tes3cmd
Mod Installation/Setup Info
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C:\games\OpenMWMods\Tools\tes3cmd
How to run TES3CMD to clean a plugin:
Step 1: Download It
Windows users want to use the file from the download link above.
Linux users can get a distro-agnostic binary executable from this link. Be sure to make it executable (chmod +x tes3cmd-0.37w.linux.x86_64
)
macOS users will want to download this file (make sure to make it executable before you try and run it). Note that you also need to ensure perl is installed on your system, and the following may also be required to satisfy dependencies (run from a terminal):
cpan install Config::IniFiles
Once you've downloaded TES3CMD, place it into the data path folder listed above.
Step 2: Run It
Windows
- Copy the plugin you want to clean into the folder where tes3cmd is
- Navigate to the folder where tes3cmd is and
Shift+Right click
the folder to bring up the context menu. ClickOpen Powershell window here
and type the following command, replacing the file name in quotes with the one you’re trying to clean:.\tes3cmd.exe clean "Plugin_Name_Here.esp"
- When this completes, you'll have a plugin named
Clean_Plugin_Name_Here.esp
. Copy that into the mod's data path folder and delete the dirty plugin from your Morrowind Data Files folder
That's it!
Linux/macOS
- Open a terminal
- Type
cd /home/username/games/Morrowind/Data Files
, but replace the path with the path where your Morrowind Data Files folder actually is on your computer - Copy the plugin you want to clean into this folder (it's just temporary, we'll remove it when we're done with this)
- Type
, but replace the path with the actual path to the folder where tes3cmd is on your computer, and the name of the plugin with the plugin you want to clean (macOS users should also change the TES3CMD executable name)/home/username/games/OpenMWMods/Tools/tes3cmd/tes3cmd-0.37w.linux.x86_64 clean Plugin_Name_Here.esp
- When this completes, you'll have a plugin named
Clean_Plugin_Name_Here.esp
. Copy that into the mod's data path folder and delete the dirty plugin from your Morrowind Data Files folder
That's it!
Further References
Run tes3cmd clean --help
for detailed information about how the program cleans.
The official wiki and this reddit post about using tes3cmd.exe
with MO2 on Windows are great resources.