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The idea of Lua scripting is not to do the same as C++, but to do much more that was possible before. For example I would like to see an advanced AI. Not just "like in later games", but really advanced. Modern RPG are too focused on graphics and animation and don't really care about AI. But maybe i...

Funny enough, I just ran into this the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJvzXVi3lAg

The argument seems to be you'd never need any of these functionalities since the API can always be extended and should be powerful enough. No, the argument is that much of what's needed can be provided with a built-in interface, and that the compatibility, stability, and security issues outweigh th...

What is the reasoning behind that drop-down menu? The drop-down menu is to show a list of "games" (esms that don't depend on another esm), and the list of plugins that appear under it are plugins that depend on that game. What can happen in a case like this is you have a mod for Morrowind that does...

There are mods which add a proper widescreen background (including intro video). There is nothing we can do from the engine side. The engine needs a way to know what aspect ratio a background image is supposed to be. As it is now, the engine only has two options: assume/force 4:3, or fill screen. S...

I think that's a spambot. That's word-for-word exactly what you said back here in the middle of the first sentence.

The engine will also need to support UTF-8 content files to do it correctly. Currently there's a config setting to interpret content files as being one of a select few code pages (like the original engine data expects), which is less than ideal on its own, but also limits the possible languages/char...

Sometime ago i've read that OpenMW probably will not support Vulkan, because replacing OpenGL with it will break compatibility with older hardware and supporting both API will increase maintaining cost (or something like this). And i've thought: why don't use upcoming Godot 4.0, which supports both...

Maybe he works for Microsoft, and now is too close to Bethesda to safely contribute code?

I was referring to permissive licenses, like MIT. Because here's the thing, GPL isn't free, it infects anything it's used in, and has many conditions restricting how it's used. At the same time, permissive licenses allow closed source binary-only releases, to not publish any changes made (there's o...