I've created an extension to turn Vortex into a Minion replacement!

Garethp

This is for the PC players out there who use Minion but are keen to try something newer. If you're sick of Minion and have either used Vortex (or don't mind learning how to use it), you should check out my ESO UI Integration Extension. It integrates ESO UI into Vortex so you can download addons from ESO UI through Vortex directly as well as keep them up to date.

Why should you use Vortex over Minion? Other than Minion being an ageing manager that's not in active development, Minion doesn't install the dependencies of a Mod for you when you install it. With my extension, when you install a Mod it'll look for the libraries that the mod says it requires and installs them automatically for you. While it's not perfect (some mods don't declare their dependencies), it is much better just clicking install for Auto Research and getting it's requirements downloaded automatically for you. On top of that, if a mod has **new** dependencies when you update it, those new dependencies will download automatically for you!

The extension is brand new and has been the work of the last four or five nights of programming, so if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions on how to make things more user friendly, please let me know so I can improve it!

One more thing: The extension has a feature to let you do one-click installs of mods from ESO UI, just like for mods on Nexus. In the next few days I'll be making a small browser extension to add that link but if you have Tampermonkey installed and want to try it out in advance, here's a small Tampermonkey script to add that button!

MorninStar

Not sure if you can but, did you try posting this in https://www.esoui.com/addons.php ? Maybe if some of the more experienced modders can check this out.

Elsonso

Ooh. Nice.

WiseSky

Blessings of the 9 be upon you.

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic.

Thank you for your understanding.

Lexcro

Hey I've downloaded Skyshards and Lorebooks but the dependencies didn't download. Did I miss a step?

Baertram

Just as an information:
We Addon devs will not support that Vortex manager nor any extensions. If you get errors due to non properly installed addons and/or libraries it's your own responsibility to fix it please and espeically your own resp. to tell the devs you did not install properly manually via esoui.com or via Minion -> To save time

I understand that Minion 3 is missing features and is aging. But it is not "not in active development", there is a newer version on the way so just wait for it please instead of trying to create other addon managers that were clearly commnuciated to be not supported (neither by esoui.com staff, website, databases, nor by the addon devs).

Thanks for your understanding.

Technical question to @Garethp
I expect your extension to download the files via www.esoui.com URL usage of the addon id, parsing the websites description text for the needed dependencies?
Or how do you get the dependency information etc.?

If you are using any other way please contact Dolby from esoui.com and ask if that is okay to do so!

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

We have gone ahead and closed this thread down since it is rather old. Please keep in mind that sometimes it is better to create a new topic, instead of replying in one that was posted a while ago.

Thanks for your understanding.