Use the In-Game Community Mods - Cross Platform PA Mod Manager (PAMM) is Obsolete

Should be stickied in the main modding section.

Are you able to remove the shadow threads from the main section?

Should be fixed now ! But you will not be able to see it working (hopefully) until an other update.

Fixed too, will be more tolerante regarding this kind of non-mod folders, just logged as error.

New version available, , what's new :

• you can now change the context client/server inside PAMM
• you can now target PTE or stable stream if PA has been properly detected, but still share the same mod folders, I think I could use some symlink trick later
  
• it only use mods version to detect updates, date is cosmetic only

I hope I didn't break something, specially for OSX users (hi Wondible ) because I made some refactoring on paths discovery. I'll probably need some intel from a Steam user on OSX/Linux too.

Upgrade worked, other than doing a popunder.

I now have an empty PA Install Location, and stable/PTE is disabled.

I don't really use the launch button, so no PA is fine. Does the stream select do anything besides choose which one to launch?

Not detecting your PA installations mean PAMM can't find the stockmods. But I think I found the issue, I was looking for a 'version.txt' file on OSX too instead of a 'version' file.

Oh... have you compensated for the /media change on PTE? version.txt is only file that didn't move into media.

To be more precise:

Stable:

Code:

Resources jlove$ tree -L 1
.
├── PA.icns
├── darwin_MainMenu.nib
├── fonts
├── nomod
├── pa
├── shaders
├── ui
└── version.txt

PTE:

Code:

Resources jlove$ tree -L 2
.
├── media
│  ├── PA.icns
│  ├── fonts
│  ├── nomod
│  ├── pa
│  ├── shaders
│  ├── stockmods
│  └── ui
└── version.txt

Thanks ! I saw your post in the PTE build support thread, and it should works with the stock mods in the media folder, but I guessed wrong about the version file location. I took the Atom Shell darwin package as an example, where there is a 'version' file at the same level as the .app folder, it should now be fixed and look for a 'version.txt' file in the Resources folder. <finger crossed>

Okay, switching stable/PTE controls presence of the stockmods.

when are we getting rid of atom shell?

I need this to be more noob-friendly to replace the current one with this one in the MODs guide I have.

atom shell is already bundled (at least on windows version) with the installer since 0.5.3.
No need to put this "app" in the atom shell default app folder anymore, like it was on first releases.
It simply installs as easily as the "standard" (should I say old / legacy PAMM ?), so how could it be more noob-friendly ?
Mereth has done a great job in this direction already.

it's better but the bat is definitely scary stuff for a noob.

The sad part is the original PAMM installer ask you for unnecessary administrative rights, but it's less scary for noobs than running a .bat This world is fucked up sometimes

Since this PAMM auto-update it-self, I will probably make an installer for the initial install. I didn't want to make one initially because making a 30MiB installer for every (frequent) releases was to much of a hassle.

I know, I put i in the guide :
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/mods-the-general-howto-and-whos-who-thread-about-mods.57013/
hopefully people don't ***** out when they see the black screen window.

Woot, thanks for this "how-to".
But you should uncompress the zip file in your download folder directly, it's just a temporary folder, everything will be packaged into "C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\pamm".
I'm a bit worried (and pissed off) by the "Security warning", damn Microsoft and your Powershell paranoiac default configuration, it should not appears unless your are working from a network folder.

aw drats! thanks for pointing it out! updating...

done!

Thanks !
I lowered, again, the powershell ExecutionPolicy, I hope this will remove this security warning crap.

Are you making a sparse scene_mod_list? PAStats is breaking on me due to a null key.

It should not. I just installed PA Stats and still don't see any specific error. Could you give me more details on how & where the error show up please ?