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Mutagen-Modding / Mutagen.Bethesda.Analyzers

A project to diagnose and analyze the health of a mod or a load order
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Correct form version for game #21

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

The form version is a statement of what "version" the record structure follows. SSE has a different record structure from Skyrim. New Records in SSE

LENS
VOLI
SPGD (from FO4)

Changed records in SSE

MATO - changed Directional Material Data (L9895-L9929)
STAT - changed Direction Material (L12783-L12797)
WATR - changed Visual Data (L12920-L13041), added Flow Normals (L13057)
WTHR - added volumetric lighting (L13426-L13432), added LENS flare reference (L13442)
WEAP - changed Critical Data (L13159-L13183)

Changes subrecords in SSE

VMAD - added "large references"

Overview

If the plugin includes any of the above records or subrecords it NEEDS to be updated, else unknown/unpredictable problems may occur. I'd recommend converting ALL plugins though, as there may be other changes that have not been decoded yet.

It's your call, but why risk your save games/game stability when you can quickly and easily convert plugins to Form Version 44?

Source: Changes to TES5Edit wbDefinitionsTES5.pas since SSE was released

This applies to porting mods from LE to SE but all of the games likely have a range that forms should be in.