User:Infinithil

Greetings, you people!

My name is Infinithil, I am from Germany and work as a civil servant.

In my free time, I work on my first addon pack for SimSettlements and help around the SimSettlements Wiki.

Have a nice day!

Finished additions: Toolkit_Chapter_05_Randomized_Clutter

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Workshop area

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Toolkit_Chapter_05.5_Helping_the_Player

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This tutorial assumes you know basic navigation and keyboard shortcuts to navigate the Creation Kit. If not, please go back and check out the Creation Kit 101 primer.

All of my guides will highlight things that are specific to your experience level: Green for beginners, and Red for seasoned modders. So if you’re new, you aren’t meant to understand the red messages, and if you’re a vet - you can probably skip the green.

Preamble

This guide is for things that I’ve started doing since the mod’s release that didn’t fit easily into any of the other tutorials, but are important enough to justify their own guide.

These are steps that will bring your buildings even closer to perfection in the eyes of the player.

Just like the Advanced Possibilities guide, this tutorial will grow over time.

Menu Selectable Building Plan

As of patch 2.0.0, players can now directly select the building model for a plot. To facilitate this, the ExtraPlaqueInfo property of the building plan is used (found by expanding the Advanced section of your building plan). To set this up so that the player can select your building and get the appropriate prompt, follow these steps.

1. In the Object Window, expand Miscellaneous and click on Messages, then filter for kgSIM_BuildingInfo_Template
2. Duplicate the kgSIM_BuildingInfo_Template form (right click it and choose Duplicate).
3. Open the duplicated form and change the data to match your building plan (check out some of the other kgSIM_BuildingInfo messages for ideas about what kind of information you might include). After these steps is an image of the template and below that is a list of the fields along with a basic explanation of each.
4. Once your message is configured, open your building plan, expand the Advanced section and point the ExtraPlaqueInfo property to your new message.

ID: Change the ID to something to help you pair it with your building plan.
Title: The title will show up on the plot Plaque below your building plan name. This should be any basic information the player might need and show be relatively short.
Message Text: This is the information that will be displayed to the player when they select your plan from the build menu. It is broken down into 4 sections.
Heading: The first line tells the player the building name, author name, and which add-on pack it’s coming from. Replace Building Name with what you named your building, replace Author Name with your name, and replace Addon Pack Name with whatever you are going to call your Addon. If you are uncertain still, just make something as a placeholder and you can come back and change it again later.
Detailed Information: This is a more detailed version of what you included in the Title field. You can make this section as long as you like.
Benefits: This is where you would describe any modifiers your building plan would apply that are beneficial to the settlement. If you aren’t adding any special modifiers, this section can be removed.
Costs: This is where you describe any negative modifiers that would impact the settlement. If you aren’t adding any negative modifiers, this section can be removed.

Scrappable Buildings

Many of you will have noticed I released a new mod file called Sim Settlements Helper. This file was to make it possible for players to scrap everything in the mod.

On Xbox and some slower computers, conditions can arise where objects from Sim Settlements get left behind. I’m not even talking about uninstallation, I’m talking about the scripts getting backed up and things being created at unexpected times so that Sim Settlements misses them in cleanup stages. So rather than forcing the player to use console commands, allowing them to scrap the objects in workshop mode is clean easy solution already available in the game.

You can easily add this to your own stuff, here’s what you do.

1. Start by creating a new FormList, go to the Object Window, expand Miscellanous, click on FormList and right-click in the right half of the window and click new.
2. Give your formlist a unique ID, I tend to include the word Scrap in it. Leave your FormList open and drag the window to the side so we can add things to it.
3. Now expand World Objects and click on one of the highest level categories (activator, container, door, etc), in the filter type in your prefix.
4. Click on the first thing on the right (if nothing shows up, skip to the next category), then hold shift and scroll down to click on the last thing in the list, this should highlight them all. Now drag all of these into your FormList.
   • Repeat this process for all 11 of the WorldObject major categories.
5. Now click OK to save your FormList.
6. Next, go to the Object Window, expand Items and click on Constructible Object.
7. Right-click on the right hand side and choose New. This will bring up the constructible object form.
   1. Enter a unique ID.
   2. Right-click in the box under Recipe Filters and select Add, find: “WorkshopRecipeFilterScrap” and add it.
   3. In the Created Object dropdown, find your FormList (you can use the filter just above it to narrow down this list.
   4. Then press OK to save the Constructible Object.
8. You’re done!

