NOMM Guides on NOMM - Native Open Mod Manager

The NOMM onboarding process

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

NOMM comes with a really simple & intuitive onboarding experience.

It will ask you for basic information like where you want to store downlaods, and where you want to store your mods in staging.

Staging & Downloads folder selection

What is staging?

In modding spheres you will often hear about staging. To explain what that means we need to go through the steps of how mods get installed.

Launcher Presentation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Initial scan & access check

Your first step when you launch the app is the “launcher”. It is where all the library-based logic happens.

Access check

First, the launcher checks if it has access to all your libraries.

If it doesn’t it will display a special screen to ask you to provide access or to ignore and continue anyway.

Access to special directories

If NOMM is lacking access to either the downloads or the staging directories it will not let you ignore the warning and launch the application. This is intentional and was designed to stop the user from potentially launching NOMM in a broken state.

Dashboard Presentation

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The NOMM dashboard is split into three tabs.

The Mods tab

Action Buttons

Let’s start by explaining the handful of buttons top right.

Icon	Description
	Opens the staging folder in your file explorer
	Refreshes metadata with latest information from the mod platform. This will replace all current metadata, including the mod’s name with newer versions if available. This will also check for updates to said mods.
	Launches the game via the game’s platform

The mods tab lists all the mods currently available in the staging folder.