Feature Request: Shared Installations Skyrim SE/AE/VR

[turulo]

I'm a long time user of Vortex (and NMM) since it gets the job done, but when I started to mod SkyrimVR it started to become a nuisance. So I started to use MO2 which is not bad at all.

 

• Shared Installations between Skyrim VR / SE / AE:

 

The main issue that made me to switch is that I have to manage both Skyrim VR and SE (or AE in the future) and with MO2 I can have a single mod repository for both saving hundreds of gigabytes of space and days of mod management since >90% of the mods are shared between both games.

 

• Useless separation between SkyrimVR and SkyrimSE mods:

 

Another issue is that is extremelly annoying the separation between "/skyrimvr" and "/skyrimse" mods. You might not have noticed but if a mod is an SSE mod it will not show up when managing VR and most mods are SSE mods. So when you uninstall an SSE mod it goes back to the "/skyrimse" folder and it disappears from the "/skyrimvr" folder mods. Very annoying and totally useless separation.

 

• MO2's 'Override' folder:

 

Wow... the "Override" folder in MO2 is the best thing ever, it's so useful.

This and the feature that allows to put files changed by an app in a custom mod (such as FNIS or Bodyslide or TESEDIT cache files) is very very handy.

 

Please consider these features in the future.

[Pickysaurus]

To start out, SE and AE aren't different games so there's no reason to separate those two. Vortex already allows profiles and mod variants which cover the possible uses for these two.

 

In regards to VR, you can use this extension to share the downloads between different games: https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/224

 

Sharing mod staging folders is a bad idea, but if you want to do it I suppose you could create a hardlink between the mod in the two folders manually? If you change the mod in any way it could break the other games that rely on it.

 

I do agree about the override folder, but we've discussed it recently. The better solution is for tools like BodySlide to allow the user to specify a custom output folder which a user could then either set themselves or create a Vortex extension to direct the files appropriately.