So long as you followed the advice to create custom named duplicates of items you are spawning in your StageItemSpawns array (as tutorial 4 taught you), everything your building plans create will be scrappable.

They will also return any items to discourage anyone from using this as a cheat to generate unlimited resources.

Performance Settings Support - new in 1.1.9

In the City Manager Holotape is a section called Performance Settings. This allows players to turn off certain objects in our building plans to help with performance issues.

There are two ways you can take advantage of these.

The Removal Method: For objects that need the same classification throughout all of your building plans or that are only used in one building plan, you can simply add the ActorValue kgSIM_PlotSpawn_PerformanceClass set to one of the following numbers:

1 = Detailed model - a very complex model that could cause fps issues due to large textures or high polygon counts
2 = Detailed light - small lights that could be removed without making the building completely dark 3 = Animated Object - objects that loop through an animation like flags or machines
4 = Special Effect - smoke, fire, water, etc
5 = Radio
6 = Sound Emitter
7 = Actor type - NPCs, pets, etc.
8 = Container - Container type object holding lootable items (not currently in use) 9 = Clutter
10 = Water Plane - Water planes cause everything beneath them to be water as well, so players building plots up in the air may want to be able to turn them off.

Couple of important rules with this method:

1. Never apply or alter this AV on the kgSIM forms that are part of Sim Settlements, or you’ll flag them for every building plan instead of just your own.
2. Don’t apply the AV if you want your object to appear no matter what. So if you have an activator running a script, you definitely don’t want it being skipped or removed.
   

If you want to apply the classification to an object, but only on certain building plans, you have two options:

1. Create a copy of your object with the appropriate AV value from the list above, then change out the version in your building plan StageItemSpawn records with your new copy.
2. Use the iType field in your StageItemSpawn record as described in the downgrade method below.
   

The Downgrade Method: Use this method if you’d like to replace your object with a less intense version, for example: replace a high-poly model with a low-poly version, or a shadow light with a non-shadow light. To do this, instead of applying the ActorValue to your object, you instead use that same number in the new StageItemSpawn field called iType.

Then add your downgraded model as a new entry immediately following that one. Your downgraded model should have nothing entered in the iType field, and should have the EXACT same sSpawnName value.

If the player has that type disabled, your downgraded one will be displayed instead.

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Toolkit_Chapter_06_Settler_Navigation

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This tutorial assumes you know basic navigation and keyboard shortcuts to navigate the Creation Kit. If not, please go back and check out the Creation Kit 101 primer.

All of my guides will highlight things that are specific to your experience level: Green for beginners, and Red for seasoned modders. So if you’re new, you aren’t meant to understand the red messages, and if you’re a vet - you can probably skip the green.

Preamble

Alright, you’re on the home stretch to having a feature complete building! Compared to the time involved in the previous tutorials, this one will be a breeze.

We’re going to do two things, Navmesh your 3 building models (Navmeshing is a process to teach AI how to walk through a space), and add a special type of collision called Obstacle Navcutting. Obstacle Navcutting is not an official term, it’s what I call it because of the pieces involved. We’re making use of an old trick Bethesda used in Hearthfire to dynamically manipulate the Navmesh at runtime.

Adding Obstacle Navcutting To Your First Building

Obstacle Navcutting is something special you need to do to Sim Settlements buildings. If you are used to building workshop creatable buildings, or want to go on to doing so with the skills you’ve learned here, you won’t need to do this step.

When objects are spawned by code the way they are in Sim Settlements, their navmesh (the other part we’ll be doing to the building in the next section) is not immediately recognized by the game. The player has to first exit the game and come back in for it to work.

So we’re going to add some rudimentary boxes to show the NPC how to get around!

