Fallout Mod Manager

[Poitoy]

Hello,

 

I am new to these forums and even thought I searched in most places that I suspect where instructions to the Fallout Mod Manager would be, I still can't find it.

 

Even thought being new to this awesome forum, and to the world of Mods am a veteran at gaming and each they I search for new things to make my gaming experience better, or just find new ones. A friend of mine appointed me to this forum, where I was able to find this new and mysterious things (well for me :P) called Mods.

 

Apparently I could enhance my gaming experience both visually and through game play,

My original idea was to make an army of companions and my friend say "Hey, I know how you can do that!" and appointed me to these mods.

 

Now here comes the questions, how do I put these mods in my game?

Or a simpler one, how to use Fallout Mod manager? Is there an instructions part somewhere?

If so could you appoint me to it?

 

Thanks guys!

[buddah]

from the read me:

 

Name: Fallout Mod Manager

Version: 0.9

Category: Utilities

Author: Timeslip

Source: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=247976

Forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=247976

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fomm/

 

Description

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A collection of utilities for mod users and creators. Included are tools for one click mod installation and removal, load order manipulation, esp editing, bsa creation and extraction, sdp editing and more.

 

Install

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First extract the .7z archive to a location of your choice. Make sure you keep the directory structure intact.

 

If you only have a single, retail DVD install of fallout 3 you can run fomm from anywhere; the only restriction is that it needs to be somewhere that it has write access to. If you have multiple installations, or you are running a downloaded version of fallout from D2D or steam, you will need to either install fomm into the same directory as the fallout3.exe of the game you want to run it with, or manually edit the settings.xml file to add the node '<strValue name="FalloutDir">add the full path to your fallout directory here</strValue>'.

 

If fomm crashes on startup with a generic windows error then you likely have a problem with your .NET installation; fomm requires .NET 2.0 to run. Among the other third party gunk that the fallout 3 installer installs alongside the actual game is the original prepatched version of .NET 3.0, which under some circumstances can cause .NET 2 applications to break. In this case visiting windows update and installing the .NET 3 patch it offers you is sufficient to get fomm working.

 

Uninstall

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No special uninstallation is required; just delete fomm. (Or run the uninstaller, if you used the automatic installer to install fomm in the first place.) Before you do so you'll probably want to undo any changes that have been made with it, such as deactivating fomods or removing archive invalidation. All fomods you have installed will be saved in a 'mods' directory in the same folder as fomm.exe, which you may or may not want to delete along with fomm.

 

Contact

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You can find me on the official Elder Scrolls forums or sourceforge as 'Timeslip'.

 

Credits

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Thanks to Bethesda for creating Fallout 3.

Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.

Thanks to Quarn for ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated, which fomm uses as its archive invalidation method.

Thanks to the long list of people who helped out with obmm development, which fomm is partially based on.

Thanks to qzilla for the icon.

 

Licensing/Legal

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This mod is released under the GNU General Public License.

The GPL can be found here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

 

 

 

After you have installed FOMM, launch it and click on the help button.....most if not all of your questions will be answered there.

 

Buddah