First off, I'm not sure if this is the wrong place to post this, but I tried everywhere else I could and got ignored by all. So, sorry in advance if this is a bad post.
The issue is that my own .pak files simply do nothing in-game. Before, the way I modded was changing the values in my own data0.pak, and this worked 100% of the time. I've tried my hand at installing other people's mods from nexus, and this also works 100% of the time. But when I decided I wanted my own mods to be separate from the game's own files, for ease of enabling + disabling them, they do absolutely nothing.
They're named properly, the folders inside the pack are following the right directory, but it's like whenever I create a .pak file, the game just doesn't read it. I am completely lost here, and have been for nearly 3 days.