rjw RimJobMod Launcher and Mod Installer/Updater

[Soviet_Soda]

This is Launcher that allows you to download, update and track the version of mods.

 

IT IS BETA, EXPERIMENTAL, IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WRITE IN THIS TOPIC

I was doing and checking app on win10

 

Download: https://github.com/SovietSoda/RJW_Launcher

There are two app variants, with console (?for debug?) and without, If you have problem, pls, try console version and try to take screenshot of latest log (that will help me) (unfortunatelly i don't have smth better for you now)

Launcher_Data folder is important for the app work

 

Where to put: to game folder, where the mods folder is.

 

This app works with xml file, where is modlist with mod links to git. This app reads these links, and tryes to find them in your mods game folder.

IMPORTANT!

1) The name of mod folder have to be the same as in the link. Example:

           mod link in modlist file is https://github.com/SovietSoda/RJW_Launcher, so the name to make it findable for programm have to be RJW_Launcher

2) Programsm maximum is 35 mods. If there will be more, the programm will crash.

3) This programm can download mod like a human, using web. BUT IT CAN TAKE TOO MUCH TIME. So, I recommend you to download Git from https://git-scm.com/downloads, and turn tag. <gitcheck> in Launcher_Data to the value True (case of letter "T" is important)

4) If you have problems with the game start button, check tag <name_of_game_exe> in Launcher_Data, maybe your Rimworld.exe has another name.

5) HugsLib and ModManager mods have problems with my app. And it is okey that AlienRaces don't have version.

6)Getting Data for app starting from GitGud.io takes much more time than from  GitHub and GitTab, there is a delay between requests. So, you can make start faster just mixing mod's resources in modlist.

7) If you are mod author and you want to add your link to default modlist, write to me.

 

In theory, you can add any mods from the Git to this launcher, and everything should work. But some problems are quite possible.

 

To update mods keep this algorithm:

1)Close the game

2)Update mods

3)Open game