FOMOD Plus for Mod Organizer 2

Overview

A total rewrite of the FOMOD installer. Supports all features of the original FOMOD installer, and adds a few new ones.

Features

• Highlight previously selected options.
• Select previously installed options (where feasible).
• Filter by mods installed via FOMOD. Pic
• A Scanner plugin to retroactively mark mods as FOMOD-installed where possible. Pic
• A nice wizard hat in the content column to indicate the mod was installed via FOMOD. Pic
• Window sizes and splitter positions persist between mod installs.
• FOMOD installer window won't block the main MO2 window. No more quitting the installer to check if you installed A, B, or C.
• Optimized image viewer

How to Install

1. Unzip the latest release into your MO2 plugins directory.
2. If running for the first time, use the scanner to populate your mods.
3. Install FOMODs as normal and enjoy the new features.

Future Plans

Since this is a WIP and barely in alpha stages, expect some bugs as things progress. Some of my plans, roughly ordered, include:

• Searchable installation notes (manual input and automatic)
• Introduce new optional features to the FOMOD XML schema to allow more fun~.

TODO: Icons for each heading

Troubleshooting

FAQ

Tech stuff below

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Developing

Development of this plugin is done within the context of mob. You'll want to follow all setup instructions for mob before proceeding.

1. Set up mob and all of its requirements.
2. Clone this repository inside the generated <rootDir>/build/modorganizer-super directory.
3. Open in your IDE of choice. I prefer CLion and it should be fairly painless.

Note: I don't have a good setup for building to DLLs within the repo at the moment.

The project is divided into two targets, fomod_plus_installer and fomod_plus_scanner. Hopefully the distinction is self-explanatory.

Technical Reasons

MO2 plugin architecture doesn't support providing multiple C++ plugins in one target. Even if it could, FomodPlusScanner implements IPluginTool which conflicts in inheritence with IPluginInstaller.

Sorry for the headache!

Debugging

To debug:

1. Make sure you are debugging the fomod_plus_installer target (unless you're debugging the scanner).
2. Set your target executable to the MO2 executable inside <mobDir>/install/bin.

NOTE Inside CMakeLists.txt you'll see a pair of lines like this:

#set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELWITHDEBINFO ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../../install/bin/plugins)
set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELWITHDEBINFO "D:/Modding/MO2/plugins")

for some reason on my main PC I can't use the mob-built MO2 instance to debug without a lot of exceptions. This is not the case on my laptop. So if you get lots of exceptions pointing to the mob dev build, try changing the hardcoded path in that second line to your real MO2 instance.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Attribution

Much love and appreciation to the authors of the original FOMOD installer. Source can be read here if curious. Early development of this plugin was heavily influenced by the original codebase, and certain classes were lifted almost entirely from the original (with modifications and attribution in the file).

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