Time scale modification

[Helv]

Hi, I have a suggestion for this amazing project:

In vanilla Morrowind a day longs 48 real time minutes.
Will it be possible under OpenMW to change that length to a chosen one, and therefore anything depending on it?
Like the dynamic shadows, quests which let you wait some days (e.g. strongholds construction), beasts respawn time, or the merchants' gold respawn time (I thought about it while reading this: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2100 ).

I know that there were a mod which did this for vanilla, but it was reputed buggy, and didn't work well with the MGE dynamic shadows.

Thank you for making this project, and sorry for my english mistakes!

[SquireNed]

Console commands can do this without mods in vanilla Morrowind, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm sure the same command will be replicated in OpenMW if it's not there already.

[Jyby]

I couldn't find time directly here: https://wiki.openmw.org/index.php?title=GMSTs_(status)

How exactly is time defined in morrowind? Is it in esm?

[scrawl]

This is all already possible in vanilla morrowind. It's controlled by the "timescale" global variable.

To change it, you can use the console:

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set timescale to 300

But I'm sure its also possible to create an ESP that changes the timescale global.

[Okulo]

Set Timescale To [Value]
Changes the speed of the day/night cycle. A value of 1 makes the day go at real-time speed; an in-game day would last 24 hours in real life. A value of 10 will make it ten times as fast as real-time (ie. one in-game day lasts 2.4 hours), etc. The default timescale is 30 (1 ingame day = 48 real minutes).

- UESP

[Helv]

Yes but if I remember correctly, you have to type this command everytime you load your game.
It would be fine to have this option as a menu setting.

[Okulo]

I think I ran into the option in OpenCS as a global variable or something.

[PeterBitt]

Yes but if I remember correctly, you have to type this command everytime you load your game.
It would be fine to have this option as a menu setting.

You only have to do this once per character. Just make sure you save the game after the console command.

[Helv]

@PeterBitt: I just reinstalled Morrowind and yeah it works! Thanks for the tip.