About This File

Cleans up the Mod Settings screen when you're using a pile of U666 mods.

Author: usagitriplesix

U666 Mod Settings Organizer

For X-Change Life 0.25.9

If you use several of my mods, the XCL Mod Settings screen can get crowded pretty quickly.

U666 Mod Settings Organizer is a small UI-only mod that groups related settings pages together into more useful categories.

It does not change the settings themselves, add gameplay mechanics, or require you to install any particular U666 mod.

It just makes the settings screen easier to navigate.

What It Does

Normally, every mod that supplies a mod_options page can appear as its own entry in Mod Settings.

The Organizer collects supported settings pages into larger families such as:

Spike Fun
Drugs & Effects
Bar Girl Experience
Work & Office
Bruce Experience
Alexia Life Expansion
Change Contagion
Character, Interests & Appearance
Gameplay Tweaks
Emporium & Private Practice

There is also support for a few additional compatibility groups used in larger mod setups.

Only settings pages that actually exist in your installation are shown.

So if you install the Organizer without, for example, Bruce Expansion or Change Contagion, it will simply ignore those entries rather than creating empty tabs.

What It Does NOT Do

The Organizer does not:

change any gameplay variables;
alter another mod's default settings;
add settings that the original mod doesn't provide;
require every supported mod to be installed;
make incompatible mods compatible;
affect saves or game progression.

Removing the Organizer does not remove or reset the settings belonging to your other mods.

Those settings are still owned by the individual mods.

Why Use It?

This is primarily a convenience mod for players using several parts of the U666 collection.

For example, a Spike Fun-heavy installation may have settings contributed by:

Spike Fun itself;
Drink Spike Redux;
optional Spike Fun modules;
HGH-related systems;
other Spike Fun integrations.

Instead of scattering those pages throughout Mod Settings, the Organizer can present them together under the appropriate category.

The same applies to larger setups involving the Bar Girl Experience, DynaPill workplace mods, Change Contagion, Bruce content, and other U666 systems.

Compatibility

The Organizer is designed to safely ignore supported settings passages that are not installed.

It also includes a small amount of compatibility support for older or external settings pages that have appeared in my larger playtest setups.

Those compatibility entries do not install those mods or create settings for them; they are only used if the corresponding settings page already exists.

Developer and test-only controls are intentionally kept separate from the normal player-facing settings groups.