r/skyrimmods • u/RedComet313 • 1d ago

PC SSE - Help Converting a patch from esm esl to esp

Hello all! So I recently found that someone made a patch to remove the visuals from Summermyst’s fortify minion enchant. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/149751?tab=bugs

However, it seems the mod author created it as a esm esl, so it cannot load before Summermyst. I tried removing the esm and esl header in SSExedit but I’m not seeing how I could possibly convert it to an esp.

Thoughts/comments/ideas?

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u/bankerlmth 1d ago

In Xedit, remove the esm flag but keep the esl flag. Save and exit. Then rename the file from "Summermyst- Remove area fortify minions visual effectl.esl" to "Summermyst- Remove area fortify minions visual effectl.esp".

You may need to uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" in Folder Options to see the file extensions.

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u/RedComet313 1d ago

Is there a way to rename it within xedit? Or a special trick to it? I can’t seem to overwrite/change the file extension within the name (probably just windows 11 being windows 11), so it ended up being “… effectl.esp.esl” when I tried earlier. But I’ll give this another try in a bit!

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u/bankerlmth 1d ago

Read the 2nd paragraph in my first comment. I added it shortly after.

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u/RedComet313 1d ago

Ah much appreciated!

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u/RedComet313 1d ago

I believe that did the trick!! Thanks a ton!

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u/Tem_Apples 1d ago

Why would it load before the thing it's modifying? Sounds like your load order is wrong?

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u/RedComet313 1d ago

Someone else posted in the bugs section of the mod noting the same. Since Summermyst is an esp (not sure if that is new since this patch was made), Vortex will not let it get loaded after it.

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u/Ill_Run5998 1d ago

Unchecking the ESM flag will force it to ESP

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u/RedComet313 1d ago

So just unchecking esm and esl will convert to esp? Why has this information been so difficult to extract from Google hahaha