Maya's Hidden Map Markers for Mod Locations

General Description

Were you every annoyed by the fact that so many mod added locations come with visible map markers right from the beginning? To some you can even fasttravel right away. This might be useful if you want to roleplay a character that starts with a certain player home or under some other really special circumstances. But in all other cases its just unimmersive as f in my eyes.

I understand that mod authors want people to be able to get to their location right from the start. But if you're like me and end up with really large mod builds a totally cluttered map at the start of the game is just annoying. Why would I have two dozen random locations marked on my map without ever hearing or reading about them before?

How it works aka how you can do it yourself

The process of creating your own 'hidden map markers' patches is really simple. I just put these up as in my experience the majority of people hasn't even touched xEdit apart from maybe cleaning stuff according to a guide.

Map markers are nothing but objects placed on the map just like barrels or trees. What I did was finding the respective 'Placed Object' record, which is easy as the 'Name' in xEdit is the same as the name of the location on the map. That record got an entry 'Map Marker' and under that 'FNAM - Map Flags' where you can set certain flags.

• []Visible = the map marker is visible from the start of the game

  []Can Travel To = fasttravel is enabled from the start of the game

  []"Show All" Hidden = dont dare to ask me what exactly this does, we won't need it

  []Nothing = the map marker is invisible

  So all I've done was removing the 'Visible' and - if present - the 'Can Travel To' flags, thats literally it. Now you got a nice, immersive, vanilla behaving map marker.

  C'mon, I still don't get it, how does it work step by step?

  Allright, remember that group of people knowing nothing but the very very basics of xEdit from above? Here you go, step by step:

  1) Start xEdit (the x is a placeholder btw, in this case I'm talking about SSEdit) through your mod manager (which is hopefully MO2 or Vortex)

  2) When it asks you which modules should be loaded, loading the mod you want to patch is enough

  3) Once loading is finished (the last message in the log on the right should be 'Backgroundloader finished') expand the mod you want to patch by double clicking on it and look for 'Worldspace' at the bottom, thats where all the objects that are added to the world are in

  4) Now expand 'Worldspace' with double click while holding the left Alt key, that way everything inside 'Worldspace' will expand, not just the to