sharing mod list/mod order?

[jtjoo]

Check c:\USERFOLDER\Local\Skyrim Special Edition\Plugins.txt

[pzaw]

Is there a way to share the current list of installed mods and their load order? I'd like to be able to share with mod authors, when asking for help, and also to show my mod list to people, to compare mods and such.

 

Oh oh oh I know this one. I can at last help someone else.

Repayment for all the time that I needed help.

 

I don't know about load order since loot and Vortex does a beautiful job of doing that so I don't really see why

anyone would want to keep the load order. A few years ago all mod discussions were about load order and now I don't even

think about it. The secret is to load one mod at a time and resolve one conflict at a time.

 

I digress, you can get a list of all your mods by simply going to the folder

where Vortex stages your mods.

 

Ie, where you have specified the directory in Vortex Settings under MODS tab.

Than you simply launch the cmd console inside the directory.

In the cmd console type: dir>>mymodlist.txt

 

This will run the directory listing command but will not show anything of the list on screen.

Instead it will save the directory list in the file specified. In this example it will save it in mymodlist.txt

then you may do whatever or save it so if you mess things up you have a backup list of the last known good mod list.

 

I use this to backup my mod list (when I remember to do it) so that If my computer crashed or anything

happened to my mods I know exactly what mods I need to reload.

 

It can be done with a batch file to automate the preocess quite easily.

 

Hope this helps.

 

I use Explorer++ to manage my directory/folder/files

[Vyxenne]

I don't know of a way to get the load order as a text output from within vortex but the load order is stored as a text file at /users/<username>/AppData/Local/Skyrim Special Edition/loadorder.txt or some variation depending on which game you're interested in. There really needs to be a button that displays your plugin load order as a text file though from within Vortex. That's usually one of the first things people ask for if you ask for help on something and currently there's just no intuitive way to get it in Vortex.

You are conflating "load order" and "mod list." They are two distinctly different things. The OP of this thread, and many of us who arrived here via Google search for "Vortex mod list text" or similar searches, need to generate a text copy of our MOD LIST. Many of my mods do not have plugins. That's why a load order list (of plugins) is not sufficient.

 

Besides, I don't need Vortex to generate a plugins list ("load order") - I can already easily generate a load order list (text copied to clipboard) from LOOT, or (for Skyrim/SSE) copy plugins.txt or loadorder.txt if all I want is my plugin load order.

[Vyxenne]

 

Is there a way to share the current list of installed mods and their load order? I'd like to be able to share with mod authors, when asking for help, and also to show my mod list to people, to compare mods and such.

 

Oh oh oh I know this one. I can at last help someone else.

Repayment for all the time that I needed help.

 

I don't know about load order since loot and Vortex does a beautiful job of doing that so I don't really see why

anyone would want to keep the load order. A few years ago all mod discussions were about load order and now I don't even

think about it. The secret is to load one mod at a time and resolve one conflict at a time.

 

I digress, you can get a list of all your mods by simply going to the folder

where Vortex stages your mods.

 

Ie, where you have specified the directory in Vortex Settings under MODS tab.

Than you simply launch the cmd console inside the directory.

In the cmd console type: dir>>mymodlist.txt

 

This will run the directory listing command but will not show anything of the list on screen.

Instead it will save the directory list in the file specified. In this example it will save it in mymodlist.txt

then you may do whatever or save it so if you mess things up you have a backup list of the last known good mod list.

 

I use this to backup my mod list (when I remember to do it) so that If my computer crashed or anything

happened to my mods I know exactly what mods I need to reload.

 

It can be done with a batch file to automate the preocess quite easily.

 

Hope this helps.

 

I use Explorer++ to manage my directory/folder/files

 

The only problem with this method is that the dir command can only be made to sort by file name (alpha) or date (file creation/modification date) and useless sort orders like file size and file type, which is basically just parroting the file extension, i.e. "7Z file" and/or "rar file." None of those sort orders reflects load order (for those mods that have plugins), installation dates or conflict winners. This is why we are asking for the functionality in Vortex, the only place where all of the information we need resides...

 

Well, all the information except for mod installation dates. Vortex has that info but refuses to display it, preferring instead to tell us ambiguous stuff like "6 months ago" and so forth.

[rmm200]

Sticking this here too:

 

Playing around with this....

Navigate to the mods staging folder for the game of interest.

Open a cmd window. (in my case it is Shift RMB and open Powershell. Then cmd.)

Enter "dir . /b > mods.txt"

This will give you a text file of mod names. No extraneous information.

It should import directly into a spreadsheet.

When done, remove that file you created mods.txt. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

[aquilegia]

Dir will give you a list of mods.

 

However, this list includes disabled mods.

 

It should be possible to get vortex to give you its list of enabled mods in its current installation order (and this is not specific to skyrim, by the way...)

[outsidefactor]

This seems... insane. How can it be so hard can it be to export a list of currently active mods and maybe their Nexus URLs?

 

Yes, modding is currently a deeply personal experience, and currently the selection of mods is based on a desire to deeply tailor your experience, but this only applies to a portion of the gaming public. Some people just want to follow a guide, and to that end it seems mad to me that there is no curation system built into either Mods Nexus or Vortex.

 

I have so many people that would love to just import my mod list (or someone else's) and customised sorting rules to use as a starting point.

 

I can even see it as a potential revenue stream for the modding community. There are plenty of people unwilling to contribute to 20 or 30 mods, but if there was a curation system on the Nexus then the site could divide donations between the curator and the mod authors in his list. Curators earn their money by testing mods together and developing custom rules when required. You could even wrap ENB presets into the mix. Curators would have to update their mod lists over time as new versions of subordinate mods (and game EXEs too) are released.

 

This would quickly result in the large majority of the community moving to one of a set of known good mod lists. It would open up modding to a whole new section of the gaming public, and there would finally be a set of people incentivised to really dig into mod compatibility issues and provide advocacy for the end users collectively.

Edited August 6, 2019 by outsidefactor

[Rattledagger]

This seems... insane. How can it be so hard can it be to export a list of currently active mods and maybe their Nexus URLs?

 

 

While such functionality is planned for the future, where one user can upload their full mod-list to Nexus and anyone else with a Nexus Premium account can download this list and have Vortex automatically download and install all mods, where's been a ton of Vortex bugs so the "interesting" features has been delayed for later.

 

Now after v1 has been released, hopefully it won't be too long until the first part is added, users being allowed to export their own mod-list and importing the mod-list later on.

[HadToRegister]

Hey, quick question: Is this f***ing for real? How does THE NEWEST mod manager on the block not have literally the most basic possible feature? How am I supposed to ask for help on my load order? This is absolutely moronic.

 

 

Aggressive much?

 

Because it's STILL in development.

 

If it bugs you that much, why don't you hop on GitHub and submit the code you've written for Exporting the Mod List.

 

 

[PhaseVerocity]

I wouldn't mind an export function for mods that ask if you have this and this and this and this and this. It would make it so much easier to look at the list and know if you have it installed or not.