OMOD Extension

[Crawmak]

So, I honestly love Vortex, and I love using it to keep as many mods for as many games as possible in one place. But I can't do that with Oblivion because of the lack of support for OMOD files.

Is there anyone out there with the knowledge to make an OMOD extension? Or some funky OMOD-to-FOMOD converter?

[Pickysaurus]

It's something we'd love for someone in the community to make. OMOD is effectively a dead format at this point and we'd need someone with a good knowledge of it to make the extension.

[AugustaCalidia]

Correct me if wrong, but I seem to remember that Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) could directly repackage an OMOD as a 7-Zip archive. If so, then that would be a possible workaround for OP's problem until someone developed a Vortex OMOD extension.

[Pickysaurus]

If OBMM is open source, that might be useful to anyone who wants to take on this challenge.

[HadToRegister]

A BAIN extension too!!

[Crawmak]

Correct me if wrong, but I seem to remember that Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) could directly repackage an OMOD as a 7-Zip archive. If so, then that would be a possible workaround for OP's problem until someone developed a Vortex OMOD extension.

Problem with that is that, like FOMOD, OMOD tends to have multiple choices built into an installer. It would be a hell of a task to get everything sorted properly to work as a 7-Zip archive, at least for someone like me who has minimal knowledge of the file structure of Oblivion and could probably break 20 things in the process without realizing it.

[Zanderat]

What did was a bit of work. But my last last OB play through had minimal omods.

 

I first installed the omod using OBMM. I then rounded up all the files it installed and put them in a Vortex friendly .7z file. I then made sure to delete those files installed by OBMM. And then I installed my new .7z file with Vortex.