Author instructions

What is Kodex?

Kodex is a free plugin for Mod Organizer 2, made by Kyler. It reads your MO2 instance and generates a small, self contained HTML file listing every mod in your load order, organized the same way your MO2 tree is organized (folders, separators, and all).

That file is what powers the interactive mod list on your listing page here: the searchable, expandable tree view, the plugin counts table, and even the accent color used across your page. Uploading a Kodex export gives visitors a much richer, nicer looking page than a plain text list would.

Installing Kodex

1. Download Kodex from its Nexus Mods page.
2. Extract it into your MO2 instance's Plugins folder, so the path looks like Plugins/Kodex/.
3. Restart Mod Organizer 2 if it was already open.

Generating your export

Once your list is finished and ready to share, open the Plugins button in MO2's toolbar and choose Generate Support Report - GOLDEN. This is the option meant for authors, not the regular user facing report. Click okay when prompted, and Kodex will save a small HTML file to your current profile's folder. That file is what you upload here when publishing your modlist, using the "Kodex HTML export" option.

If you use more than one profile (for example a lighter performance profile alongside your main one), generate and upload a separate export for each profile. Each one can have its own accent color too.

Setting your own accent color

Kodex lets you choose the color scheme of your export directly in MO2's plugin settings, before you generate your report. Whatever color you pick there carries over automatically to your listing page here: the title, the tree view, the plugin counts table, and a few other details will all pick up that same color. There is nothing else to configure on our end, it just reads the color straight out of your export.

Using modlist.txt instead

If you would rather not use MO2 plugins at all, you can upload your MO2 modlist.txt file instead. It will render the same tree view, just without the version numbers, priority numbers, and mod page links that a Kodex export includes.

Since a plain modlist.txthas no color information in it the way a Kodex export does, you can optionally type in your own hex color code when uploading this way, or pick one with the color swatch next to the field. Leave it blank and your listing will just use the site's default color instead.

A quick tip

Before packaging your list for release with a tool like Wabbajack, it is worth removing the SupportGoldenGenerator.py file from your Plugins/Kodex folder. Kodex works fine without it, and keeping it in could let a user accidentally regenerate and overwrite your golden comparison data.