Hosting Squadron Mods for OVGME or OMM

[CallsignPunch]

Hey guys, does anyone have a tutorial or quick steps on how to host mods?  Working on a squadron and have no idea how to host the mod repository so people can get them with say OVGME or maybe OMM.  Site is currently going to be hosted on Squarespace if that matters.

 

Thanks in advance for the info!

[MAXsenna]

Hey guys, does anyone have a tutorial or quick steps on how to host mods?  Working on a squadron and have no idea how to host the mod repository so people can get them with say OVGME or maybe OMM.  Site is currently going to be hosted on Squarespace if that matters.
 
Thanks in advance for the info!

Try the OMM forum. There are some post about it, and Sendenion is quite helpful.

Cheers!

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[Wrench]

It's not too hard with OvGME, I've been doing it for a few years now.

You have to create an xml file with hyperlinks to the mods, and have your guys add that xml to the "mods/repositories" in OvGME.

 

Some mods are not redistributable, so keep that in mind.

 

At any rate, here is a demo chunk from mine:

<mod_list>

<mod name= "demoMod" version="1.0.0" url="http://fightinstingrays.com/demoMod.zip"/>

</mod_list>

 

If you're not aware, OvGME uses a particular setup for its zip files, you can generate them through OvGME GUI, but I found a hackaround so I don't do it that way any more.

 

A few gotchas:

hosted mod names cannot contain spaces

The mod name must match the .zip file name

hosted mods must be in OvGME format, meaning the folder structure and version info exists (Just use the OvGME GUI to make zip files)

If you update a mod, you must increase it's version number and update the xml

 

I think those are the big ones.

 

Hope that helps.