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Water reflection is changed via the in-game settings.

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OpenMW uses multithreading for many things, but the draw operation is necessarily kept to a single thread. Morrowind's old age works against it; it is horrifically draw-bottlenecked compared to modern games, due to how its assets and world were built. Some mods make this even worse by tripling the n...

Besides the GPU overhead, if the worst case is that it merely looks the same as it does now without the feature active, that's not too bad at all for an optional feature. A more elegant solution that provides extra data, like the checkbox with distance factor, could be developed in the future.

I think it looks superb, and have wanted something like this for a long time. Do you have an example of particles that look blatantly incorrect with this technique? Ones that break the illusion, as you put it. Because if in 90% of cases it looks great, and the remaining 10% have the possibility of s...

From what I can tell, you'd still have an issue from the other end - enabling the stronghold through the usual quest stage will not actually update the visuals until you enter its exterior cell, so it will "pop" into existence when you approach the area. I still don't know how something hu...

Cross-fading between LOD (which Skyrim also has) is high on my Wishlist too. I've been hand-making LOD for lots of the common exterior objects.

I think we're saying the same thing. Small feature culling "works" with active grid paging, except the objects are now a chunk, which of course is much larger and so they are not culled from the same distance. Here is some example footage, if anyone was curious: https://streamable.com/nnh1...

Object paging already "disrupts" small feature culling and NiLODNode - pages are not rebuilt, the culling/lod is simply chunkified, leading to some objects in the chunk changing sooner or later than expected. Implementing object fading while leaving paging as-is will probably have a simila...

For what it's worth, oblivion has alpha blend fading out the wazoo (see above), and that ran better than OpenMW on my Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics. It also was designed with the Xbox 360 in mind. I think the alpha blending concern is perhaps overstated compared to the benefits.