UMMS - Create your OMOD in a few minutes!

[Fenolftalein]

UMMS 1.0.9

Makes ModMaking easier since 15 july 2009

 

 

What's problem of the most of mods?

 

Many-many optional files and long readme.txt, like

Copy files from "Data files" folder to "Oblivion\Data\textures". If you want the game to be easier, copy "easy.esp", or else... blahblahblah... If it's still doesn't work, maybe you have old version of OBSE.

 

Users don't like this boring copy-paste-delete work, plus user can make something wrong.

 

Timeslip created a very good tool - Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM), it allows you to check OBSE version, create user-friendly Select dialogs and many other things like check-uncheck ESPs and check dependencies. Also, you can deactivate the whole OMOD if you don't need it.

 

If your mod contains only one ESP and several data files, you can create OMOD without any script, OBMM will use it like and archive.

 

Still don't get advantages of OMOD?

Take a look at HGEC Body or All Natural mods.

 

OMODs make us happy, happy, happy....

 

Well, it's easy (but takes a long time) to create good OMOD with previews and descriptions if you know OBMM script language, or any other script language, like Lua or Python.

UMMS is universal script for OBMM. You can use it for every mod without changing.

 

So...

• Want to make some ESPs optional?
  
• Want to add possibility to select from different texture packs (like in AWLS mod)?
  
• Want to pack many small mods in one OMOD?
  
• Want to add descriptions and previews to all mods in a package?
  
• Want to upgrade your mod without changing script?
  

It's easy with UMMS! All you need is OBMM and any file manager (Explorer or Total Commander).

Download latest version here. It contains many tests that will help you understand how it works.

Don't forget to use BOSS and Archive Invalidation tool after inastalling new plugins.

 

 

If someone is interested in:

OBMM has very powerful functions to organize and install plugins and data. But at the same time, it works very strange. Here's a list of things that I encountered:

- GetDataFiles and GetPlugins functions get files even from subfolders. That's weird.

- CopyDataFolder and CopyPluginsFolder aren't safe

- Previews aren't working in simulation (well, i understand why)

 

 

So, using OBMM script isn't good idea, but OBMM has support of IronPython language!

It's very powerful, has many useful build-in functions and can use unsafe OBMM functions in safe mode.

 

> Download <

And... thanks for reading. Sorry for bad english.