openmmm's Introduction

openMMM

openMorrowind Mod Manager. A cli tool for linux to manage mods for openMW

Installing

Copy openmmm.py to your path

sudo cp openmmm.py /usr/bin

Make a folder name MWmods

mkdir ~/MWmods

Usage

cd to where you uncompressed mod folders are stored

cd /some/path

Run openmmm.py with the -a flag and give it the path to the mod you want to install

openmmm.py -a yourModFolder

This will copy the mod folder to ~/MWmods/ and add the needed data="PathToYourMod" in ~/.config/openmw/openmw.cfg. It will also make a backup of the config file in ~/.config/openmw/

To list all installed mods run openmmm with the -l flag

openmmm.py -l

Start openMW by running

openmw-launcher

Your mods should now appear in the data tab of the launcher (if esp/esm files) or should show up in game (if textures)

Notes

Make sure the structure of the mod folder is correct. Some mod archives contain a single 'Data Files' directory and some additional files, others put everything into where they are unpacked, still others put everything which belongs to the mod into a specially named folder and meta files (like readmes) into the folder where the mod is unpacked. You need to normalize this:

Put all ESPs into the toplevel of the folder in which you want to put the mod. Put all resource folders into the toplevel of your mod folder. The relevant folders are 'BookArt', 'Fonts', 'Icons', 'Meshes', 'Music', 'Sound', 'Splash', 'Textures' and 'Video'. Not every mod contains all of these folders (and actually most mods don't contain most or even any of them), but if they belong to the mod, they must be in its toplevel.

From the openMW wiki
Make sure the openmw-launcher is not running