Solved Does plugin order matter?

[VRmatt]

Curious if changing the order of a persons plugins have any effect?
If so, is there a plugin that let's me reorder them?

 

[Nameless Vagabond]

No, it does not matter

 

[MacGruber]

It affects loading order, which may be an issue if plugins refer to each other.

You can theoretically reorder plugins by manually renaming them in the scene JSON. Be careful to not break trigger references, though. Best way is methodical use of Search&Replace. Not a recommended procedure when you don't understand what you are doing. It's very easy to break a scene when editing JSON by hand. (TL;DR: Make sure you got at least a backup of your scene!)

 

[hazmhox]

For potential future readers of that thread, and to be sure that there is no doubt about what Mac explained and avoid confusion with the first answer of that thread: YES, plugin order matters in specific situations. To avoid any doubt or issues, you should consider plugin order always matter.

 

[VRmatt]

This begs the question - is there a scene plugin that would allow me to reorder or rename them locally to the scene (so this only changes things on surface, like an alias, so the order changes)

 

[hazmhox]

This begs the question - is there a scene plugin that would allow me to reorder or rename them locally to the scene (so this only changes things on surface, like an alias, so the order changes)

I don't think anybody ever worked on that since I suspect most people don't use presets very much to build scenes (at least, tied to plugins).

Can you elaborate on why you'd need that? Do you have a problem at the moment with plugin order?