TESPCD The Elder Scrolls - Morrowind Plugin Conflict Detector by Ely VanReen Soto
***This software is not created by the makers of Morrowind***
This software is provided "as is" with no expressed or implied warranty.
The author accepts no liability for any damage/loss of business/enjoyment that
this product may cause.
There are two modes of Checking Available, Single Versus All and Full Check.
Single Versus All Mode is used to check 1 plugin against another group of plugins. Only Conflicts between
your Chosen plugin and the other plugins will be reported. This may assist a plugin maker to verify
compatibility with another group of plugins. To select your single plugin select the File menu and
then select 'Choose Master'. You may then Select the rest of the plugins by selecting 'Choose Plugins'.
Full Check Mode reports conflicts between all the plugins.
After Selecting your plugins you may begin the Check Operation by selecting 'Check Conflicts' under the
Operations menu or by clicking the Red Right Arrow button on the toolbar.
The 'Extract Data' option under the Operations menu can be used to select and load a few groups of plugins at a time
before actually running the conflict check.
The Options Dialog allows you to choose which Conflict types you want reported when you run the Check.
This dialog can be reached from the Operations menu under 'Options' or by clicking the yellow 'OP' button on the toolbar.
Once your check has been run you can view the conflicting entries in more detail by Double Left Clicking either
of the FileNames in either Grid. This can allow you to compare what changes have been made to those entries and let you make
a decision of whether to delete it or attempt to merge them.
There are two modes the Viewer can take, Hex View and Grid View.
The Hex Viewer is a Hex Dump of the entry with the 'conflicting' differences highlighted in red. It is a Read Only Viewer.
The Grid Viewer is a formatted Viewer that displays the data in three modes, Hex, Decimal, and Ascii. You may uncheck
the readonly checkbox to enable Write mode so that you can edit the entry and save it to your esp. This can allow you
to copy changes from the other conflicting entry in an attempt to make them not conflict. Once your Changes are finished you
can click 'Write to Esp' to save your changes. A backup is created with the extension .OLD or a user defined one if it already
exists. Note: If you make changes to a field, the data must match the type field in format or unpredictable results will occur.
For example: If the type field is 'Ascii', your data must be in ascii, if 'Hex', it must be in Hexadecimal notation with
two characters in the range of 0 to 9 and A to F corresponding to a Byte. Similarly, the a field of type 'Dec' must be numeric
and must fall within the range of the Byte field. Ex: Byte = 1, then Max Data Number is 255. The program will
do validity checking in all of these cases to try and make sure your data is valid and appropriate.
If you decide to delete a particular entry you simply select the filename and press DELETE on your keyboard or
click the 'Delete Entry' button within the pop-up.
A backup will be created with the extension .OLD by default. If this backup already exists it will prompt you to overwrite
or to save a new backup.
---Frequenty Asked Questions---
Q. How do I know which entry is being used in game now?
A. The Overriding Entry Filename is displayed in the Column named 'Overriding Esp File'. This file has the
latest Last Modified Date.
Q. I have some great monster plugins but not all the monsters are showing up. What do I do?
A. Download and run the the Leveled List Merger Program by 'Horatio'.
If you run it everytime you add a new plugin you can ignore all your LEVI and LEVC conflicts.
Q. I keep getting these Dialog warning messages. How do I fix them?
A. One solution is locating the two mods which have the conflicting Dialogs and combining them
using the TES Construction Set. It would also be a good idea to delete and/or merge any conflicting entries
before combining them.
Q. How do I safely merge two plugins?
A. Check for Conflicts using the detector and delete any entries that you deem unecessary. Then combine
any entries that you think are important by choosing a master plugin and adding the changes to its entries from
the other plugin. Once you are done there, select the two plugins in the TES Construction Set and make sure the
master plugin with your changes is the Active one. Once loaded you can select 'Combine Plugins' from the TES
Construction Set's menu.
Q. I deleted a bunch of entries why doesn't my plugin work anymore?
A. Before you delete an entry look at its details within the viewer and/or the
TES Construction Set to make sure its not a vital entry or change.
Q. I have a good idea about how this program could work better. What do I do?
A. Email Me at elyvsoto@hotmail.com.
---Features---
Morrowind plugin (ESP) files contain entries of new or changed objects that the plugin adds to the game.
These entries are identified by an 'ID' and a 'Name' by Morrowind. If any two plugins are loaded that contain
the same ID-Name combination then Morrowind will only use the plugin file with the most recent 'Last Modified'
date. Those entries that are ommited can cause problems for the plugin they were intended for.
These problems can be minor, such as a weapon doing less or more damage than it intended, or it can
be major, such as a Script not running when intended.
This program 'TESPCD' detects these conflicting ID-Name combinations and reports them to the user.
The user can then see the entries that conflict by double-left clicking the filenames in the graph in
both a Hex and Grid type format.
With this information Mod makers/users can either modify their plugins to avoid the conflicts or the
users can manually choose to delete or combine the entries to allow the plugins to function together.
1. Locates Conflicting entries for the following Objects:
2. Ability to View Conflicting Entry Data if you double click
on the filenames in the Grid.
3. Reports Entries that are marked as Deleted in a seperate Grid. These should be monitored
closely since these are often mistakes.
4. Ability to Delete Reported Entries if you select a particular filename
and press DELETE. It will Backup your esp with the extension .OLD or your own specified
filename if .OLD filename already exists.
4. Ability to edit and modify entries.
---Proposed Features---
1. Viewing and modifying an entire Esp File
2. Comparing Containers and Doors and other Global Objects
against master file to see if globally modified
3. Optional Reporting of Cell Object Deletions.
(Someone puts a house and decides to delete a npc that was standing there)
---Version Details---
V0.20 Beta All New Entry Dialog to Ease Entry Viewing
Ability to Edit Entries and Save them to your Plugin
(This allows you to Copy and Paste Across Plugins to Ease Plugin Compatibility)
Updated Backup Code to be less annoying
Option Settings Now Saved in ini File
Various Minor Bug Fixes
V0.19 Beta The Plugin Entry that is Overriding will be displayed in the First Column with the name 'Overriding Esp File'
Entry Deletion Reporting in a Warning Grid.
Deletion of any Reported Entry - Press Delete while a particular Filename in a grid entry is selected
Backup Code for Deletion Sanity
GUI Touchups
Misc. Bug Fixes
V0.181 Alpha Quick Addition to Hex Viewer showing changes between the entries in Red
V0.18 Alpha Added Options Dialog to choose which Conficts to Display
Added Hex Viewer to see Entries if you Double-Left-Click on the
Conflicting Filenames
Added Right-Click Context Menus to Tree File View to Remove and
Add Plugins more easily
Added Ability to do new checks without restarting the application
Fixed a bug that froze the Operations
Fixed other misc. bugs
V0.17 Alpha Improved Accuracy of Conflict Detection *Much More Accurate Now*
This is done by a byte by byte comparison of all the data
in the conflicting entries
Added Detection for a few more entries
V0.16 Alpha Optimized Data Extraction Functions
Added Detection for many more entries
Added Single Versus All Mode of Detection for Mod Makers
Fixed Could not select more than 1000 characters in filenames
in Open Dialog
V0.15 Alpha -Reworked GUI-
Enabled Print/Print Preview
Added Ability to Sort GRID (Click on Fixed Grid Row to Sort)
Added Easier File Addition
Added Progress Bar
V0.10 Alpha Initial Release
---Issues---
1. DIAL - Dialog Detection Disabled
To correct Dialog entries warning errors you can combine the conflicting plugins.
---Not Supported in Near Future---
1. Ability to Check Overlapping Objects on the Map
