Manager

The manager is a small ImGui window that opens before the engine finishes starting, so mods can be toggled without editing files by hand.

Opening it

Either:

• launch the game with -cu3ml-manager, or
• set manager_at_start = true under [loader] in Mods/cu3ml.toml (the manager can set this itself).

Both are checked at the top of the hooked GEngineLoop::Init. Boot halts there and doesn't continue until the window closes, which means the engine hasn't set up rendering or input yet — the manager runs in its own Win32 window with its own OpenGL 3 context, not as an in-game overlay.

What's in it

• Header and meta row — loader build (x64 / x86), mod counts.
• Loader settings — toggles for lua, lua_verbose and manager_at_start, with the path of the cu3ml.toml they're written to.
• Discovered mods — every folder with a valid mod.toml, in resolved dependency order, each with a switch. If none were found, the panel says so and points at the Mods directory.
• Detail pane — for the selected mod: enable state, folder key, full path, counts of content paths / spawn patches / replace patches, and the requires list.
• QUIT and LAUNCH GAME.

What the buttons do

Closing the window with the title-bar X is treated as quit.

Toggling a mod marks the loader config dirty and updates the in-memory enable state; on launch, mod_loader::refresh() rebuilds the active mod list and replace tables from it, so changes take effect for that same session — no restart needed.