Use the In-Game Community Mods - Original PA Mod Manager (PAMM) is Obsolete

Updating to the latest version and now its complaining it can;t find the PA exe.
B:\planAn\PA is where my PA.exe is located but when i enter B:\planAn\PA\PA.exe is says it can't find it.

*edit* funny now it suddenly works
But it does not see my previous installed mods .

Nevermind looks like it uninstalled all mods

It isn't intelligent (yet) about detecting steam. It literally just checks a default location ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Planetary Annihilation\PA.exe") to see if it's there, if not it will prompt.

Uber changed the modding system a few builds ago, moving the mods to a completely new location; therefore it appears as no mods are installed. Just need to re-install them from the online mods list


Upcoming features being worked on:

• PAMM properly checks to see if it has a network connection
• Localisation support
• Displays number of likes from the forum post for mods
• Sort online mods list by Likes
• PAMM now remembers last filter/sort settings
• Settings screen
  • Set Default tab when PAMM is opened
  • Set log to verbose/debug modes
• Log

Credit to @DeathByDenim for several of these ideas

@raevn what do you think of this ? https://forums.uberent.com/threads/question-will-we-be-able-to-play-beta-builds.55961/

alpha channel mods hmmm

getting the access denied message (yes/no) thing, the file is unblocked, not sure how to allow it in IE (sure its IE10 that is blocking it)

Can I use a wildcard in modinfo.json for loading files in a scene? I have a /themes folder and I don't want to make people modify modinfo.json every time they add a new theme.

Themes? What is a theme supposed to be?
Generally the one way I know to prevent people from having to update anything is to build a mod that has a single global js file that looks like this:
http://www.nanodesu.info/stuff/pa/mods/live/pastats/pa_stats_loader.js

I mean I want to automatically load every is file in a folder. It isn't really necessary, but it simplifies the process of adding a new theme just a little.

Each theme attaches itself to my mod object as a property then it loads. The mod object can then send the theme list to the settings manager for the drop-down option.

If my mod could automatically attach theme files, they could be just Jason files instead of JavaScript. They wouldn't need to run any code themselves. My goal is to remove as much logic as possible from the theme files.

Make the player enter the name of the file of the json definition in the settings.

I would prefer to leave it as a drop-down for fast switching of themes. I can leave it the way it is, but it means my theme definitions have to be JavaScript and each theme needs to be in modinfo. A wildcard in PAMM's modinfo.Jason would let me load every JavaScript file in that folder automatically. A JavaScript function to read all the jsons in a folder would probably be ideal. I just don't like hard coding these file names in there.

It's not a big deal though. I'm mostly just being OCD and a perfectionist.

Make the player write the name of the file and add that name to the combox thing from that point onwards?
Or have an online webservice that serves a list of themes. Allow people to upload themes, etc...
Perfectionism can go a long way.
Actually using github as a host for that kind of thing probably would not even be that hard.

That's not needed.
You can just load json's from your directory.
I do it in hotbuild2 to load the defaults.

You can list all files in a direction using javascript?
Cool

EDIT:
Now I am unhappy. It's impossible after all.

You have the defaults hard-coded in, and then you use getJSON. What I basically want is to be able to create a new json in your defaults folder with any name I want and then have the javascript still be able to load it. For security reasons, Javascript doesn't ever get that kind of filesystem access as far as I know. My workaround is to include each file in modinfo.json and then have a line of javascript at the top that attaches the file's contents to an existing object.

I'm comfortable with leaving it as it is, but I was looking for a way to make it so that users could just drop a new file into the folder and run it. Right now they need to edit modinfo.json to get it to show up.

Ah yes didn't see you wanted to list from a folder that's indeed not possible with javascript.
Maybe uber will make some api functions we can use to read /write files from our own mod folder.

I'm ok with using javascript files to define the themes though. Being able to use a wildcard in modinfo.json would let me do "coui://ui/mods/cPlanetNameThemes/themes/*.js" instead of list each one separately.

Is the host down? I'm unable to download the file.

It's working fine for me, is anyone else having an issue?

Worked for me. I didn't try installing though. Did you mean the installer was broken?

Does anybody know what this error is? (error 800a003e)

Been looking around. Don't know what the solution is but some of the symptoms are unable to launch the game from the mod manager. Have to refresh to see anything. Can download and install mods. Any help would be appreciated.

Downloads fine for me.

800a003e is "input past end of file". Given the symptoms, I'm thinking it's something to do with the PAMM settings file, and the detection of where PA is installed.

Try deleting pamm.json from C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\pamm_cache\, and see if that corrects the issue. If it doesn't, where do you currently have PA installed?