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Does anyone know how to get a usable mod list from Vortex?

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I have been asking this question almost since Vortex launch and have yet to receive a response. I have submitted feature requests and gotten a "this is handled by an extension" (without specifying WHICH extension) and the report marked "closed."

 

It is not handled by any extension that I can find, including the "Showcase" extension, which produces not a modlist but an elaborate, complex, multi-line, overly verbose "blurb" about all of my mods.

 

It is not handled by any other extension that I can find.

 

I am not the only one trying to get a mod list from Vortex- see this topic for ppl who have been trying to use the modlist backup extension's output file to finagle a usable modlist since 2019 but failing because Vortex Modlist Backup includes all games instead of just the currently active game.

 

LOOT provides a concise PLUGIN list, but of course a plugin list is not a MOD list.

 

I have received no replies to my most recent posts on this subject. Why? Why are Vortex staff stonewalling on this? A usable, concise mod list should be a "native" feature of Vortex, not waiting for a random user to create an extension.

 

The only thing that explains the stonewalling and/or lack of response is that Vortex Devs believe that a modlist can somehow be extracted from Vortex and I'm just too stupid to find it. So I would very much appreciate it if someone could point me to a Vortex control button or extension capable of producing an actual current game modlist text file that looks something like this:

____________________________________| Plugins | Counts |________________

Mod Name (max 36 characters) |Type |Prefx|All|Slot|Lte| Inst Date/Time

Stabbery Gameplay Overhaul-SGO |esm |06 |001|001 | - | 2020-11-19 12:45

Argonian Fish Oil Miracle Diet Redux|esp |07 |002|002 | - | 2019-08-15 23:20

Realistic Flax Seeds with Parallax |espFE|FE000|003| - |001| 2020-01-01 08:16

[NiNi]Bring Me A Shrubbery Peignoir |esp |08 |004|003 | - | 2018-06-12 00:08

Serana Outfit Overrides by Vyx |esl |FE001|005| - |002| 2021-05-31 23:59
Kuzak Ponytail Retex by Vyx | - | - |006| - | - | 2018-06-12 00:07

Gnorman's Gnarlier Gnus of Gnamriel |esp |09 |007|005 | - | 2020-08-15 16:36

Very long totally non-descriptive na|esp |0A |008|006 | - | 2021-04-29 03:22

SGO Stuff That I Forgot To Put In Th|esp |0B |009|007 | - | 2020-11-19 12:46

Guide to Satisfying Nord Women #586 |esl |FE002|010| - |003| 2021-06-23 05:59

 

Please note that each mod is on its own line, and only 1 line *gasp* per mod. I have looked (and googled) and as far as I can tell no such list is currently available from Vortex. This lack seriously hampers our ability to manage (and share) our game's mod setups. I believe this lack makes Vortex the only currently supported mod manager that does NOT have a Modlist feature (not sure about the new Jabberwocky one though).

 

If anyone knows of any way whatsoever that I/we can generate such a list when Vortex is our Mod Manager of choice, please let me know, Thanks.

 

Note to Devs- before you blow me off again, please at least provide a link or the name of whatever extension or mod you believe will do this in a Vortex-managed mod installation. Thanks.

 

PS: "Showcase" will not do this.

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i thought i may be able to extract some information from vortex via sqlite but it seems that the backend data is not that easy to extract. i could have sworn that i read a while back that some data is kept in an sqlite database somewhere in vortex's directory structure, but i couldn't find anything like that when i looked earlier.

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  On 6/23/2021 at 1:34 PM, Zanderat said:

Thanks, Zander, but unless I'm missing something, the dir -n > mods.txt command simply outputs the contents of a directory to the mods.txt file. In other words, it misses the mark on 2 counts:

  1. It captures plugin names (which often do not match the mod name) and ignores mods with no plugins
  2. It also captures any stray files in the Data folder- readmes, xml files, whatever junk is in there

I can get perfect plugin lists from LOOT. However, a plugin list is not a mod list.

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  On 6/23/2021 at 8:03 PM, Pickysaurus said:

Have you looked at the Showcase/Modwatch extensions by agc? https://www.nexusmods.com/site/users/85550163?tab=user+files

Yes, I have tried to get a concise list similar to the example I posted above, but I can't make the Showcase extension do it even with the addon formats.

 

I have already posted the output I got from Showcase a couple of months ago, but it's buried now and this forum does not show me my own posts (on my Profile) so I can't find it at this point. But it contains many lines per mod, full of author blurbs, e.g. "This mod is designed to blah blah blah-de-blah" and arcane symbols like ╤ ╨ and so forth, and at several points it devolved into absolute gibberish- like what you see when you open an exe file with Notepad. It also contains redundant info like the url of the mod on Nexus and "Unknown" as the source of all non-Nexus mods. I don't need that in a modlist. I have tried all 5 or 6 formats I have in Showcase, and not one of them produces a usable, concise mod list similar to my example above.

 

Also, I do not wish to publicize my mod list for all the world to see by upping it to Modwatch- who knows, I might actually have some mods I wouldn't want my dear old mom to know I have. :ohmy:

 

I just want an actual one-line-per-mod concise local text file resembling the example I posted. Showcase is OK for what it does- it's a mod SHOWCASE full of author-provided marketing hype and gibberish symbols. But it is not a mod list.

 

Here is the closest thing to what I need that Showcase gives me- it doesn't have as many gibberish machine code symbols as some of the formats do (like the one I posted here last month), but as you can see, it's not user-friendly formatted, has WAY too much info, and lacks the info I need. Also, it appears to be in random order:

 

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I Just. Want. A. List. Of. My. Mods- with info only Vortex can give me (plugin type, counts, hex prefix, etc.)

 

So yes, I've tried Showcase as I indicated in my OP and posted examples of previously, and I don't want Modwatch or any other "cloud-based" service involved in my mod list.

 

Thanks for your reply and thank you for Vortex. Believe it or not, I'm a pretty big fangirl of Vortex.

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