cjgarner Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Hello So I decided to go back and play Fallout 4 with all the DLC stuff (I only played the base game back when it came out). I have used NMM a lot in Skyrim and Skyrim SE.I pushed 588 mods and learned a good bit of using the CK and merging files etc. So I started moding Fallout 4 this time. I figured well this would be a good time to figure vortex out. At first I thought it looks good then wasn't sure but it has grown on me now. Had to work out a few issues like bodyslide. It is just better to manually install that and same for any kind of slide or preset files. They do not end up in the bodyslide folder and are not seen by bodyslide if not in its correct folder. All in all once I figured how it uses the files it was easy to fix any issues I was having with it. I'm at 80 plugins and a bunch of texture, mesh mods. Everything seems like it is working good and stable. There are a few issues I have but nothing that probably will not be change at a later date or added later. I know there is a states tab, mod search bar, version tab, category tab and an endorsed tab. But as I start adding a lot of mods to the list the one thing I miss a lot from NMM is the ability to make my own group with my own name. For me I like to have that line that goes across and separate things because it make it easier to find mods that you have for a set purpose (changing the mods name does help). Let say mods I have installed for companions cloths, armor or crafting mods. This stuff ends up all over and using the category tab doesn't really help that much(Since frameworks or other dependency's or what ever they may be will all be different category's) . Using the search bar only would help if the mod author uses a real name for the mod that you would remember not like ALL IN ONE or some other abstract name. Renaming mods to force them into a group works but well renaming stuff gets messy. On top of this at least for me I will forget I even installed some mods specially if it was something small but was a dependency for a bigger mod and it has an abstract name lol. All in all the more I use Vortex the more I like it and it is working for me. I haven't had to many issues with Loot and manually setting load orders with the dependencies drag string thing for fallout 4. At moment it has been fairly easy since it has manly just been this mod goes before this one etc and so on but I haven't really had the issue yet say I want this texture and not that one or that one and not this one and so on like in Skyrim. I am not sure how that works or will work with Vortex. For that I did like the way NMM would ask for each conflict and what you wanted to do for each vs this mod goes here or there. Anyways thank you for the work this far on Vortex I am liking it and just going with it as it goes with no idea what you are going to do to it (Moding is its own game) LoL! CJG PS sorry if there is a way to do some of the things I said and just haven't figured them out yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kongolan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Well Vortex certainly needs a way to have categories and names fetched from Nexus or at least renaming the Archive like the esp which is inside, so we get a better overview on what which mod is. I have the same issue, there is no good overview and if you have like 4 patches for some mods then you miss more than just the categories and better naming, you need some highlighting on which mods connect to each other in some way. That is literally the only draw back Vortex currently has, i don't run into any other problems. The only thing i disagree with is so far the need of Separators between the mods, because if the categories sorting works and can select multiple categories or search for part of the categories like "magic" then you are fine. Beside of that coding a separator isn't that hard anyways since it's just a dummy visual line, but it Vortex could get a 2nd view for all the mods which is the same like NMMs tree structure, that shouldn't be that hard either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBPappy Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 I have used several mod managers since starting this game and as far as I'm concerned, THIS IS the best hands-down. I love the way Tannin42 has set it up and my hat is off to all on his team. Wish I had stayed in programming when I was in college but now at age 60, I don't think old dogs can learn THESE TRICKS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameisenfutter Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Well Vortex certainly needs a way to have categories and names fetched from Nexus or at least renaming the Archive like the esp which is inside, so we get a better overview on what which mod is. I just imported my NMM mod list to vortex and, well, it's a mess. So there is literally no way to get mod metadata right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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