Redesign of mods tab

[justiamtgm 23]

Here is my QoL idea to make an "Installed Mods" category more useful, than it's now. I'm attached some picture examples of all of my ideas. Red numbers are need to relate information in the text to a specific part of the picture. 

1. Load mods logos for the left side instead of placeholder. To indicate state of mod (loaded / not loaded), green or red highlight can be used on mod's name. This is will be more useful utilization of ui space for each mod, and will help with searching of exact mod. For now, it's can be hard to find exact mod in all this bunch without pictures. 

2. Pin favorite mods, so they're at the top of the list. On my example, "pin" is shown as yellow star. This is gonna be useful to get faster way to loved mods.

3. Detailed information box about mod. Modders are point out many information about mods, what is using only for Steam Workshop dropping. I suggesting to add a specified mod info box for every modification. This menu can be called by a new button on the right side of mod button. In this new box, useful information can be found here from mod.txt file, as Logo of the mod, Name, Version, Size and Steam Tags. All this information can be useful to get fast point of the mod's content without going into Steam Workshop. All this info is just idle in the mod.txt, and I think it will be useful to use these details in-game. 

4. Link to the Steam Workshop. If you want more information, you can go to Steam Workshop using this button. 

5. Direct link to the mod files. Finding a path to the mod's files, loaded from Steam Workshop is awkward. In many games is provided button to get directly to the mod's path, and I think it's can be useful in AoH3 too. 

In my opinion, these changes will favor modding community in AoH3. For now, it's looking as unfinished job. Thanks for reading! If you like it, please be kind enough to leave a reaction to the post 🥰

@łukasz-jakowski

 

Edited October 31, 2024 by justiamtgm