Modding Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV

collision

Ohh! Will OBMM take care of the ordering automatically? Or is there any specific ordering I should follow?

Thanks again, these mods look like they will improve my Oblivion experience.

jamenta

February 4, 2007 FAQ Update:

Wow, this was a huge week for the Oblivion modding scene. Not only was
Qarl's Pack III released, but another superstar mod was updated
The Unofficial Oblivion Patch version 1.7.0 with now over 800 bugs fixed.
Also two BIG re-texturing mods were updated.

My FAQ changes were limited to my Recommendations section. I updated
links and added related text for:

-Qarl's Pack III, Blockbuster Group & World Textures Group
-Unofficial Oblivion Patch
-Almost Everything VWD
-Harvest [Containers]
-Improved Trees and Flora

I also removed a number of Texturing & Parallaxing Mods including Qarl's
Pack 2 and the Cities Parallax Giga Pack which Qarl's Pack III now covers.

Have run out of time this Sunday afternoon as there are a few more
significant mods I want to check-out and add. Will do so in next few days.

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FAQ: Modding Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV

jamenta

Yes, OBMM makes it easy to order your Mods. You still have to decide
how to order, See my FAQ on a basic explanation on How to Mod.

Eventually I plan on adding a section on Mod Ordering to the FAQ. It's
a project for the future.

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FAQ: Modding Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV

jamenta

FAQ Update! This week only updates my recommended mods section:

REMOVED
Gorier Blood: Just a little too bloody for my tastes.
Survival Suite Hunger, Thirst, Sleep: Nice idea, but makes game more
tedious and then started getting buggy.

UPDATED LINK
Unofficial Oblivion Patch: Small upgrade 1.7.0 to 1.7.1

ADDED
Apophis: Armory of the Silver Dragon -Extremely popular sets of armor,
looks good. Added to my slim Items group.

Colored Enemy Health: Makes it easier to see how well you're doing against
your foe by changing your enemy health bar different colors.

Complete Gardening: Very nice and complete mod to assist you in the more
relaxing aspects of Oblivion. Also changed main title of this group to "Books,
Paintings & (Doh!) Gardening. Gardening? Yes ... dammit, gardening.

The Complete Ranger: Expanded Ranger for players that want to play a cool
Ranger in Oblivion.

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FAQ: Modding Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV

collision

Finally just finished going through all the mods, wonderful list! In the process of installing them now, I was wondering if you could share your load order Jamenta? OBMM has a import/export function might be pretty handy for new people like me. :P