Bringing OpenMorrowind into the future

[Nerevar]

Ok first, let's be honest

Morrowind is one of the best games of all time

OpenMW brings it up to date comparable to newer games

it already works on every platform with little effort

What's left in my opinion, are improving on the things
that will lend themselves to scalability

I installed morrowind again the other day to try out
the new 0.47 openMW, and was floored by all of it's
changes, but found a lot of general issues that seem
like no brainers to work towards resolving



Having a standard library of pluginless mods
textures, bodies, faces, hairs, sky, in a single package
is a good baseline to start building the game off of,
and something I couldn't find anywhere.

Nexusmods does a poor job of hosting mods, since
you have to wait for the "free" download and have to jump
through hoops to pick out all the mods you want each time
you reinstall, and they wont host everything to begin with

Then there are perhaps tons of little websites with mods
for morrowind you have to spend hours searching for,
and many have broken/gone offline/have bad links, and
these deserve to be searched out and archived somewhere

Then there is portability, it should be simpler to install openMW
and move it to a new operating system/hardrive without having
to spend hours searching out all the obscure links for your specific
operating system, and figuring out how to get it working,
there should be a single directory where everything gets
installed to, so it can easily be moved around with no hassle

Game mechanics, and balancing issues, are a complete and total
after thought after the fundamental foundation is built for, a morrowind
of the future.

After all this time I'm really surprised we don't have a website listing
servers to join where we could start playing with other
people with some basic common customization that is simple point
and click to install.

It would be nice to work out configurations/specs/balancing and mechanics
in ONLINE morrowind that has a good customized baseline to work off of
as opposed to straight vanilla, and as opposed to single player.

I love OpenMW, it is truly amazing, and easily the most impressive mod
I have ever seen for any game, and I think it could take morrowind
to a place that is better than most other games out there frankly.

[AnyOldName3]

Bringing OpenMorrowind into the future

For trademark reasons, it's OpenMW.

Having a standard library of pluginless mods
textures, bodies, faces, hairs, sky, in a single package
is a good baseline to start building the game off of,
and something I couldn't find anywhere.

This is a much bigger deal to create than you've suggested. We used to have the Morrowind Original Asset Replacement project as a side thing, but it made very little progress, and unlike replacing the engine, there are copyright issues here - if you change a duplicate asset enough to not count as a derivative work, it's likely to look bad when placed into the game, or cause other problems like blocking corridors due to a different collision box.

Nexusmods does a poor job of hosting mods, since
you have to wait for the "free" download and have to jump
through hoops to pick out all the mods you want each time
you reinstall, and they wont host everything to begin with

It's expensive to run a fast file hosting service, and we're not in a position to do better than the Nexus at that.

Then there is portability, it should be simpler to install openMW
and move it to a new operating system/hardrive without having
to spend hours searching out all the obscure links for your specific
operating system, and figuring out how to get it working,
there should be a single directory where everything gets
installed to, so it can easily be moved around with no hassle

This is improved on the master branch, so if you get a dev build from our downloads page instead of the 0.47 release from last year, you can make a portable installation.

Game mechanics, and balancing issues, are a complete and total
after thought after the fundamental foundation is built for, a morrowind
of the future.

We're an engine replacement, not a remaster, and any change like this is subjective, so would upset some people if it were the default. It's much better to leave these things up to mods, and we're developing an extended modding API compared to the original engine so mods will finally be able to make changes here they've never been able to before.

After all this time I'm really surprised we don't have a website listing
servers to join where we could start playing with other
people with some basic common customization that is simple point
and click to install.

This is a TES3MP thing, not an OpenMW thing, and TES3MP does have a masterlist of servers including everyone who wants to show up on the masterlist (but also doesn't want to see the entire Jewish population exterminated - they've had problems with neonazis in the past).

[davidcernat]

After all this time I'm really surprised we don't have a website listing
servers to join where we could start playing with other
people with some basic common customization that is simple point
and click to install.

Have you tried using the TES3MP server browser?