Allow changing Mods folder location?

[LewsTherinTelescope]

I was toying around with injecting the API DLLs via Doorstop instead of directly overwriting the game files and found it worked like a charm, except that the mods folder is hardcoded to always be {game data}/Managed/Mods. I imagine implementing the option to change the path in-game could be complicated and largely unnecessary since almost everyone just uses Lumafly to install things, but maybe there could be an option to override it via a command line argument or environment variable?

(I would be willing to make a pull request for this and actually have a private branch with a basic environment variable-based test implementation already that seems to work fine, but I wanted to ask whether it would be an accepted feature and if so whether you all have a preference on the mechanism first.)

[fifty-six]

Oh yeah I've thought about using doorstop, haven't really gotten around to it but it'd be really nice.

I wouldn't mind allowing a Mods folder location change personally, as long as the default is the same. My only qualm is just it being annoying installer wise if you relocate, esp it the user hasn't given access to say the saves folder but has the hk stuff.

[LewsTherinTelescope]

I expected Doorstop to be complicated honestly, and maybe it is if you're building something from scratch idk, but I was surprised to find out that after installing it, using it to load the existing version of the modding API literally just required pointing dll_search_path_override to the folder with the API's DLLs and then running it.

By installer do you mean Scarab/Lumafly? My thought with having it externally configured (cli argument/env variable) was that it would leave them completely unaffected—if an installer adds support for the feature then it could allow for some neat benefits like cleaner profile swapping and making shortcuts to launch individual profiles, but if it doesn't then it'll install to and launch from the default folder as normal.

[fifty-six]

I was thinking just an option in the api settijgs json. And nah doorstop is truly super simple it's very well done.

[LewsTherinTelescope]

As in ModdingApi.GlobalSettings.json? If that's what you guys would prefer then I can do a PR based around that instead, sure!