Heliosphere

@heliosphere.app

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A community-focused, queer-led, Penumbra-integrated modding platform for FINAL FANTASY XIV. It's the one with the optional plugin that provides automatic updates […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@heliosphere, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Screenshot of the Heliosphere UI showing a menu dropdown named "Mods" where an item named "Search Heliosphere for installed mods" is highlighted with an arrow pointing to it
Screen recording of a Heliosphere Dear ImGui window. It says "Heliosphere can scan your Penumbra mod library for non-Heliosphere mods and find matching mods that have been uploaded to Heliosphere. Mods found in this manner can be converted to Heliosphere mods, enabling automatic updates and images without manually reinstalling. The conversion process should keep all your settings and hierarchy, but if anything goes wrong, mods could be left in an invalid state. Please consider backing up any important mods and settings." There is a checkbox labeled "I acknowledge that I must back up any mods I do not want to lose", and clicking it enables a button labeled "Continue". After clicking the button, a progress bar shows for a second and a list of mods appears. Above the list is text reading "Found these exact matches on Heliosphere. Please select which mods you would like to convert, or, if you would like to search for non-exact matches, click the appropriate button.". Clicking on the but…
Screenshot of a Heliosphere download button with a warning below it: Expecting to be able to download using the plugin? Heliosphere requires special permissions for the plugin integration to work. Click the button below to grant them. Important: the game must be open with the Heliosphere plugin installed. There's a button below this warning that says "Request permission" and a link below that saying "Don't show this again".
Screen recording showing a mod on Heliosphere. The "Explore files in this version" button is clicked, showing a list of mod groups and options. Clicking on these expands a tree showing the files inside the mod archive. After expanding down to a file, there are two buttons: "Download" and "View". View shows the texture file as an image in the browser, and download allows for the texture file to be downloaded. Both are clicked.
Screenshot of Heliosphere's file upload form. A file called "my mod.pmp" is selected. There is a warning that displays "This PMP contains files that are not used by Penumbra. Heliosphere filters such files before upload, so PMPs downloaded from Heliosphere will not contain them. You can upload these files as extra files that can be downloaded separately. Heliosphere can do this for you automatically if you check the box below." Below that text is a checked checkbox labelled "Upload unreferenced files as an extra .zip file attached to version 1.0.1". A text input is beneath the checkbox, and it's labelled "Name of .zip file to be created". Below that is a list of the extra files contained in the PMP, which are "dds/would you believe it.dds", "png/a loose file.png", and "png/another loose file.png".
Video showing a Heliosphere mod page that the recorder owns. She clicks on the "Upload" link in the toolbar before going back to the main page. She then clicks the "Edit" link in the toolbar and clicks on the "Upload files" tab, which shows the same form as the "Upload" link.
A video showing a new button on the Heliosphere upload page. Clicking it allows creating a new variant directly on the upload page. Also showcased is a direct link to the manage variants page also accessible on the upload page. The video shows adding a variant called "Example" using the new button, then using the new link to find and delete the newly-added variant.
Screenshot of a PMP download on Heliosphere's website. Newly added to this view are a tooltip on the icon showing what stage the download is in (currently showing "Downloading files") and a numeric progress (currently showing 2,705/12,284).
A screenshot of Heliosphere's extra files upload form. A PMP file is selected to be uploaded as an extra file, which has caused an orange warning box to appear with the title "PMPs as extra files is almost never right". The content of the warning: Uploading PMPs as extra files is almost never what you want to do. This usually happens when a creator doesn't know about variants. Variants allow you to upload multiple variants of a mod on the same page. Examples include separate packs for 1k and 2k textures or separate packs for different races. If you know what you're doing, you can upload this PMP file anyway, but remember that users will not receive any of the benefits of Heliosphere for PMPs uploaded as extra files.