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About this mod

A tool that allows automatic creation of plugin files according to predefined instructions provided by the user or a third party.

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THE WHAT
This project is currently a proof of concept, meaning the current purpose mainly is to demonstrate the feasibility of the project and verify it has a potential to be practical and useful. Although the intended users of this tool include everybody who works or plays with mods to any extent in the future, because only a handful of kinds of forms is supported currently, if you are not a tinker of sorts this may not be very interesting to you just yet.

The road map includes an inevitable bump in form of Fallout 4 release and depending on how things go I might shift my focus to adjusting the tool to work with the new game if at all possible. Fingers crossed. 

THE WHY
This tool creates plugins, meaning ESP files in your data folder. It does so by performing certain user-defined operations on forms that meet a certain user-defined condition. The content of the produced plugin is fully dependent on the instructions provided by the user or a third party.

Thanks to this open concept this tool may be used in several scenarios:

Making personal patches and tweaks
This tool represents an alternative to other modding tools when a user wants to make their own changes to forms in one or more existing plugins. After the initial instructions are provided, the changes are applied automatically when the tool is run.

Making patches between conflicting mods
Mod creators may use this tool to generate patches between theirs and other mods and upload them on their mod page. The fact that the process is automatic allows mod creators to spend less time making patches and more time working on their mods. In this scenario the mod users do not need to use this tool as they will download the finished patch generated by the mod creator.

Uploading integration instructions along a mod
Instead of uploading the finished patch a mod creator may provide the patch instruction file or files. The mod user will then run this tool and generate the patch themselves. While this places a certain burden on the end user however the generated patch will allow the plugin to nicely integrate with any other plugins resulting in the least amount of conflicts possible. This scenarios is similar to many large overhaul mods that use SkyProc or similar utility.


Making plugins entirely with this tool alone
Depending on the complexity of the plugin it could be possible to create a mod using this tool only. The mod author can either upload the generated plugin or upload the instruction files and allow the mod users to generate the complete mod themselves. As in the scenario above, plugins generated by the end user will integrate perfectly with any other mod without the need for an extra patch.


Plugin analysis and inspection
The tool can also be used to very quickly inspect exiting plugins for mistakes or oversights made before they are released. A simple example is to make sure a specific group of forms is in a designated form list where they are expected to be.