✨ Feature Request - Support virtual file systems

[Rikj000]

Issue Description

It would be nice if UE Mod Hub could support virtual file systems,
analog to how Mod Organiser 2 implements them.

Which does not place the mods directly in the game directory,
but instead symbolic links them in place.

This can bring following benefits:

• Easy ability to launch the game in a vanilla (un-modded) or modded state,
  by applying/removing symbolic links before booting the game through the mod manager.
• Easier to update the game, since game directory structure will remain clean / untouched.
• Launching of various different modded game profiles (= different sets of mods for each profile)

Implementation suggestion

I've already tested this while developing a mod of my own.
Came to the conclusion that at both Lua and Pak mods work correctly when symbolic linked.
I've symbolic linked them through the Windows MKLINK CMD command:

# Print help
MKLINK /H
# Symbolic link directory example
MKLINK /D "C:\Target\Location" "C:\Source\Location"
# Symbolic link file example
MKLINK "C:\Target\Location\File" "C:\Source\Location\File"

On Linux you can do a similar thing with the ln bash command:

# Print help
ln --help
# Symbolic link directory/file example
ln -s "/source/location" "/target/location"
ln --symbolic "/source/location" "/target/location"

Keep in mind:

• Windows: 1st Target, 2nd Source
• Linux: 1st Source, 2nd Target

[Rikj000]

Written a (not user friendly / developer targeted) PowerShell script,
which might prove useful / helpful with implementing this issue 🙂
(Rename .ps1.txt => .ps1, Github did not allow the upload otherwise)
Palworld-Mods-Link.ps1.txt

It requires following a directory structure as following:

Click to Expand/Collapse the "Required directory structure"

Used command: palworld-mods-link -v "v0.4.14"

With it you can change the Palworld version + mods with x1 command line,
through the magic of symbolic links! 🚀