No Man's Sky Mod Deployment

[Mazing]

Vortex deploys No Man's Sky mods incorrectly which results in the game not loading them.

First it creates a folder in the games mods directory with the same name as the mod. It then extracts the entire contents of the mod into the created folder.
What should happen is only the .pak files should be extracted into the mods folder.

Expected Folder Hierarchy:-
MODS/modname.pak

Actual Folder Hierarchy:-
MODS/MODNAME/modname.pak

[SirSalami]

When deploying a mod, Vortex moves files associated with the mod to No Mans Sky's /gamedata/pcbanks/mods/ directory, which is mimicking standard practices for manual mod installation.

 

The symptoms you describe make me think that perhaps you misconfigured Vortex, which may be using your /gamedata/pcbanks/mods/ directory as a storage repository for downloaded mod archives.

 

With No Man's Sky as Vortex's active game, check your settings. There, under the mods tab, ensure that the directory you see there is not your /gamedata/pcbanks/mods/ folder. Set it to another (preferably new) folder, so that Vortex can store mod files there to be deployed to the game when enabled.

[Mazing]

Yes it was using /gamedata/pcbanks/mods/ directory. I changed it to C:\Vortex Mods\NMS and everything is working fine.

 

My suggestion is to change the wording used on the settings mods tab from "Install Path (No Mans Sky)" to something like "Mod Storage Location (No Mans Sky)"

[SirSalami]

Fair enough. Thanks for the suggestion and glad it worked out! :thumbsup: