Nov 24, 2019 · And that the - Main.BA2 file contains the files that go in the scripts and meshes folders While the file - Textures.BA2 contains the files that go in the textures folder. If not properly named and packed the game will not see the textures and you will have an invisible weapon. A useful tool for looking at the contents of a ba2 file is BSA Browser.

Jan 17, 2018 · I would keep them as BA2 files. There are few reasons for it. - Loose files will win ALL conflicts against archived once. - Loose files will physically overwrite each other. - In Fallout 4, BA2 archives are more performance friendly than loose files. - Unpackig BA2 files will break their file hierarchy. This may or may not be an issue ...

Jan 17, 2024 · It was time to retire my current character, redo the mod list, and start again. I try not to download any mods while playing a character to avoid the temptation of plugging them in on an in-progress save, so I downloaded a slew of new things - naturally, I was way over the ESM/ESP limit of 255. After cutting loose some mods I wouldn’t miss, and using the “could be light” Vortex feature ...

Sep 7, 2017 · Now on to the resources. These are either loose files or an archived ba2. These contain things like scripts, sounds, textures, meshes, etc. Loose files and ba2's must be packaged in a certain way for the game to find them. The top folder is always data, so either loose files or a ba2 will be packaged as follows data/meshes data/textures data/sound

Mar 16, 2024 · Recently, while using Buffout 4’s BA2 limit remover, I was sitting at around 750 BA2 files. My game would launch and start, but I was getting all kinds of visual anomalies like the face textures of NPCs being replaced with textures for other objects, and all metallic and glass textures turning into multi-colored pixelated messes.

Jan 23, 2024 · i just deleted all of my nexus mods because the game was getting kinda ♥♥♥♥, but i want to look at the vanilla files so i can delete stuff manually

Nov 10, 2020 · A blank or empty plugin with the correct name can be used if you just want it to load the ba2 file. modders do this all the time and an empty bsp file will simply force it to load the ba2 file with the same name before the - on the ba2 file without adding anything else to the game. For example DLCRobot.esm or DLCRobot.esp or DLCRobot.esl

and a load of files with .csg and .ba2. cdx and sooooo on in the past i would just open the folder i would need to get into and just drag and drop but i guess things have changed since i last changed dogmeat or played fallout <update> just draged the folder Textures\Actors\Dogmeat with the newly changed eyes and other .dds's into the fallout4 ...

Jan 22, 2017 · I don't know what these mean or what the differences are. I have lots of mods but usually I just install the most updated version of the mod (also follow directions for said mod). I also see some mods have a BA2 version to download via NMM but I don't know what the difference/benefit would be? I don't know a lot about modding, I …

Extract the whole ba2. Delete all files except the one you want...or use bsa browser which will extract single files from within a ba2. Yep if you want to have loose files. Loose files hit performance. Especially alot of them. Of course have 2 back ups or even 3 of the original .ba2 Lots of backups in case of a problem.