Compatibility

This page will explain what compatibility issues Vampiric Hunger has and how to make it compatible with other mods.



About TESAME

TESAME is an esp / esm editor for Morrowind. It's name is the acronym of The Elder Scrolls Advanced Mod Editor. By using TESAME you can remove entries from any mod, merge mods and simply resave mods to set their date of creation to the actual date. You can download TESAME from here.

Using TESAME to change to loading order of the mods:
You can use TESAME to resave any esp file. By resaving an esp file it's contents won't change but it's date and time of creation will change to the actual date and time. You can use this function to set the loading order (the order they appear in the mod list) of the esp files.
So basicly when you resave an esp file with TESAME that esp file will go to the end of the mod list.
Note when you resave a file TESAME automatically puts a "Clean" word in front of the original file name. You should delete this word otherwise TESAME will create a new esp file and won't resave the old one.

Using TESAME to delete entries from an esp file:

  1. Open the esp file withTESAME
  2. Click on an entry with the mouse.
  3. Press the Space button to make that entry selected.
  4. When all of the entries you want to remove are selected press the Delete button.
  5. Resave the esp file without the Clean word.


Vampiric Hunger's configuration menu

There is a configuration menu in Vampiric Hunger. You can use this menu to enable / disable / tune all of the mods features. When some of the mod's features are not compatible with another mod you can use this menu to turn that feature off. To load the configuration menu first open the console with the ~ button. Then type: StartScript VH_Setup.



Vampire Embrace

Vampiric Hunger now requires Vampire Embrace 2.3. This means it's absolutely compatible with it. This version of Vampiric Hunger doesn't work with any previous versions of Vampire Embrace. About the next versions of Vampire Embrace: Possibly the base mod will work with any of the upcoming releases of Vampire Embrace (you might use Vampiric Hunger's setup menu to enable / disable some of it's feature). I'm unsure about the extended mod though. If it works then it works if not then I will release an update.



Vampire Realism

To make Vampiric Hunger compatible with Vampire Realism you must disable one of the mods hunger and scripted sun damage feature with their configuration menu.



Bloodlines

Bloodlines is now an old mod. It requires Vampire Embrace. The time when Bloodlines came out was when Vampire Embrace was still version 1.35. Since there are newer versions of Vampire Embrace Bloodlines became the older and Vampire Embrace the newer mod which causes some troubles and error messages. To fix it change the mod loading order by putting Bloodlines below Vampire Embrace and Vampiric Hunger - BL.esp below Bloodlines. (See the TESAME section above to learn how to change the loading order.)



About rats

Vampiric Hunger adds new scripts to almost all of the rats in the game for making it able for the player to feed on them. This can cause trouble with other mods that also change the rats. To fix this you must open Vampiric Hunger Base.esp with TESAME and remove all entries that type is CREA and there is a "rat" word is in it's name. There are 8 such entries. (See the TESAME section above to learn how to remove entries from an esp file.) Note that after this you won't be able to feed on rats and if you used Vampiric Hunger before you resaved them you will get an error message the first time you load your savegame. Very important that after this you must also make the other Vampiric Hunger esp files newer than Vampiric Hunger Base.esp.



Werewolf issue

There is a variable called PCKnownWerewolf in the game. When you become a known werewolf this variable will be set to 1, otherwise it's 0. When this variable is 1 every NPC will attack you in the game when they see you. Vampiric Hunger Extended uses this variable to make the nearby NPCs attack you when you drink blood or embrace in front of others. This can cause problems with mods that also check this variable. My mod, Regionally Known Werewolves can handle this issue. If you use any other mod that also checks this variable (Werewolf Forget for example) you should disable the Crowd Attack in Vampiric Hunger Extended's configuration menu.



Other known issues

While testing the mod I run into a strange bug. In my savegame I already was a vampire but nor Vampiric Hunger neither Bloodlines were loaded before. Then I tried enabling them both and after the loading the game crashed to the desktop without any warning. If you have a similar problem first try only load Bloodlines, save, then load Vampiric Hunger, too. It worked for me.



MGE Addon for MGE v1.10f-

This addon conflicts with other Morrowind Graphics Extender mods that use fullscreen shaders. The conflict is not a big one: only the last enabled shader will be active and when one of the shaders get disabled both shaders will disappear. The MGE Addon for MGE v1.11+ doesn't have this issue.



Bloodlust shader issue

It is reported that on some video cards the bloodlust shaders doesn't work correctly. The problematic shader is the Bloodlust 2.fx file. There are several things you can do: