Highlight Suggestions/Improvements - Sets

[HadToRegister]

I'm currently playing Witcher 3 1.32, version 4.00 (Next-Gen) was just released, so what I wanted to do was make a "SET" of all of the 1.32 mods I have installed (I know about collections) I'm talking about assigning a SET of Mods that I already have installed. IE Ctrl-select the mods, and down in the little white menu pick something like "Create Set"

The best I could find was to assign a HIGHLIGHT to all those mods by filtering them with the ENABLED dropdown, then selecting them all, and assigning a Highlight to the filtered list.
OK, so far so good, now all of the 1.32 Witcher 3 mods I have installed are all highlighted with a Purple Eye.

However, you cannot (Well I can't find a way) make a second SET of mods and highlight those with a different color
My plan was to ctrl-select all the mods I downloaded that said NEXT-GEN, and highlight those with a different color, but it seems you can't ctrl-select a different group of mods and highlight those with a different color, and it seems the only way to do that is just to highlight ALL the mods in the list with one color and icon, then ctrl-select the mods you want, and change the colors and/or icon.

This is pretty counterintuitive considering the highlighting feature allows you to assign different groups of mods, different highlights, but forces you to highlight ALL the mods with the SAME color and Icon at first, and then change them afterwards, which could lead to a lot of user error/oversight

I would like to see a feature added to the highlight option where you can assign the highlighted mods with the same color/icon to a "Set", where you can Click ONE mod in the set, and the other mods in that set are also selected so you can do group operations such as "Uninstall/Install" etc.

I tried the mysterious "Combine" button, without knowing what's it actually does, but only got some message that all the mods needed to be the same etc
Being able to name the "Sets" would be handy as well, especially for things like Skyrim SE/AE, where you can specify whether the Mod "Set" is for 1.6.353, 1.6.640, GOG 1.6.659 etc

What I was attempting to do with the Witcher 3 is pre setup the Next-Gen mods, while keeping track of the 1.32 mods, so I could install the Witcher 4 update, uninstall the 1.32 mods as a "Set", and then easily select all of the Next-Gen mods as a different "Set" and install them with ease.

I was mainly doing this in case that I needed to roll back to 1.32 and by making the 1.32 vs the Next-Gen mod Sets, could do so with ease.

UPDATE, also there seems to be NO WAY to REMOVE a Highlight at the moment...you can remove the Color, but the icon will stay

[Guest deleted34304850]

i like this idea. you could do similar any time bethesda throw out an update that can disrupt many mods that may require you to upgrade your game.

[Zanderat]

It's an excellent idea.

[Pickysaurus]

I'm not saying this is a bad idea, so please don't take it the wrong way but between profiles, categories, collections and highlights there are already so many ways to "group" mods that another may be superfluous? This is something that could be built as a third party extension though.

[HadToRegister]

I'm not saying this is a bad idea, so please don't take it the wrong way but between profiles, categories, collections and highlights there are already so many ways to "group" mods that another may be superfluous? This is something that could be built as a third party extension though.

 

 

Well, my suggestion is geared more towards 'on the fly" quick setup of sets, WITHIN Vortex without having to leave the interface, without the profile switching, collection making (how do you do that IN Vortex, or do you have to download a collection?), etc, with the ability to click on a mod from each set and all the mods in a set are selected/deselected

 

Basically a quick way to manage sets of mods within Vortex especially for experimenting with Game Versions, like the example I gave, be ause I don't think TW3 version 4.00 is going to run very well on my very old GTX 750Ti, so I was looking for a quick way to have a very easy to see, very visible representation of each set of mods (one set for 1.32 and one set for 4.00) that can be quickly switched between if I need to roll back, or update

 

An extension would work especially if adding what I suggested would require a complete overhaul of Vortex, then doing it through an extension would save work, that's good too.

 

BTW, can you tell me what the COMBINE button does in the little white menu when you select a bunch of mods?

 

OK, just tried the collection feature, however, the feature it seriously lacks is the ability to add mods that aren't installed, to the collection.

 

I easily made a personal collection called "Version 1.32 Mods", however, I'm able to make an EMPTY collection called "Version 4.00 Mods", however I can't add any Next Gen or 4.00 mods to it because they're not installed, which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid, so that defeats the entire purpose of what I'm trying to do.

 

I'm trying to get these "Sets" setup BEFORE I go mucking about with install/uninstalling

 

Categories is an "OK" option if the columns were RESIZABLE instead of Automatically resizing

 

All in All, the reason I suggested the Highlighting is is much much faster to see the different colors and icons at a glance for each "set", than it is to see the difference in

"Game Version 1.32"

vs

"Game Version 4.00"

Text entries, although Category DOES has the advantage of being able to use the Category Filter.

 

OK, it looks like you can't Highlight Mods that aren't installed.

Some operations such as Highlighting, and Naming etc would be nice to be available to mods whether they're installed or not

 

Also, allow changing the font color on the white menu from light orange to BLACK, it's almost impossible to read Light Orange on White.

If that ability already exists on the THEME page, which Text color below would I be changing?

 

Brand-Primary

Brand-Clickable

Link-Color

Brand-Warning

Brand-Secondary