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ALazyWizard for the original Starsector Vortex extension.
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Changelogs
Version 1.3.0
Adds "Check for Updates" support for all mods that have support for Version Checker (including mods that are not on Nexus Mods).
Mods with an update can click the button to be brought to the Starsector Forum page (if the thread id is provided by the mod).
Clearer error message if a mod is not packaged properly (eg Steelclads).
Version 1.2.2
More relaxed json parsing, allowing for all known mod versions to be read without errors.
Version 1.2.1
Fixes a Vortex soft crash when a mod has a version that is missing "major", "minor", and/or "patch" in the new 0.95a version schema
Version 1.2.0
Support for 1.95a. Add menu option to open a mod on the forums
Version 1.1.0
Update by Wisp to add support for mod_info.json
Version 1.0.0
Initial release by ALazyWizard
--- NOTE: I no longer update this extension, although it should still work fine (as of 0.96a). I've created my own mod manager called SMOL (google it, probably against the rules to advertise it here) that has a number of tools specifically for Starsector. --- Includes support for mod version and author(s) for mods installed from file, rather than from Nexus Mods.
This extension will read mod_info.json, stripping out comments that use the '#' sign, and extract the mod version and mod author(s) from the file, allowing Vortex to display this useful information, which is normally limited only to mods that are downloaded from Nexus Mods.
Check for Updates will show updates for mods that have Version Checker support by providing a button to open the mod's forum page.
The displayed mod name will be unchanged (if downloaded from Nexus Mods) or the name of the mod's archive (if installed manually). This is due to some mod authors releasing multiple iterations of a mod with the same version, with the only difference being in the filename. For example, "ModName-3.0.0-beta-1.zip" and "ModName-3.0.0-beta-2.zip" often both have a version of 3.0.0. Since the beta number is important information, it should not be replaced by the name in the mod_info.json file, which may simply be "Mod Name".