1. Go to the Cell View, make sure World Space is set to Interiors and open the cell kgSIMObstacleNavCutDisplays.
   • This is a cell with pre-created boxes (those bright-pink eye sores) laid out along with the approximate sized items they will work for.
2. Now find the SCOL for your first building level, and float it somewhere above the cement pad (catch those falling models!).
3. Next, fragment the collection with Alt+U.
4. Your goal here is to add those pink boxes to your walls, and any large object that is between the doorway and any furniture the settler needs to get to activate such as a bed, or a shopkeeper marker.
   1. They don’t need to cover vertically, in fact they should be sunk below the floor by a about 20% of their height.
   2. Remember in the first tutorial, I suggested you bake your major pieces of furniture into the model? This is one of the reasons. It’s very easy to simply pick a box that matches the furniture approximately.
   3. Leave plenty of space. The doorway size you’ve seen in the game is about as narrow a gap as you should leave between any two of these boxes if you want the NPC to be able to walk between them.
   4. Overlapping corners is NOT necessary, if the space between two of these is less than half a doorway width, the NPCs generally won’t even attempt to walk between them.
   5. Don’t worry about furniture up against walls if it will not block a path to things the settler will not activate (Settlers will only activate objects of the Furniture type that you placed).
   6. If your building has two or more stories, do not worry about the upper floors, those will be handled by our NavMesh in the next section.
   7. Note: These boxes are markers, so they will not show up in the game!Obstacle navcut as viewed from underneath of the SecuriStop Armor Store. Your box layout should look similar from the bottom. Notice the large gap near the doorway, and the very small box used for the counter. Better to go too small, than too big.
5. Once you’ve set up the boxes, you’re going to follow the normal steps to create the SCOL/Nif/Static - with a few differences:
   1. When naming your SCOL, add _Obstacle to the end of the name.
   2. When you’re in Nifskope, do NOT press Save right away like we normally do, first you’re going to do a few additional steps:
      1. Throughout this section I will refer to “Blocks” some people refer to them as “Nodes”, which is essentially any one of these entry lines inside of Nifskope - it’s a little more complex than that - but for our purposes, that will work!
      2. Click the > next to 0 BSFadeNode to expand it.
      3. Look at the revealed Blocks and expand them one at a time until you find one with a bunch of things under it with kgSIM_Obstacle in the name.
      4. Click on the NiNode that has all of the kgSIM_Obstacles under it, count the number of entries that do NOT have kgSIM_Obstacle in them.
      5. Go down to Block Details, and change the Num Children field to be the number of Non-kgSIM_Obstacles (You can edit that number by double-clicking it.).
      6. Double-click the refresh icon, and expand the Children list below. You should notice now that things have changed in the list of Blocks above. The one you have selected now only has some of them left under it equal to the Num Children you just entered. The rest are now down at the bottom of the file. This is normal.
      7. In the Children section, you’re going to make sure the entries left are all pointing to the NiNodes that are not kgSIM_Obstacles, to do so, double-click on one of the Children entries (aim for the number) and type in the ID of one of the ones you need to point at that was moved to the bottom of the blocklist. See below for a image example:
         In this we would click on 63 at the bottom of the file, and type in 84, so that the BaseFenceChainLinkHalfNoPost01 is moved back here. We’d then replace the 66 in the bottom window with 87, and so on.
         All that should be left at the bottom of your file, offset slightly to the left, are the kgSIM_Obstacles.
      8. Click on 0 BSFadeNode in the Block List, then edit the Num Children entry in the Block Details. You’re going to take the number there and increase it by the number of kgSIM_Obstacle objects. So if the number is 2, and there were 6 obstacle objects, you’ll change that number to 8.
      9. Now, doubleclick the refresh symbol just below that number you edited and expand Children.
      10. For each of the None entries, enter the ID for one of the kgSIM_Obstacles.
          See image below for an example of a what a correct node layout should look like once you’re finished with these steps.Your finished nif should look something like this. If you click on the down arrow next to 0 BSFadeNode, everything else should be hidden. If not, you did something wrong.
          
      11. Now before you save this, you should make a backup of the nif file you already created for this model, before you added the Obstacle pieces. Once you’ve made a backup copy, save over the original file - which will automatically update your Static form in the Creation Kit.
6. Last step. Open the Static form (not the SCOL) of the building model you just edited, and check in Obstacle. This tells the game to look for the pink boxes when deciding how the NPCs should move around.
7. Head into the game and give it a test! You should be able to command an NPC to walk into your building without it running into a ton of stuff! If it doesn’t appear to work at all (they run directly into the side of the building), you may have missed a step - or you may have left large gaps where you shouldn’t have.
   • If you continue to struggle to get this to work, you can test changes to the model before you do all of the Node manipulation, though sometimes it will cause the game to crash to desktop - so be aware!

Creating Your First Navmesh

Some experienced modders will tell you that Navmeshing is a giant pain in the arse, and when doing it on a large scale- it can be. Doing so for three small models is nice and quick.

