New Skywind trailer

[Lazaroth]

Has everyone seen the new Skywind trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrH_cb8zeY

[Necrod]

Skywind shouldn't be getting that much more attention, people still don't understand the potential of OpenMW.
Seen it though and can't deny it looks awesome.

[psi29a]

From what I understand, they began by using Morrowind assets and are slowly replacing all the assets with their own higher resolution versions so that nothing in the mod (it is a mod to Skyrim using it's meshes and etc.) has anything to do with Morrowind itself. That was straight from the horses mouth...

That being said, it still requires Skyrim to run which isn't multi-platform.

My question is... can we 'liberate' their textures?

[Okulo]

I've just watched a let's play of their 0.9 release. As pretty as the trailer is, the actual gameplay is... very awkward. Their textures are very decent though, and I have to wonder the same thing BrotherBrick voiced. Implementing their textures into this project could go a long way towards the eyecandy side of things.

[ezze]

That being said, it still requires Skyrim to run which isn't multi-platform.

Not even available DRM-free.

Personally I do not get this projects at all... Why waste time and obviously good talent moving a game in another or making complex workarounds to closed and often broken systems (like what MGE does) instead of definitely solve the problems, this is what the OpenMW project is doing.

It might be slowed in the short term, but it pays off in the long.

[Chris]

Why waste time and obviously good talent moving a game in another or making complex workarounds to closed and often broken systems (like what MGE does) instead of definitely solve the problems, this is what the OpenMW project is doing.

Modifying an existing thing is infinitely easier than creating a new thing. Particularly something as complex as a complete game engine, let alone one that needs to match vanilla behavior 1:1. Also, the work that was done for MCP (by the same guy that did MGE) has helped OpenMW a great deal in regards to certain behaviors and formulas.

[Greendogo]

MCP was done by Hrnchamd, MGE was mostly done by Timeslip way back in the day.

[Amenophis]

I think he´s talking about MGEXE! Hrnchamd made a fork.

[PeterBitt]

Wow some of the assets look awesome!
Downloading their asset pack now

[WeirdSexy]

I think this thread has caused some concern of at least one of the Skywind devs.

(from YouTube)

ok MrOpenMW, I have a legitimate concern. I just read your forum, and many visitors/fans/devs (ie "PeterBitt" and "BrotherBrick") are rather unapologetic and open about "liberating" aka stealing Skywind's new assets, many of which I made myself with a lot of effort. Can you please curb this attitude and opinion on your site. Despite this worrying trend, I do respect the work you guys have done.
Thank you

You can read my response if you like:

Spoiler: Show

I think I've seen the posts that are causing your concern. First of all, fear not, OpenMW will never include art assets and it's not as though we would host some sort of "Skywind Asset Pack" on our site without permission.

I'm not sure what your idea of how anyone intends to "steal" your assets would be. Feel free to elaborate on that point.

I think one person you mentioned was just wanting to try importing some Skywind assets into OpenMW for their own personal amusement/curiosity. If you have a problem with private usage of the assets outside of the Skywind project, you'll need to put such a disclaimer on your site along with the download (forgive me if it's already there and I didn't see it in my quick scan of the website).

By "liberate" I think the individual in question meant something along the lines of "See if the Skywind devs would be willing to have their assets reorganized into a package that could be downloaded separately and used with this free, open-source engine of ours rather than requiring the proprietary Skyrim engine".

But that was just my interpretation, I do not intend to put words in other people's mouths. This isn't really the proper channel for this sort of discussion. I will voice your initial concern on the forums. But, if you have anything else to say, the best thing to do would be make an account on our forums and say it there.

Thank you as well for your continued work in your own project. Some of the screenshots/videos I've seen have been very impressive. I hope any tension between our communities can be resolved with due haste.

Feel free to speak for yourselves in reply to the comment on YouTube (found in the 0.27 video) or here. Hopefully Ravanna comes by to say hi. I think there was a misunderstanding here, but how should I know what anyone was planning on doing?