Free Rider Mod Manager

As you all know, there are several third party developers who have indulged in creating mods for this community. The majority of these mods have been small scripts hosted on tampermonkey. Although there is no real reason for it, and although tampermonkey is a good viable solution, I wanted to make a mod manager similar to Minecraft's resource pack manager where you can enable/disable packs, as well as change their priority. What separates this from tampermonkey is that instead of running the script on document start or end, devevelopers will have the option to run the script as soon as the game loads or when the game is fully loaded. Furthermore, developers will not have to account for navigation/location changes. This will automatically re-run all userscripts whenever the location changes.

I quickly threw something together last night and managed to successfully create and inject userscripts from the dashboard, however, none of its main functionality is there yet. I may release a beta version on the chrome webstore for people to mess around with at will. There are also plans to detect frhd-lite and Polygon's mod and maybe change priority of those as well.

Chrome Extension

Stay tuned.

 

Working on a beautified built-in code editor:


Can't really tell, but it will be colourful when I'm done. Here's what the popup will look like. You will be able to drag around the enabled scripts to change their priority.

 

Dev update
Syntax highlighting has been implemented as well as basic functionality including priority management. I believe the only thing that's missing at the moment is the ability to modify the "run-at" option on scripts, as well as a few bugs that need to be squashed. The first beta version has been released on GitHub. I encourage devs to test it out and search for some bugs. It would help a lot.

 

Version 0.0.1-beta
The first beta version of the Free Rider Mod Manager has been published to the Chrome Web Store after a lot of tedious changes and bug fixes.

Known bugs

• There is a bug causing the first input on the editor to create a new line at the top
• There may be issues with the actual userscript injection, but it should work for the most part
• Script editor settings are not currently available

This was mainly an initial release beta to get something out there. The next version should fix all of these issues and provide a lot more features in a bug free environment.

 

There may be a November update coming to address some of these issues as well as improve the overall functionality of the mod manager. It is not currently in any state that should be used by average users. I suggest that tampermonkey still be used until the first stable version of this project is finalized and published.