Indio21 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 (edited) Hello, I am in the process of building my LO. As I move forward adding more and more mods I have to keep reinstalling mods to get the fomods to show to find patches required for later added mods. Of course now, after so many mods, I cannot remember which mods have fomods to show the options, so I have to do them all. My question is there a tool that will re-launch mods with fomods in a LO OR does anyone know of a better way of doing it? Thanks for reading Edited February 7 by Indio21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csbx Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Good question--I've definitely run into that problem. A couple of things to help: 1) When you run LOOT it generally gives you tips about patches it sees are available yet not used--doesn't catch all of them, but.. 2) If you install a mod with a bunch of patch options, maybe just make a note of that in the notes section in mod organizer--if added to the right area you can scan through all your mods and look at that notes column to track down those you've marked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorrp10 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Only thing I can suggest (assuming using Vortex, but likely something similar exists for MO2) In Downloads section, click 'Open Folder' which should open the downloads folder. You will need 7Zip installed. Double-click each file to open. Sometimes you also need to go into its root directory. Looking at each archive structure, it is obvious which have fomod. You still have to click each file, but it should be a lot faster than reinstalling each of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anjenthedog Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Also, (ie in addition to what Scorrp said) you might benefit from adding a custom note to your mod manager entry for each mod you already know uses one (ex: body types), as well as others, as you discover them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indio21 Posted February 9 Author Share Posted February 9 On 2/7/2024 at 7:24 PM, csbx said: Good question--I've definitely run into that problem. A couple of things to help: 1) When you run LOOT it generally gives you tips about patches it sees are available yet not used--doesn't catch all of them, but.. 2) If you install a mod with a bunch of patch options, maybe just make a note of that in the notes section in mod organizer--if added to the right area you can scan through all your mods and look at that notes column to track down those you've marked. On 2/7/2024 at 8:39 PM, scorrp10 said: Only thing I can suggest (assuming using Vortex, but likely something similar exists for MO2) In Downloads section, click 'Open Folder' which should open the downloads folder. You will need 7Zip installed. Double-click each file to open. Sometimes you also need to go into its root directory. Looking at each archive structure, it is obvious which have fomod. You still have to click each file, but it should be a lot faster than reinstalling each of them. 11 hours ago, anjenthedog said: Also, (ie in addition to what Scorrp said) you might benefit from adding a custom note to your mod manager entry for each mod you already know uses one (ex: body types), as well as others, as you discover them. Great, thank you everyone!!! Good tips to know. I am using Vortex to clarify. I am not sure I can make notes in it but I will investigate it. Hopefully, I can come up with a better routine as I am breaking 400 plugins on this build and still going strong. It sure would be nice if someone built a tool to do that. One that can read the files and just auto launch the ones with fomods. I know some are just simple fomods so I wouldn't expect it to be intellegent. But, if one could just click a button to launch it and one by one the fomods launched for us to make choices, it would be soooo helpful I'd think. Be faster than tracking down which mods do have patches available. I'll hope a vortex builder/contributor finds this and adds the tool to it I thought for sure someone would have built one by now. Especially these modders with thousands of mods. Add one and how do you know which other fomods have patches. I am still hopeful one exists, thank you everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anjenthedog Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Vortex provides a note (a "textarea") in the right panel popup for a mod. double click an entry to open the right hand panel. scroll down. The mod name column can also be edited for in-your-face notices. (ex: I marked several mods as "do not update!" by appending that statement to their mod names) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indio21 Posted February 9 Author Share Posted February 9 1 hour ago, anjenthedog said: Vortex provides a note (a "textarea") in the right panel popup for a mod. double click an entry to open the right hand panel. scroll down. The mod name column can also be edited for in-your-face notices. (ex: I marked several mods as "do not update!" by appending that statement to their mod names) Ahh, nice! That's a way I can get a notice about a fomod in my face. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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