I heard that when this mod is installed it will solve form id problems when shivering isle conflicts with knights of the nine thus making the cs kit crash when trying to modify or use the knights file
I'm not sure what Wadivans was asking, (before being banned) and I've been away. However, obviously, this isn't meant to be used as a master for moding in the CS, but to get (back) to a point where you can enable or disable the Shivering Isles expansion in the launcher when playing the game.
If you purchased Oblivion as a GOTY or GOG download, I imagine that wold be useful if you can't stand Sheogorath, for example.
Where it may come in useful for modding would also be if you wanted to be sure your new mod worked for users who don't have SI, even though you purchased TES-IV _with_ SI included. You _could_ do that, if you wanted. As a software developer, I was always taught to keep your dependencies to a minimum, so it would seem sensible not to require SI for your Skyrim hair back-port (or whatever) is completely unrelated to SI content.
If you are creating a mod specifically _for_ SI, then it would be better to base that on an unmodified install. Test it with the split ESM, by all means, but create it unmodified. ;)
I don't normally like to self comment, but I'm sure the first thing on every ones mind with this, is "how can this upload NOT include copyrighted material".
So before you flame, or ask that this be taken down, I'd like to explain that this file is a "delta archive" which is to say, the data set used to create the archive is the original Shivering Isles Oblivion.esm... so if you don't have that, then the patch has nothing to modify.
Specifically, it rearranges the data in your Bethsoft provided esm till it looks like an uncompressed archive of the pre-SI esm and my SI-difference esm, then extracts the two files from that.
The fact that (almost) all the date from the final two files is in the SI-esm, the only thing this contains is the information needed to re-arrange it into the split esms.
Is it clear yet? There IS NO SHIVERING ISLES DATA in this package. So if there's any ethical hackers out there that think they can get some back, I'd love to hear from you.
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can this be the Case?
If you purchased Oblivion as a GOTY or GOG download, I imagine that wold be useful if you can't stand Sheogorath, for example.
Where it may come in useful for modding would also be if you wanted to be sure your new mod worked for users who don't have SI, even though you purchased TES-IV _with_ SI included. You _could_ do that, if you wanted. As a software developer, I was always taught to keep your dependencies to a minimum, so it would seem sensible not to require SI for your Skyrim hair back-port (or whatever) is completely unrelated to SI content.
If you are creating a mod specifically _for_ SI, then it would be better to base that on an unmodified install. Test it with the split ESM, by all means, but create it unmodified. ;)
So before you flame, or ask that this be taken down, I'd like to explain that this file is a "delta archive" which is to say, the data set used to create the archive is the original Shivering Isles Oblivion.esm... so if you don't have that, then the patch has nothing to modify.
Specifically, it rearranges the data in your Bethsoft provided esm till it looks like an uncompressed archive of the pre-SI esm and my SI-difference esm, then extracts the two files from that.
The fact that (almost) all the date from the final two files is in the SI-esm, the only thing this contains is the information needed to re-arrange it into the split esms.
Is it clear yet? There IS NO SHIVERING ISLES DATA in this package. So if there's any ethical hackers out there that think they can get some back, I'd love to hear from you.