This may be difficult to explain in text/images, and I will try to get up a Youtube video explaining it as soon as possible. In the meantime, there are lots of video tutorials on Youtube for Skyrim Navmeshing, and the exact same method applies - I particularly like the tutorials by darkfox127

1. Find your Static model (not the SCOL) for your level 1 building in the Object Window (I think you know enough now to find them… ok fine, WorldObjects->Static).
2. Right-click on it in the Object Window and choose NavMesh Object. This will open your model up in the Render window.
3. Rotate your view until you’re looking at an entryway to the building.
4. For our purposes, Navmeshing will be done entirely on the floor of the model (Though technically you can do the roof as well if you like), so when I ask you to click and create points, I’m always asking you to do it on the floor.
5. Right-click near one of the front corners of the doorway. A small green cube should appear, and the model of the building may no longer be highlighted green - this is normal.
6. Now, hold the Ctrl-key and right click in the other front corner. You should now have two green cubes. (If one of them turns a purple color, it means it was deselected, hold your Ctrl key and left-click to select it again)
7. With the other two selected (highlighted green), Ctrl+Right-Click on the inside of your doorway (see image below). Another cube should appear, as well as a red triangle. Two of your cubes should be selected, and the other unselected.
8. Next, Ctrl+Right-Click in the opposite inside point of your doorway, to create another triangle. You should now have a nice rectangle.
9. Continue to follow this pattern around the inside of your building.

Some important tips while working:

1. The two green cubes will be connected to the next one you create to form a triangle, so be aware of which two are selected.
2. NEVER create triangles overlapping each other, notice how the overlapping piece is bright red (see below). This will cause the NPC to get stuck!
3. Instead, change the cubes you have selected so that triangles never cross over each other.
4. 
5. Do not leave gaps in your NavMesh, the surface should have one continuous Navmesh.
6. If you have a second floor, stairs can be a little tricky, they can just cover the entire stairs with two triangles, and when you get to the top, you could continue the upper floor without breaking the Navmesh. I will show you approximately how to do it with some images:
7. Once you have your floor and stair surfaces NavMeshed. Click the NavMesh menu at the top and select Finalize Cell NavMeshes. Then close the NavMesh toolbar.
8. Save your plugin.

The Navmesh can be difficult to test. It requires that your building is created, then you have to save and exit the game, and load back in before it is even recognized. With two story buildings, the NPCs will sometimes still struggle to navigate.

Hey what’s the big idea kinggath! I checked some of your model NavMeshes and you didn’t follow your own rules! During development, I became convinced that NavMeshes did not work on code created objects. I tested everything I could think of to make them work (you’ll notice some of my model NavMeshes have long “tongues” sticking out the front doors).

It was only when Transfer Settlements was released, that I brought up the issue with cdante (the MA). He was shocked to learn I was correct! He began testing fervantly and finally discovered that exiting the game and coming back in allows the Navmesh to start working again. So props to him for figuring that out!

So my answer is- I just haven’t gotten to it yet. In a future patch, I will correctly follow my own advice and fix the navmesh in all of the Sim Settlement models.

You’re Done!

Your Settlers should now navigate your building with ease (well as best as AI can). If you made it through all of the tutorials, your building is feature complete and ready for release!

The first few will take you a long time, but after a while they become very easy, especially if you sketch some ideas out in advance. I can usually put together a full model with all of the steps in an evening as long as I know what I want it to look like. I find the part that takes the longest is learning what all the different statics look like in the game so you know what to filter for!

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Toolkit_Chapter_07_Releasing_your_Mod

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All of my guides will highlight things that are specific to your experience level: Green for beginners, and Red for seasoned modders. So if you’re new, you aren’t meant to understand the red messages, and if you’re a vet - you can probably skip the green.

Preamble

While this tutorial is directed at new mod authors, if you are a vet, you should skip to the section titled Coming Up With Standards To Help the Player-base. There is a small template you can use with your description so that players can make sure they have the minimum version of Sim Settlements that your Add-On pack requires, as well as outlines which features of SIM Settlements it supports.

IMPORTANT: Never include any of the Sim Settlements scripts or other files with your mod, as long as the player has Sim Settlements installed, it will detect them. Doing so will make it impossible for players using your Add-On pack from ever receiving updates to those files. Since Sim Settlements is an ESM, every file you include will overwrite those in Sim Settlements.

The moment is finally here, you’ve spent hours dealing with kinggath’s crazy tutorial series, you’ve made some buildings, or VIP stories and are ready to share your work with the community!

