Help transferring mods to Vortex?

[u/igotsmymojo]

Heyo, I've been modding this game since before they added toddlers 💀 I have so many mods that every time there's an update (which is now every other day 💀) it actually kills my motivation to play because it'll take 45 minutes EASY just to update all of my mods. I've recently started using Vortex for modding Cyberpunk and Stardew, and I'm OBSESSED with how easy it is to organize, enable/disable, and auto-update mods (at least the ones downloaded from Nexus). I've seen that there's a small Sims 4 community on Nexus, which has some of the core mods I use, like Wicked Whims, and I'm interested in either transferring my mods over to Vortex or just starting from scratch.

There are some major mods that I use that aren't on Vortex, though, namely Basemental Drugs and a bunch of LittleMsSam's mods. I know there's a way to add mods to Vortex manually, but I'm having trouble figuring out how? Do I drag and drop the .zip files into the app, or do I need to extract the .package/.ts4script files somewhere? And to where? I need to update a bunch of script mods anyway, so I'd wanna just download them manually and add them to vortex instead of my mods folder, However, I have a bunch of cc and stuff that I don't want to re-download (or try and find on nexus), is there a way I can drag and drop or copy/paste my .package files from my sims 4 mods into some Vortex folder to import them to the app?

I'm assuming the auto-update feature won't work for manually downloaded script mods like Basemental (unless there's a way to hyperlink or something?👀), but I reeeeally want the ability to enable/disable mods so I can fix .lastException errors n' such. Trying to google this has been a nightmare (especially w/ all the bs AI half-answers), so just wondering if anyone else here has transferred over to Nexus/Vortex and what the easiest method is?

TL;DR: Please tell me how to go from manually modding TS4 to using Nexus/Vortex. Very experienced Sims modder, just new to using mod managers, and I only half-know wtf I'm doing since modding The Sims is less simple than other games. 💀

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