Create Your Own Marketplace Provider

A personal marketplace provider enables you to host your own collection of mods and themes. It’s ideal for testing creations, sharing with a small group, or curating a custom collection for your community.

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Setup Guide

1. Fork the Marketplace Repository Create your own copy of the marketplace structure by forking the Lution-Marketplace repository on GitHub.

2. Add Your Content Files In your forked repository, upload your .zip files and thumbnails to the appropriate folders:

   • Mod .zip files → Assets/Mods/Content/
   • Theme .zip files → Assets/Themes/Content/
   • Thumbnail images → Assets/thumbnails/

3. Configure the Metadata JSON

   • content.json: Defines how items are shown in the UI (in Assets/Mods/content.json and Assets/Themes/content.json).
   • info.json: Maps display names to .zip file paths (in Assets/Mods/info.json and Assets/Themes/info.json).

4. Activate Your Marketplace in Lution After pushing your changes to GitHub, configure Lution to use your personal repository via the Marketplace Settings. Enter your repo in the format YourUsername/YourRepoName.

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1. Fork the Marketplace Repository

Start by forking the Lution-Marketplace repo. This will give you your own working copy to modify, without impacting the original.

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2. Add Your Content Files

Organize and upload your content:

• Mods: Place .zip files in Assets/Mods/Content/
• Themes: Place .zip files in Assets/Themes/Content/
• Thumbnails: Add image files to Assets/thumbnails/

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3. Configure the Metadata

A. content.json

This file controls how items are displayed in the marketplace.

Example entry:

[
  {
    "title": "My Mod",
    "body": "My first mod",
    "image": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YourUser/Lution-Marketplace/main/Assets/thumbnails/my-mod.png",
    "button": "Download",
    "creator": "YourName",
    "version": "version-a1b2c3d4",
    "sb": "stable"
  }
]

• title: Item name
• body: Short description
• image: Raw GitHub URL to the thumbnail image
• button: Button label (e.g., “Download”)
• creator: Author’s name
• version: Compatible game version
• sb: Stability status (stable, unstable, unknown)

B. info.json

This file links the displayed name to the actual .zip file.

Example entry:

[
  {
    "name": "My Mod",
    "path": "Assets/Mods/Content/mymod.zip"
  }
]

Note: "name" must exactly match the "title" in content.json. The "path" is a relative path to your .zip file.

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4. Use Your Marketplace in Lution

Once your changes are committed:

1. In Lution, navigate to Marketplace Settings.
2. Enter your GitHub repository in the format: YourUsername/YourRepoName (e.g., Chip/Lution-Marketplace)
3. Lution will now load your mods and themes directly from your customized marketplace.

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Summary

Here’s the directory structure for clarity:

• Directory

  Assets/

  • Directory

    Mods/

    • Directory

      Content/

      • your-mod.zip

    • content.json

    • info.json

  • Directory

    Themes/

    • Directory

      Content/

      • your-theme.zip

    • content.json

    • info.json

  • Directory

    thumbnails/

    • your-mod.png

• README.md (optional)

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