First things first - consider the limitations of modding Fallout 4. If you’re unaware, due to the way mods are handled in code, there is a limit of 255 mods for any individual player. So releasing a single building plan in your mod, may not be appealing to some players.

You are more than welcome to release just a tiny bit of content at a time! Though I want to give you some ideas to help encourage users to make use of your add-on pack:

You might want to wait until you have a few more buildings/stories complete. Or you could clearly explain in your description that you plan on adding more content in the future, maybe mention that you’re looking for feedback before you put in more time on the project.

Or consider teaming up with other budding mod authors you meet in the Discord channel to combine your content together to make a super add-on pack (if you decide to go this route, myself and other experienced authors can help you merge your esp files together!).

And of course, I will gladly promote your add-on pack on the description page of Sim Settlements! Just send me a link after you’ve released it with a screenshot you’d like me to use in promoting it!

With all that said, let’s get started!

Coming Up With Standards To Help the Player-base

Based on the number of requests I’ve received for the Builder’s Toolkit, I think there’s a chance we see a lot of different Add-on packs - which is awesome! I dream of being able to play this mod one day and never seeing the same building twice after I’ve built up all of my settlements. Obviously, I can’t do that alone - so I’m incredibly excited that so many of you guys are interested in adding your own flare!

Sim Settlements is going to continue to gain features over the foreseeable future. Some of these will add major new possibilities to what you as an Add-On builder can do to the system. Since these upgrades will change some of the scripts involved, you’re going to have to require that not only does the player update your mod, but also to the appropriate version of Sim Settlements.

On top of version concerns, you also have a lot of options over how complete your buildings are. You can absolutely release a building pack where all you’ve done is the base models and haven’t added construction stages as they will still look awesome inside of player settlements - but you should warn the users about what features you’re not supporting.

To help make it easy for Sim Settlement users to know what to expect from your Add-On pack, I’ve included a little template you can add somewhere in your description to help players know what they are getting!

So if you decided to skip the navigation step, I won’t start receiving as many bug reports that navigation stopped working because the player will have clearly seen the template in your description.

If you don’t like the design of the template, feel free to create your own - I just wanted to provide a starting point.

The template can be found inside of the Builder’s Toolkit in a folder called “Add-on Pack Description Template”.

The Nexus: Where it All Began

Sim Settlements, and my Fallout 4 modding love, wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for nexusmods.com. The site has created such a great community, and wonderful tools for mod authors to manage their mods. So we’re going to start there.

In fact, I’d recommend you always release on nexusmods.com first, to make sure you fix all the bugs (bugs for add-on packs will probably be little things like placement issues or navigation problems). The Bethesda.net user base is far larger, and will overwhelm you with bug reports if you aren’t prepared.

I will probably make another tutorial for uploading to Bethesda.net in the future, but the process is very simple, so existing Youtube tutorials may be enough.

If for some reason you don’t have a nexusmods.com account, go set one up!

First thing we need to do is create you a mod page! Don’t worry, it won’t be public until you decide to publish it.

1. Log into nexusmods/com/fallout4, mouseover Files and choose Add a file
2. This will take you to a Wizard for adding new files. Start by filling out the first page. If you’re not sure about an entry, it’s probably safe to leave it as the default. You can edit this stuff in the future with the Edit Attributes button on your mod page.
   • When you get to the Long Description, if you switch to BBCode (link in the upper-right corner) and then paste the contents of the “Optional Header For Your Nexus Description.txt” in the Builder’s Toolkit, when you click BBCode again, you will have a logo and a list of building types and features that you can fill in the answers for!Obviously you can add whatever you like after this, or use something entirely different - but this should help you finish quickly while also informing the players what you’re proving them!
3. Continue filling out whatever screens you’d like in the wizard, such as adding images or videos to sample some of the new stuff you’re adding (don’t share too much or you’ll take away I’ll the excitement of upgrades!).
   • When you get to the requirements screen, check in any DLC that you used content from, and be sure to find Sim Settlements under Files or Mods Available on this Site (see image below)
4. When you get to the files section, skip it. We’ll do that last.
5. When you’ve finished everything but the files, click on the View File Page So Far to preview your work.

Alright, almost there. We just need to upload your files. First there are a few steps to do to package them for players to download so that they work with Nexus Mod Manager nicely.

