Oblivion Mod:Complete Installation Guide for Oblivion/Part 2/BAIN/Create BAIN-Friendly Packages
< Oblivion Mod:Complete Installation Guide for Oblivion | Part 2 | BAINCreate BAIN-Friendly PackagesEdit
Download BAIN Conversion FilesEdit
BCFs need to be placed in Oblivion Mods/Bash Installers/BAIN Converters
. By default Oblivion Mods
is located in the Oblivion install folder, the same folder containing Oblivion
.
- High Res Skin Textures for HGEC (2048x2048)-20022-BCF
- DMCStylish-16459-BCF
- Slof's Oblivion Robe Trader-24320-BCF
- Initial Glow-5138-BCF
- Robert's Female Body Replacer v1.2-15624-BCF
- Tamriel Travellers-4387-BCF
- Seph's Hand-to-Hand Animation Replacer-13051-BCF
- Elves of Lineage II-12424-BCF
- Elven Map Redux-3002-BCF
- Mart's Monster Mod v3.7b3-17784-BCF
- Better Cities v4.6.1c-1651-BCF
- Harvest Flora-2037-BCF
- Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul v1.33-15256-BCF
- Visually Enchanted Customizer Fixed-8490-BCF
Convert the Downloaded ArchivesEdit
First steps: Initialialize Bash's Installers tab, then left click on the tab and choose 'Open'...
Streamline << -- BAIN-Ready
Common Oblivion (COBL) << -- BAIN-Ready
COBL Cosmetics << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Enhanced Economy << -- BAIN-Ready, but make sure 'Has Extra Directories' is checked
- Right-click on the Enhanced Economy package.
- Make sure there is a checkmark next to 'Has Extra Directories'.>> note: Without that check, the folder containing the Enhanced Economy price files would not be installed.
Harvest Flora << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > HF-BFC archive from the context menu.
nGCD << -- BAIN-Ready
Progress << -- BAIN-Ready
Tamriel Travellers (TT) << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > TT-BFC archive from the context menu.
Actors in Emotions << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Bank of Cyrodiil << -- manual but only requires a little repackaging that a BCF cannot do
- In the Bash Installers folder, right-click on the archive, and extract it there (i.e., with 7-zip's 'Extract here' command.)
- Rename the main file, replacing the "exe" extension with "7z".>> note: Most EXEs are not self-extracting 7-zip installers, but this one is (hence, why the changing of the extension did not make the file unrecognizable.)
- Add the ReadMe to the archive (i.e., with 7-zip's 'Add to archive...' function.)
- Delete the EXE and the loose ReadMe.
Slof's Oblivion Robe Trader << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > SRT-BFC archive from the context menu.
Qarl's Texture Pack III Redimized (QTP3R) << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Official Plugins << -- manual but simple (only requires packaging into an archive)For each DLC...
- Run the installer, which installs the plugin and corresponding BSA to the Data folder.
- Add the plugin and BSA to an archive.
- This is method creates simple packages. Alternatively, a BAIN-Ready archive could be made for all of the DLCs: Put each plugin and BSA in a folder, fittingly named, and then select and add all of the DLCs' folders to an archive.
- Put the archive in the Installers folder.
- Remove\Uninstall the installer-added (source) files.
Unofficial Oblivion Patch (UOP) << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
UOP Supplemental << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch (USIP) << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Unofficial Official Mods Patches (UOMP) << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Gates to Aesgaard Episode 1 (GTA1) << -- manual but simple (only requires packaging into an archive)
- Run the installer, which installs the plugin and corresponding BSA to the Data folder.
- Run the installer for the patch.
- Click 'Create'.
- Add the plugin and BSA to an archive.
- Put the archive in the Installers folder.
- Uninstall/remove the files placed by the installer.
The Lost Spires (LS) << -- manual but simple (only requires packaging into an archive)
- Run the installer, which installs the plugin and corresponding BSA to the Data folder.
- Click
Create
. - Add the plugin and BSA to an archive.
- Put the archive in the Installers folder.
- Uninstall/remove the files placed by the installer.
Martigen's Monster Mod (MMM) << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > MMM-BFC archive from the context menu.
All Natural (AN) << -- BAIN-
Let There Be Darkness (LtBD) << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Elven Map Redux << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Super Hotkeys << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Real Night Sky << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Initial Glow << -- manual and is already a simple package but could use some better packaging logic, handled by the BCF
Seph's Hand-to-Hand Animation Replacer << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > Seph H2H-BFC archive from the context menu.
Visually Enchanted Customizer Fixed << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > VE-BFC archive from the context menu.
Improved Facial Textures (IFT) << -- manual but is already a simple package (does not require repackaging)
Race Balancing Project (RBP) << -- BAIN-Ready
Robert's Male Body v5 << -- BAIN-Ready
Robert's Female Body << -- requires repackaging, but the BCF takes care of that
- Right-click on the archive.
- Choose Conversions > Apply > Robert Fem-BFC archive from the context menu.