Oblivion Mod Manager

Oblivion Mod Manager, as its name suggests, is a utility for managing oblivion mods. It can just be used as an enhanced version of the data files selector on the oblivion launcher, with sorting and load-order reordering capabilities, but there are a lot more features which can only be used when mods are packed as .omod files. You can easily clean all files belonging to the mod out of your data folder, view the readme without unpacking the mod, e-mail the mod author, visit their website or view detailed information about the file. The main advantage though is that an omod can contain a script which can tell obmm which other mods a mod depends on, which mods it conflicts with, the order in which the esps must load, automatically register new bsa files, make ini or shader package tweaks, etc. My aim was to make it nearly impossible to install the mod incorrectly.

obmm also includes several other non-omod releated utilities which are useful to mod users or makers. These include:

• A BSA creator, for packing data files into BSA archives
• A BSA browser for getting them back out again.
• A BSA patcher and archiveinvalidation.txt generator. (See this thread on the official TES forums for why this is required)
• A conflict/overlap detector, to warn you where two mods both alter the same object
• A save manager, to tell you which plugins a particular save depends on
• A background process killer, to free up some extra memory and CPU cycles for oblivion

There are two versions of obmm available: a self installer or a 7-zip. They are both the same thing once you get them installed, but the installer automates a lot of stuff, like checking for the correct version of .NET, installing obmm in the correct directory, creating shortcuts, registering the omod file type so you can install new mods just by double clicking on them and so on. If you download the 7-zip, it needs to be extracted to oblivion's base directory.

You can read the help file by clicking help on the data files page. If you want to read it before installing, it's 'obmm\obmm.chm' in the 7-zip file, or an online version can be accessed from the navigation bar on the left.

This application requires .NET 2.0. If you aren't sure if you have it, please download the installer which will check automatically and offer to download it for you if required.

Finally, a few more screenshots of some more of obmm's menu screens: the omod info page, the BSA browser, the old conflict detector and the omod creator.