1. Let’s package up your files.
   1. We’re going to use a file included with the Creation Kit, instead of the Creation Kit itself. The Creation Kit is notorious for including files it shouldn’t that could break other mods - the most likely one it would break in this case would be Sim Settlements (wouldn’t that be embarassing…)
   2. Go to your Fallout 4/Tools directory, find the Archive2 directory and open it up, then open the program Archive2.exe. (this might be another one worth pinning to your taskbar or adding a shortcut to somewhere else, as you’ll use it every time you want to make an update to your mod!)
   3. Click on the Archive menu and choose Add Folder, now navigate to the folder you’ve been saving your models to. It should be under Fallout 4/Data/Meshes. Click your folder (but don’t open it) and press the Select Folder button. All of your models should be added to the screen!If you added any other custom files to your mod such as sounds, or script fragments you will add them here as well. Do NOT add textures to this archive, textures are stored separately. Since custom textures are not discuss in this tutorial series, I’m not going to go over creating those archives, feel free to ask for an assist if you decided to add some!
   4. Finally press File->Save As and navigate to the Fallout 4/Data folder. Your archive should be named:
      Yourespname - Main
      Where yourespname is the file name of your mod without the .esp, and there should be a single space before and after the dash.
   5. In the future, when you want to make updates to your mod, or changes to your models, before uploading the changes, you’ll want to come back and repeat these steps, except that you can first open your existing archive with Archive2. You can then just add your entire meshes folder again, and the program is smart enough to just update the ones you changed.
2. Next we’re going to create the package that you’ll upload to nexusmods.com
   1. Go to your Fallout 4/Data directory, and grab a copy of your esp and ba2 files.
   2. Set yourself up a folder on your hard drive to work in, I’ll refer to it as your Packaging Directory and paste your two mod files inside of that folder.
   3. Next, create a folder called “fomod”.
   4. Inside the Sim Settlements Builder’s Toolkit is a folder called “FOMOD Template”, inside is a file called info.xml, copy it your newly created fomod directory.
   5. Open your copy of info.xml with an editor such as Notepad++.
   6. Change “Your Mod Name” to whatever you want to call it (use Sim Settlements in the name to help people find it!) Examples, bigjohn’s Sim Settlements Building Pack or mustangsally’s Sim Settlements Story Pack.
   7. Change “yournexususername” to your nexusmods.com username
   8. The version can remain 1.0 for now, but if you decide to update your mod, you should come back here and change this number so that the user can see in Nexus Mod Manager that they have the version that matches the website.
   9. In the Website section, replace “YOUR MOD NUMBER HERE” with the number assigned to your mod, which you can see in your browser url of the mod page we created in the previous steps, it will look like:
      http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/XXXXX
      Where the Xs are your mod number.
   10. In the description, replace the Xs with the version of Sim Settlements you had installed when you last worked on your mod file. This is the earliest version of features you used. That way if I release new features you take advantage of, you can be sure you at least warned your users they need to update Sim Settlements as well as your mod!
   11. After the Sim Settlements link you can add whatever you want to the description. I tend to just put a very simple explanation of what my mod is, and let the main nexus mod page do the talking.
   12. Save the xml file.
   13. Go to your Packaging Directory, select the fomod folder, your mod file, and your archive file, right-click on one and find the 7zip menu and choose Add to archive (continued on next page)
   14. Enter a name for your archive at the top and Press OK.
3. Now go to your mod page, and click Files on the right hand side, this will take you to the File Management section.
4. Click the “upload form” button, to be taken to the file details page:
5. Enter what you’d like people to call your mod (including Sim Settlements AddOn Pack as part of the name will probably be helpful so people know what it is right away!) Examples: Papajulio’s Addon Pack for Sim Settlements, or Raider Home AddOn Pack for Sim Settlements.
6. Enter something like Main File as the small description (This is a small description of the file itself - you’ll see a lot of mod authors will use this to denote optional files).
7. Click Select a file to upload… and upload the archive you created.
8. Type in the exact same version number you have in your info.xml file. (this is how players will confirm they are on your latest version).
9. Check in the “This is the latest version…” and “Set the new file as the main NMM file”.
10. When the file finishes uploading a Submit button will appear at the bottom of the screen. Click this to save your work.
11. Click View File to go to your mod’s page.
12. And finally the moment you’ve been waiting for…. Click Publish.

You are now officially a mod author! Welcome to the club!

Don’t forget to send me a link so I can promote your Addon Pack!