So, hi, i'm a noob- but i'm not sure if OpenMod Manager is for me in DCS?
Just downloaded it- My folder structure is pretty standard, my mods are in
C:\Users\USER\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\Aircraft
in that Aircraft directory are 2 folders, at the time of this post The F 22 mod and the F15EX folders - each of which has the list of aircraft stuff like cockpit ,effects, Liveries, etc
Anyway, it works- but I know i might want to add and remove aircraft in the future-
I recently grabbed the Su-30_EFM_V2.7.3b mod - it's a zip file as they like to come , inside that, the first folder is a folder with the aircraft name(Su-30etc) , then inside THAT one is the aircraft files
- - and figured, why not try OpenModManager to install it- and get used to a Mod Manager for the first time
So i installed OMM, and got immediately confused -
I set Target Directory Path as C:\Users\USER\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\Aircraft , for aircraft mods
in open mod manager
Then, in the OMM window for local library - is where things ...are weird.
I had downloaded that Su 30 to my normal downloads folder so in OMM i hit Add mods to library , navigate to it, download it. It adds the zip to the location i'd set for it (which is not important i think, but it's set at C:\Users\USER\Saved Games\Open Mod Manager\DCS Open Beta\Aircraft\Library\Su-30_EFM_V2.7.3b )
Anyway, the zip appears in the local library - so I then double click to install
-And of course, this messes up the C:\Users\USER\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\Aircraft folder as it now not only has the F 22 and F 15EX folders, but all the SU 30 files, suck as Bin, Cockpit, Config, etc in that same folder- that's no good! I was hoping it'd just unzip the zip and put the SU 30 Folder in with the other aircraft folders, not go into that and put all the aircraft files there
...I undo that (thankfully easy, just uninstall in open mod manager), then go to where that zip file actually is, i unzip it manually myself, now it's just a folder named SU-30 in the local library(alongside the zip with the same name but that's not important anymore)
i Doubleclick SU30 EFM folder to install- it does the SAME THING, lol , it goes one level deeper and puts all the aircraft files alongside the F22 and F15EX aircraft folders in C:\Users\USER\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\Aircraft
-What am i doing wrong? Is there a easy way to get it to just copy the Aircraft's named folder from a mod there along the others, then inside that put the aircraft data files like DCS requires? Or is this not how one's supposed to use OMM?
Note: I am relatively new to DCS modding, i'll admit- but i was happy, i did get the F22 and F15EX mods to work-So i gotta get this manager to try to line up the folders correctly??